Josh Lucas

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Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer (born June 20, 1971) is an American actor.

He has appeared in various films, including American Psycho, You Can Count on Me, The Deep End, A Beautiful Mind, Sweet Home Alabama, Hulk, Secondhand Lions, Stealth, An Unfinished Life, Glory Road, Poseidon, Management, Life as We Know It, The Lincoln Lawyer, J. Edgar, Red Dog, Breakthrough, and Ford v Ferrari.

His television roles include The Firm, The Mysteries of Laura, and Yellowstone.

Early life

Lucas was born Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer on June 20, 1971, in Little Rock, Arkansas, the son of Michele (née LeFevre), a nurse midwife, and Don Maurer, an ER doctor.

Lucas grew up traveling the South with his parents, who were antinuclear activists, and his three younger siblings.

By the age of 13, he had lived in 30 different locations, including the Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island (both in South Carolina). His mother attended Emerson College with Jay Leno. The family eventually settled in Gig Harbor, Washington. He attended Kopachuck Middle School and graduated from Gig Harbor High School in 1989, where he acted in high school plays.

Personal life

Lucas met freelance writer Jessica Ciencin Henriquez at a dog park in 2011. They became engaged six weeks later and married on March 17, 2012, in Central Park. Their son, Noah Rev Maurer, was born in June 2012. In January 2014, Ciencin Henriquez filed for a divorce that became final in October 2014.

A YouthAIDS Ambassador, Lucas "first joined the YouthAIDS team when he shot the ALDO HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in April, 2005. Soon after, he officially accepted his role as a YouthAIDS Ambassador at the YouthAIDS 2005 Gala, Faces of Africa. HIV/AIDS prevention is particularly important to him as his mother 'has made a career counseling young men and women with the hopes of educating them about the ravaging and often deadly effects of this too common and easily preventable disease.'"

Lucas supported President Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, volunteering to help potential voters register at colleges in Pennsylvania. Lucas knocked on doors and phone banked, wearing an Obama shirt for 45 days. He was also in Denver, Colorado, for the 2008 Democratic National Convention with a group of actors called the Creative Coalition.

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Career

Lucas began his career when he was 19 years old, after being moved to Hollywood after his high school graduation. In his early 20s, he appeared on several television sitcoms, including Fox's True Colors and Parker Lewis Can't Lose, the family drama Life Goes On, and CBS's private-eye show Jake and the Fatman.

Other projects included Child of Shadow, Child of Light, an adaptation of James Patterson's book Virgin, a story of two Catholic schoolgirls who become pregnant under unexplained and supernatural circumstances. Lucas continued his career with executive producer Steven Spielberg and then-unknown actor Clive Owen in the TV-movie Class of '61, which follows the lives of a group of West Point cadets in 1861 as the Civil War comes to an end. George Armstrong Custer was Lucas's uncle.

He made his film debut in Frank Marshall's Alive about a group of Uruguayan rugby players who, after crashing in the Andes mountains, would resort to cannibalism to stay alive. Lucas moved to Australia to play Luke McGregor opposite Andrew Clarke and Guy Pearce in the first season of the family western Snowy River: The McGregor Saga after a brief appearance in the Patrick Swayze comedy Father Hood. Lucas appeared in all 13 episodes of season one but later revealed that despite the friendly atmosphere, he was homesick for the United States, and that his character was killed off in the second episode of season 2.

When returning to the United States, he was still receiving calls as high school/college boyfriends, but felt he wasn't getting the age-appropriate roles he desired. Scott told George C. Scott that he needed to take acting lessons and develop his abilities for both stage and screen when working on his In the Heat of the Night series. He left Hollywood and moved to New York City, where he worked privately with several acting coaches.

He started his career with a leading role in the British rowing film True Blue (released in the United States as Miracle at Oxford), in which he was recruited with three other Americans to help Oxford win its annual boat race with Cambridge. He continued to play a small part in Minotaur and Harvest. In The Definite Maybe, he took his first attempt at comedy, playing a recent college graduate who is fired from his job and attempting to buy a house in the Hamptons.

In Jule Gilfillan's romantic comedy-drama Restless, he appeared as an American businessman. He appeared in an off-Broadway version of Terrence McNally's turbulent Corpus Christi, a retelling of the Passion, with the Jesus character (named Joshua) and his followers all being gay. Judas played the part of a gay predator in Judas. Lucas was mugged and beaten on his way to the theater for the dress rehearsal right before the performance was set to begin. With bloody bandages over his broken nose and black eyes, he portrayed Judas. The audience assumed that the bandages were part of the performance. Following a string of operations to resurface his nose, he began to appear in films such as American Psycho, The Weight of Water, Session 9, When Strangers Appear, and You Can Count on Me.

In the cinematic PC flight simulator Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger, one of Lucas' first film appearances was playing Jace "Flash" Dillon.

Lucas gained mainstream recognition for his appearances in Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, and as Glenn Talbot in Hulk. He appeared in films including Glory Road, Poseidon, and Stealth later in life. Don Haskins, the basketball coach, appeared in Glory Road, a position for whom he gained 40 lb (18 kg).

Boaz Yakin's Death in Love was his next project. Peacock appeared in another film in which he appeared. Lucas appeared in the Ridley Scott-produced Tell-Tale, a film based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart."

Lucas was seen on stage in Spalding Gray's off-Broadway run earlier this year: Stories Left to Tell. After being involved in Burns' The War, Lucas completed his second collaboration with documentary film maker Ken Burns. Operational Homecoming, Trumbo, and the Los Angeles Film Festival's Audience Award-winning Resolved are among Lucas' other documentary films. In February 2010, he was cast in Anders Anderson's thriller Stolen the single father of a mentally challenged boy, starring Rhona Mitra and Jon Hamm; the film had a limited theatrical release in March 2010. Lucas appears in the 2010 film Shadows and Lies alongside James Franco and Julianne Nicholson.

Lucas co-starred with Rachael Taylor in the film Red Dog, based on the true story of an Australian Kelpie. Lucas received an Inside Film Award for his work. He appeared on NBC television show The Firm, which takes place ten years after the John Grisham novel it is based on. The series lasted one season.

Lucas was the lead actor in The Mend, an independent comedy-drama. John Magary's debut at South By Southwest in March 2014, with Lucas receiving a string of good critiques for his portrayal of Mat, one of two dysfunctional brothers interacting in a tiny Harlem apartment. Lucas starred in the NBC crime drama The Mysteries of Laura from September 2014 to March 2016.

Lucas was in a recurring role in Yellowstone in 2018 as a younger version of John Dutton, portrayed by Kevin Costner.

Lucas's career also includes voice-over (or voice acting) with Breathe Bible.

Lucas, founder and promoter of Filthy Food alongside Marc and Daniel Singer, is a sponsor of the company Filthy Food company.

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