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Lucas Hedges

Actor

Lucas Hedges

Born December 12, 1996 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA25 films

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.

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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 in a West End theatre production of Brokeback Mountain.

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri posterFirst watchThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri20178.1as RobbieAfter seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
The Grand Budapest Hotel poster8.0The Grand Budapest Hotel2014Moonrise Kingdom poster7.7Moonrise Kingdom2012Lady Bird poster7.2Lady Bird2017Manchester by the Sea poster7.5Manchester by the Sea2016mid90s poster7.5mid90s2018Labor Day poster7.1Labor Day2013Boy Erased poster7.0Boy Erased2018Waves poster7.4Waves2019

Filmography

25 films as actor
  1. TBALove Is Not the AnswerDirector Jay
  2. TBAOld Friends New Friends
  3. 2025Sorry, BabyGavin
  4. 2024ShirleyRobert Gottlieb
  5. 2021French ExitMalcolm Price
  6. 2020Let Them All TalkTyler Hughes
  7. 2020This Is Our YouthWarren Straub
  8. 2020HorsegirlDavid Horse
  9. 2019WavesLuke
  10. 2019Honey BoyOtis Lort (22 Years Old)
  11. 2018Ben Is BackBen Burns
  12. 2018mid90sIan
  13. 2018Boy ErasedJared Eamons
  14. 2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriRobbie
  15. 2017Lady BirdDanny O'Neill
  16. 2017PigeonheartsEli
  17. 2016Manchester by the SeaPatrick Chandler
  18. 2016AnesthesiaGreg
  19. 2014Kill the MessengerIan Webb
  20. 2014The Grand Budapest HotelPump Attendant
  21. 2013Labor DayRichard
  22. 2013The Zero TheoremBob
  23. 2012Arthur NewmanKevin Avery
  24. 2012Moonrise KingdomRedford
  25. 2007Dan in Real LifeLilly's Dance Partner