Josh Lucas

Lucas followed this appearance by working with executive producer Steven Spielberg and then-unknown actor Clive Owen in the TV-movie Class of '61, which follows the stories of a group of West Point cadets in 1861 as the Civil War breaks out.

Lucas played George Armstrong Custer.

Soon afterward, he made his feature film debut in Frank Marshall's Alive about a group of Uruguayan rugby players who, after crashing in the Andes mountains, resort to cannibalism to stay alive.

After a brief appearance in the Patrick Swayze comedy Father Hood, Lucas relocated to Australia to play the hotheaded American cousin Luke McGregor opposite Andrew Clarke and Guy Pearce in the first season of the family western Snowy River: The McGregor Saga.

Lucas appeared in all 13 episodes of the first season, but claimed in a later interview that despite the friendly environment, he was homesick for the United States, and his character was killed off in the second episode of season 2.

Upon returning to the States, he was still receiving offers as high school/college boyfriends and felt he was not getting the age-appropriate roles he sought.

While working with George C. Scott on a TV-movie from the In the Heat of the Night series, Scott told him he needed to take acting lessons and develop his talent for both stage and screen.

Shortly thereafter, he departed Hollywood and moved to New York City, where he studied privately with various acting coaches.

The second part of his career began with a lead role in the British rowing film True Blue (released in the US as Miracle at Oxford), in which he played a hotshot Navy rower who was recruited along with three other Americans to help Oxford win its annual boat race with Cambridge.

He followed that with relatively small roles in the dramas Minotaur and Harvest.

He took his first stab at comedy in The Definite Maybe, in which he played a recent college graduate who gets fired from his job and schemes with an old friend to purchase a house in the Hamptons.

He appeared as an American businessman in Jule Gilfillan's romantic comedy-drama Restless.

He also appeared in an off-Broadway production of Terrence McNally's controversial Corpus Christi, a retelling of the Passion, with the Jesus character (named Joshua) and his disciples all being gay.

Lucas played the role of Judas as a gay predator.

Right before the play was to open, Lucas was mugged and beaten on his way to the theater for dress rehearsal.

He played the role of Judas with bloody bandages across his broken nose and black eyes.

The audience thought the bandages were part of the play.

Following a series of operations to reset his nose, he began gathering larger roles in films like American Psycho, The Weight of Water, Session 9, The Dancer, When Strangers Appear, and You Can Count on Me.

One of Lucas' first feature roles was playing Jace "Flash" Dillon in the cinematic PC flight simulator Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger.

Lucas gained mainstream exposure after his roles in Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, and as Glenn Talbot in Hulk.

He later had leading roles in movies such as Glory Road, Poseidon, and Stealth.

In Glory Road, he starred as basketball coach Don Haskins, a role for which he gained 40 lb.

His next project was Boaz Yakin’s Death in Love.

Peacock is another film in which he starred.

Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer (born June 20, 1971) is an American actor.

Lucas was born Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer on June 20, 1971, in Little Rock, Arkansas, the son of Michele (née LeFevre), a nurse midwife, and Don Maurer, an ER doctor.

Lucas grew up traveling the South with his parents, who were antinuclear activists, and his three younger siblings.

By the age of 13, he had lived in 30 different locations, including the Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island (both in South Carolina).

His mother attended Emerson College with Jay Leno.

The family eventually settled in Gig Harbor, Washington.

He attended Kopachuck Middle School and graduated from Gig Harbor High School in 1989, where he acted in high school plays.

Lucas began his career when he was 19, having moved to Hollywood after his high school graduation.

He appeared as a guest star on several TV sitcoms in his early 20s, including Fox's True Colors and Parker Lewis Can't Lose, the family drama Life Goes On, and CBS's private-eye show Jake and the Fatman.

Other projects included the horror-thriller Child of Darkness, