Josh Lucas Biography
Born: June 20, 1971
Josh Lucas was a working actor for over a decade -- which included scene-stealing performances in Alive (1993), You Can Count on Me (2000), and The_Deep_End (2001) -- before he shot to stardom with high-profile roles in A_Beautiful_Mind (2001), Sweet_Home_Alabama (2002), and The_Hulk (2003). Born in Arkansas, Lucas moved with his family to over a dozen U.S. cities before settling in Gig Harbor, WA. There, he joined his high school's competitive acting team and went on to win the state title for dramatic interpretation in both his junior and senior years. After graduation, Lucas moved directly to California where he made guest appearances on Fox's True Colors and Parker Lewis Can't Lose, ABC's Life Goes On, and CBS' Jake and the Fatman. The actor made his feature-film debut in the Ethan_Hawke vehicle Alive (1993), before appearing opposite Patrick_Swayze and Halle_Berry in Father_Hood (1993). That same year, he returned to television to portray a young Custer in the television film Class of '61 and relocated to Australia for a brief stint as Luke McGregor in The Family Channel series Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. Upon returning to the States, Lucas joined Mark_Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, and the infamous Ginger_Lynn_Allen in the cast of the video game *Wing Commander II: The Heart of the Tiger. He also continued to act on the big screen in independent films -- such as True_Blue (1996), Restless (1998), Drop_Back_Ten (1999) -- and appeared opposite Anson_Mount in the Manhattan Theater Club's production of Terrence McNally's +Corpus Christi. Soon enough, formidable parts as a banker in American_Psycho (2000), roughneck deadbeat dad in Kenneth_Lonergan's award-winning You Can Count on Me, and a doomed gay night-club owner in The_Deep_End put Lucas in the public eye. He went on to earn rave reviews as Russell_Crowe's nemesis-turned-friend in Ron_Howard's A_Beautiful_Mind, before securing the plum roles of Reese_Witherspoon's backwoods husband in Andy_Tennant's Sweet_Home_Alabama and Bruce Banner's (Eric_Bana) romantic rival in Ang_Lee's much-anticipated adaptation of The_Hulk. Aubry Anne D'Arminio, Rovi
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