Lucas Hedges
Actor
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 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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Filmography
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Robbie Hayes 2017
Lady Bird
as Danny O'Neill 2017
Manchester by the Sea
as Patrick Chandler 2016
Moonrise Kingdom
as Redford 2012
mid90s
as Ian 2018
Boy Erased
as Jared Eamons 2018
Dan in Real Life
as Lilly's Dance Partner 2007
The Zero Theorem
as Bob 2013
Labor Day
as Richard 2013
Ben Is Back
as Ben Burns 2018
Kill the Messenger
as Ian Webb 2014
Waves
as Luke 2019
Honey Boy
as Otis Lort (22 years old) 2019
Let Them All Talk
as Tyler Hughes 2020
Arthur Newman
as Kevin Avery 2012
Sorry, Baby
as Gavin 2025