Basic Information About Josh Lucas
Category | Celebrities βΊ Actors |
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Professions | Actor, Film Producer, Cinematographer, Voice Actor |
Net worth | $8,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1971-06-20 (53 years old) |
Place of birth | Little Rock |
Nationality | United States of America |
Curiosities and Trademarks | piercing blue eyes |
Spouse | 17 March - Jessica Ciencin Henriquez (Β 2012 - 24 OctoberΒ 2014)Β (divorced)Β (1 child) |
Gender | Male |
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.82 m) |
Social Media | βοΈ Wikipedia βοΈ IMDb |
Famous Network of Actors with Similar Net Worth
What Movie Awards did Josh Lucas win?
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Josh Lucas roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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Secondhand Lions | Adult Walter |
The Forever Purge | |
The Secret: Dare to Dream | Bray |
American Psycho | Craig McDermott |
Ford v Ferrari | Leo Beebe |
Hulk | Talbot |
A Beautiful Mind | Hansen |
Sweet Home Alabama | Jake Perry |
The Lincoln Lawyer | Ted Minton |
Poseidon | Dylan Johns |
Alive | Felipe Restano (as Joshua Lucas) |
Life as We Know It | Sam |
J. Edgar | Charles Lindbergh |
Breakthrough | Brian Smith |
She Dies Tomorrow | Doc |
Thinner | Male Nurse (uncredited) |
Wonderland | Ron Launius |
Glory Road | Don Haskins |
You Can Count on Me | Rudy Sr. |
Session 9 | Hank |
Stealth | Lt. Ben Gannon |
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Charlie Bates |
Stolen | Vincent |
An Unfinished Life | Crane Curtis |
The Most Hated Woman in America | David Waters |
Boychoir | Gerard |
Red Dog | John |
Will & Grace | Self 1 episode, 2006 |
Made in Hollywood | Self 1 episode, 2020 |
In the Heat of the Night | Todd Walker 1 episode, 1994 |
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | Forensic Scientist / ... 3 episodes, 2015-2017 |
The Talk | Self 2 episodes, 2018-2021 |
The Mysteries of Laura | Jake Broderick 38 episodes, 2014-2016 |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self 1 episode, 2017 |
The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self 1 episode, 2019 |
Watch What Happens: Live | Self 1 episode, 2015 |
Snowy River: The McGregor Saga | Luke McGregor 15 episodes, 1994-1995 |
The Daily Show | Self - Guest 1 episode, 2006 |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self - Guest 4 episodes, 2005-2012 |
Yellowstone | Young John Dutton 4 episodes, 2018-2019 |
Cracker | Lt. Macy 3 episodes, 1999 |
Access Hollywood | Self 1 episode, 2018 |
Life Goes On | Dylan 1 episode, 1990 |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest 2 episodes, 2003-2006 |
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Self - Guest 1 episode, 2010 |
Josh Lucas's Quotes
- [regarding moving so many times as a child] I would lie in bed the night before a new school and decide who I was going to be. It would usually be based on someone I admired from the school before.
- "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." Interview with Steve Head, September 24, 2002.
- (2015, on Undertow) It's a pretty amazing film. It's flawed and dark and troubled, but it's somewhat based on a true story that Terrence Malick had heard from a child. My understanding is that they found the child dead the day he had called Malick while working in a runaway shelter. Malick had worked on the script for years and then when he saw George Washington, he gave it to Green and we made this tiny budget movie I think really is Southern gothic at its best. The character was horribly difficult to play because he's a man who basically kills his own children. For me, it was a real artistic, psychological experience because I was trying to figure out what kind of mind could do this. Trying to figure out how to make that character anything other than what he could've been on paper: a violent monster.
