Josh Lucas

Josh Lucas

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Birth name: Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer
Date of birth: 20 June 1971
Place of birth: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Nickname: Josh
Height: 5′ 11½” (1.82 m)

Famous Quote: “I just feel like I really want to be someone who literally disappears in the role. I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn’t say for example ‘Oh, that’s Ben Affleck.’ To me, that’s just boring. It doesn’t interest me. My goal is to always have the ability at hand where I can be really good, as opposed to, eh, that’s Josh Lucas.”

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Biography:  Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer (born June 20, 1971) in Little Rock, Arkansas, is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in several Hollywood films, including Glory Road and Poseidon. Blond, blue-eyed Josh Lucas (who early in his career was billed as Joshua Lucas) has carved a niche portraying cynics, cads and ne’er-do-wells. While he yet may not have had the breakthrough role that would make him a household name. he has emerged as a fine and prolific character actor, capable of earning the audience’s sympathies or condemnation.

Lucas is the son of Michelle (née LeFevre), a nurse, and Don Maurer, an ER-doctor. At the time of his birth, his parents were living on an Indian reservation. Lucas grew up traveling the South with his parents (who were anti-nuclear activists) and younger siblings, two sisters and a brother; by the age of 13, he had lived in 30 different locations, including the Isle of Palms and Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. The family eventually settled in the lovely, small town of Gig Harbor, Washington. He attended Kopachuck Middle School. He later graduated from Gig Harbor High School in 1989. Lucas started acting in high school plays. He did not attend college, in order to pursue his acting career.

Born in Arkansas to parents in the medical professions, Lucas spent a peripatetic childhood thanks in part to his folks’ political activism. While growing up, he and his family moved more than a dozen times living in various places in the South before eventually settling outside Tacoma, Washington. During high school, Lucas nurtured his interest in dramatics and participated in statewide competitions which he won in both his junior and senior year. Eschewing college for a career, he headed to California and soon landed guest roles on various TV series including the Fox sitcom “True Colors” and the ABC family drama “Life Goes On” and his first TV-movie role in the dull horror thriller “Child of Darkness, Child of Light” (USA Network, 1991).

One of Lucas’ first, relatively unknown, feature roles was playing Jace “Flash” Dillon in the cinematic PC flight simulator Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger.[2] In the game, Lucas is the cocky test pilot of an experimental new starfighter. If the player challenges him to a simulated duel and wins, he joins the player’s flight squadron.[3]

Lucas gained mainstream exposure after his roles in Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, and as Glenn Talbot in Hulk. After displaying range, diversity, and intensity in character work for more than a decade, Josh Lucas can next be seen in Boaz Yakin’s “Death in Love.” This marks Lucas’ first feature film project since concentrating on stage, production and documentary work. Lucas will next begin production on “Management,” a biting take on the romantic comedy genre about a socially awkward man who falls hopelessly in love with an attractive but friendless woman, to be played by Jennifer Aniston. 

In the film, Lucas plays a former porn star who must give love advice to a socially awkward man. Additionally, Lucas will begin production on “6 Bullets from Now,” opposite Tim Roth. This film is a true story of five gunmen who stole more than $1 million in cash and jewels from New York’s Pierre Hotel on New Year’s Day in 1972—the largest hotel heist in history. Lucas recently completed his second collaboration with documentary film legend Ken Burns, after being involved in Burns’ “The War.” “The War” had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this year. 

Lucas’ other recent documentary work includes the multiple award-winning “Operational Homecoming,” the much anticipated “Trumbo,” and the Los Angeles Film Festival Audience Award-winning “Resolved.” Lucas has just completed his first venture into production with “The Boy in the Box,” in which he plays the single father of a mentally challenged boy. Earlier this year, Lucas was seen on stage in the commercially and critically successful off-Broadway run of “Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell.”

In 1993, Lucas made his initial foray in feature film acting as one of the rugby team members stranded in the Andes after a plane crash in “Alive”. Later that year, he made a strong impression as the young George Armstrong Custer in the TV-movie “Class of ’61″ (1993), which was executive produced by Steven Spielberg. He then headed to Australia to accept his first regular series role as Luke McGregor in “Snowy River: The McGregor Saga” (Family Channel), but for a number of reasons opted to leave after only one season, with his character going out in a heroic manner.

