Lucas Hedges
CountryUnited States 
GenderMale
BirthdayDec 12, 1996
BiographyLucas Hedges (born December 12, 1996) is an American actor. A son of filmmaker Peter Hedges, he studied theater at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Hedges began his acting career with a supporting role in Wes Anderson's comedy-drama Moonrise Kingdom (2012). He had his breakthrough in 2016 playing a sardonic teenager in Kenneth Lonergan's drama Manchester by the Sea, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, among other accolades. Hedges then starred as an aggressive youth in an off-Broadway production of Yen and had supporting roles in the coming-of-age film Lady Bird and the drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in 2017.
In 2018, Hedges played the lead role of a teenager forced into a gay conversion therapy program in Boy Erased, which earned him nominations for both the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama and the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He also made his Broadway debut in a revival of Lonergan's drama The Waverly Gallery in the same year. In 2023, he starred as Ennis Del Mar in a West End theatre production of Brokeback Mountain.
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In 2018, Hedges played the lead role of a teenager forced into a gay conversion therapy program in Boy Erased, which earned him nominations for both the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama and the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He also made his Broadway debut in a revival of Lonergan's drama The Waverly Gallery in the same year. In 2023, he starred as Ennis Del Mar in a West End theatre production of Brokeback Mountain.
Biography from the Wikipedia article Lucas Hedges. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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