- (2015, on Glory Road) It's my favorite film of my career. There's multiple reasons as to why, but primarily it was the experience of making it. I had not only the real Don Haskins, who was a mentor to me before and after the film, but then I had people like Pat Riley as my technical advisor. And we had this group of actors, many of whom had never really acted before. They were basketball players who were doing some acting, and I was put in a position by the director of the movie to be the coach; to deal with them and coach them, and be, in a sense, in charge of the acting from these guys. Every day I felt this responsibility to do the Disney version of that story-the true story is much darker-but we were very much making a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, and that's what Don Haskins wanted. We had a lot of tools from a financial standpoint to tell a wonderful story of a breakthrough in American racial relations.Then, the best publicity tour of my life was these guys on Jerry Bruckheimer's private airplane, going from one town to the other showing the movie. Every single night that movie would get a standing ovation. Then we would have this crazy party and we'd get back on Jerry's airplane with this group of basketball actors and go to the next party. And they would find girls.There was a weird moment where we showed the movie in El Paso, Texas, to the real basketball players in the original story. And they did not like it at all. They felt like I completely missed how badass Don Haskins really was... I was really upset and sad about it. Then Don Haskins came to me and said, "Fuck those guys. You did exactly what I wanted you to do. You did the version that I wanted for the kids." And then all those guys really came around to the movie, and they felt like the movie existed on its own.
- (2015, on J. Edgar) Look, I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely wrote a letter to Clint Eastwood saying, "Hey man, I'm a fan and I would be an extra in your movie." Because of it, through his casting team, asked me whether I would be interested in auditioning for the part of Lindbergh. Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections. My grandmother was called a WASP. She was one of the first pilots in the United States. She flew with Amelia Earhart and was in love with Lindbergh. She flew in the war and commercially, so I felt there was a great symmetry for me to play this man. It's just one of those moments where it all started to make sense again. I think the movie is actually fascinating, because here you have one of the great rogue, Republican male figures of heterosexuality, Clint Eastwood, making this weird little gay love story. It's an eccentric film that's trying to tell this story of a clearly fucked-up man. I don't think Eastwood is going back and analyzing his movies. He's fearlessly creating, and has built himself an empire that allows him to jump from movie to movie to movie. I found him to be childlike and full of sparkle and joy of film.
Interesting Facts about Josh Lucas
- Decided not to go to college in order to pursue his acting career.
- Filmed his part in Wonderland (2003) in seven days.
- His parents organized campaigns against nuclear power plants and, for his safety, moved 30 times before he was 13 years old.
- Graduated from Gig Harbor High School in Gig Harbor, Washington, in 1989.
- Older brother of Devin Maurer.
- Born in Arkansas in 1971 and christened Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer. His parents lived on an Native American reservation, and they named him based on things that happened there. His birth was so easy that the doctor hit his head on the bedpost and injured himself.
- Parents were hippie activists who moved more than 30 times before he was 13.
- Was injured severely enough to be hospitalized twice during the filming of Poseidon (2006). First, co-star Kurt Russell accidentally hit him with a flashlight in the right eye during an underwater swimming sequence and the resulting cut required 16 stitches and several days off. The second and more serious injury occurred on the next-to-last day of filming when Josh fell 15-20 feet and tore ligaments and muscles in his left thumb, which required a 5-hour surgery to reattach the muscle and 6-8 weeks in a cast. He is still undergoing physical therapy and rehab to get more movement back in his thumb.
- Also has two sisters. One of whom, along with Josh, is in the research and planning stages of starting up Mighty's Fast Food, a restaurant that will promote healthier fare and use of organic, local produce.
- Parents are Don and Michelle (LeFevre) Maurer. Father is an emergency room doctor; mother is a nurse and midwife. Michelle attended Emerson College with Jay Leno.
- Announced the formation of his own production company, "2 Bridges Productions", with his brother, Devin Maurer, as a co-producer and creative partner. [2006]
- Was considered for the role of Captain Christopher Pike in Star Trek: The Future Begins (2009). However, Bruce Greenwood was cast instead.
- Studied acting with Michael Howard in New York City.
- He and his wife Jessica are expecting their first child, due in late 2012.
- Son, Noah Rev Maurer, was born on June 29, 2012 in New York City, weighing in at 9 lbs. 4 oz.
- Appeared in 2 unrelated movies both called "Stolen". One film was released in 2009 and the other in 2012.
- Attended Kopachuck Middle School in Gig Harbor, Washington.
- Appearing off-Broadway in "Fault Lines" alongside Noah Emmerich and Dominic Fumusa at the Cherry Lane Theater. [October 2008]
- Appearing as "The Gentleman Caller" in "The Glass Menagerie" on Broadway with 'Jessica Lange', Sarah Paulson and Christian Slater. [January 2005]
- He is the voice on the Home Depot commercials.
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