Back in the USA, the actor marked time in projects like “Wing Commander III: The Heart of the Tiger” (1995) and guest shots on the short-lived 1997 CBS drama “Feds”. Lucas began his string of somewhat unsympathetic characters playing the playboy lover of an American woman in China in “Restless” (1998; released theatrically in 2000) and followed up as a venal Wall Street yuppie and colleague of serial killer Patrick Bateman in “American Psycho” and as the ex-husband of a single mother in “You Can Count on Me” (both 2000). He offered a memorable turn as Darby Reese, the sleazy older lover of a teenage boy whose death begins a chain of events in “The Deep End” and was a cynical loudmouth removing asbestos from an abandoned mental hospital in “Session 9″ (both 2001). Perhaps his first, best chance (to date) to move into the consciousness of American filmgoers came as Hansen, the supercilious rival to math genius John Forbes Nash (Russell Crowe) in “A Beautiful Mind” (also 2001).

His next role was his most high-profile to date, emerging as a big screen sex symbol full of rakish charm with his turn in “Sweet Home Alabama” (2002) as the abandoned, seemingly redneck husband of Southern belle Reese Witherspoon who has reinvented herself as a Park Avenue fashion designer and needs to formally end their marriage so she can be married-of course, all sorts of romantic entanglements ensure. He next appeared in a supporting role as Bruce Banner’s (Eric Bana’s) professional and romantic rival in Ang Lee’s angst-ridden adaptation of the comic book creature “Hulk” (2003). Unselfconscious scenery chewing was a Lucas specialty in that role, a trait that carried over into his next project, “Wonderland” (2003), a recounting of the real-life 1981 drug-related murders on Los Angeles’ Wonderland Avenue in which porn legend John Holmes played a crucial role. Lucas was cast as one of the murder victim, Ron Launius, a seedy, coked-out small time hustler who never missed an opportunity to humiliate Holmes. The actor’s next effort was “Stealth” (2005), a stupefyingly lowbrow cross between “Top Gun” and “2001″ in which he was a male fighter pilot of a new generation stealth plane.

Over his career, Lucas has worked with many of the film community’s greatest talents. In the last number of years, he has starred alongside Jon Voight in Jerry Bruckheimer’s “Glory Road,” for which Lucas added 40 pounds to transform himself into legendary basketball coach, Don Haskins. This film opened in the number one spot at the box office. Lucas also starred with Kurt Russell and Richard Dreyfuss in Wolfang Petersen’s “Poseidon,” with Morgan Freeman and Robert Redford in Lasse Hallström’s “An Unfinished Life,” and opposite Jamie Bell in David Gordon Green’s “Undertow,” produced by Terrence Malick. 

Additionally, he starred alongside Christopher Walken in “Around the Bend,” with Jennifer Connelly and Eric Bana in Ang Lee’s “Hulk,” with Russell Crowe in Ron Howard’s Oscar-winning “A Beautiful Mind,” and opposite Reese Witherspoon in Disney’s smash hit “Sweet Home Alabama.” Other credits include “Wonderland,” “The Deep End,” “American Psycho,” “Session 9” and “You Can Count On Me.” And “Stealth” a movie where numerous co-stars mailed in their performances. Also in 2005, Lucas starred on Broadway opposite Jessica Lange in the revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie.” Other theater credits include Lucas originating the role of Judas in Terrence McNally’s “Corpus Christi” at MTC, Christopher Shinn’s “What Didn’t Happen” at the Mark Taper Forum and “The Picture of Dorian Grey” at the Los Angeles Theater Center.

After a cameo as the younger version of Paul Newman’s character in the award-winning miniseries, “Empire Falls” (HBO, 2005), Lucas had a supporting role alongside Newman’s old partner Robert Redford in the easily forgotten award vehicle, “An Unfinished Life” (2005). He then starred as a charismatic small town basketball coach whose will to win with heart, determination and self-respect helped break down racial barriers in the compelling and heartwarming period drama, “Glory Road” (2006). Lucas was next slated to be seen in Wolfgang Petersen’s big budget disaster flick, “Poseidon” (2006), a remake of the 1972 classic, “The Poseidon Adventure.” 

Lucas is a YouthAIDS Ambassador. He “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 ravishing and often deadly effects of this too common and easily preventable disease.”" Lucas has been mistaken for actor Matthew McConaughey in the past and bears also a physical similarity to Paul Newman. Lucas has been dating actress Alexa Davalos since 2006.

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