Lucas Hedges

Acting · Born 1996-12-12 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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…

Filmography

• Moonrise Kingdom as Redford
• Manchester by the Sea as Patrick Chandler
• The Grand Budapest Hotel as Pump Attendant
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Robbie
• Lady Bird as Danny O'Neill
• Labor Day as Richard
• mid90s as Ian
• Boy Erased as Jared Eamons
• Waves as Luke
• Honey Boy as Otis Lort (22 years old)

TV

• The Premise as Jesse Wheeler
• Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
• The Slap as Ritchie
• Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Westley
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
• The American Revolution as (voice)