Lucas Hedges (born December 12, 1996) is an American actor.[2][3] 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 as Ennis Del Mar in a West End theatre production of Brokeback Mountain.
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American drama film written and directed by Peter Hedges, and starring Julia Roberts, LucasHedges and Courtney B. Vance. The plot follows a mother who...
following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actor LucasHedges. He is known for his roles in the films Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Kill...
produced with Kerry Kohansky Roberts and Steve Golin. The film stars LucasHedges as Jared Eamons, a fictionalized version of Conley, the closeted gay...
inspired by Hill's own childhood in the mid-1990s. It stars Sunny Suljic, LucasHedges and Katherine Waterston, and follows a 13-year-old boy who begins spending...
in the stage adaptation of Brokeback Mountain as Jack Twist, opposite LucasHedges as Ennis Del Mar, in May 2023. The production received mixed reviews...
Netflix. On stage, Fairn appeared in 2023 in the West End alongside LucasHedges and Mike Faist in a production of Brokeback Mountain at the SoHo Place...
Motion Picture Drama for his performance. In the play, he is portrayed by LucasHedges. "Ennis Del Mar" literally translates as "Island of the Sea": Ennis is...
J. Novak and produced by FXP. In May 2020, FX picked up the series. LucasHedges, Kaitlyn Dever, Jon Bernthal, and Boyd Holbrook were cast for pilot episodes...
the film, which co-stars LucasHedges and Tracy Letts, Pfeiffer played a widow who moves to Paris, France, with her son (Hedges) and cat, who happens to...
Gilliam, starring Christoph Waltz, David Thewlis, Mélanie Thierry and LucasHedges. Written by Pat Rushin, the story is about Qohen Leth (Waltz), a reclusive...
on Forbes 30 under 30 List. Smith also appeared in New York, opposite LucasHedges, in the Off-Broadway stage production of Yen by playwright Anna Jordan...
character, Sandy, is a girlfriend of Patrick Chandler, portrayed by LucasHedges. She practiced her character's Boston accent by working with a dialect...
screenplay he wrote with the film Mid90s (2018) starring Sunny Suljic, LucasHedges, and Katherine Waterston. which premiered at the Toronto International...
in previews, officially on October 25. The cast included Elaine May, LucasHedges, Joan Allen, Michael Cera, and David Cromer. The revival was directed...
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