Actor

Lucas Hedges

Acting

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Acting credits

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

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2.6

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Movies: 24Series: 8

TMDB ID: 1105079

IMDb ID: nm2348627

Known for: Acting

Born: December 12, 1996

Age: 29

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2007 - 2025

Years active: 19

Average TMDB rating: 6.56

Wikidata: Q17488953

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Biography

Lucas 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. 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 a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama. He also made his Broadway debut in a revival of Lonergan's drama The Waverly Gallery in the same year. In 2023, he starred in a West End theatre production of Brokeback Mountain.