Lucas Hedges
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Lucas Hedges is an American actor, known for playing Patrick Chandler in Manchester by the Sea (2016), which earned him an Academy Award nomination.
Hedges was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York, the second child of poet and actress Susan Bruce and Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Peter Hedges. He began regularly appearing in major films in the early 2010s, with his role as "Redford" in Wes Anderson's Vương Quốc Trăng Lên (2012), as well as Kill the Messenger (2014), Lady Bird: Tuổi Nổi Loạn (2017), and Three Billboards: Truy Tìm Công Lý (2017).
In 2018, he played the older brother in Giữa Thập Niên 90 (2018), and turned from supporting work to starring roles, giving critically-acclaimed performances in two films about young men in jeopardy, Boy Erased (2018), where he plays a teenager sent to a gay conversion therapy clinic, and Ben Is Back (2018), as a drug-addict returning home for the holidays. In 2019, he starred as a Shia LaBeouf stand-in in the biographical film Cậu Bé Đáng Thương (2019), sharing the role with Noah Jupe (despite an admitted lack of physical resemblance). He was also part of the ensemble in the highly critically-acclaimed family drama Waves (2019), and in 2020 played Michelle Pfeiffer's character's son in French Exit (2020) and the love-lorn nephew of Meryl Streep's author in Hãy Để Họ Giãi Bày (2020), both praised dramas circling the year-end awards season.
Hedges was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York, the second child of poet and actress Susan Bruce and Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Peter Hedges. He began regularly appearing in major films in the early 2010s, with his role as "Redford" in Wes Anderson's Vương Quốc Trăng Lên (2012), as well as Kill the Messenger (2014), Lady Bird: Tuổi Nổi Loạn (2017), and Three Billboards: Truy Tìm Công Lý (2017).
In 2018, he played the older brother in Giữa Thập Niên 90 (2018), and turned from supporting work to starring roles, giving critically-acclaimed performances in two films about young men in jeopardy, Boy Erased (2018), where he plays a teenager sent to a gay conversion therapy clinic, and Ben Is Back (2018), as a drug-addict returning home for the holidays. In 2019, he starred as a Shia LaBeouf stand-in in the biographical film Cậu Bé Đáng Thương (2019), sharing the role with Noah Jupe (despite an admitted lack of physical resemblance). He was also part of the ensemble in the highly critically-acclaimed family drama Waves (2019), and in 2020 played Michelle Pfeiffer's character's son in French Exit (2020) and the love-lorn nephew of Meryl Streep's author in Hãy Để Họ Giãi Bày (2020), both praised dramas circling the year-end awards season.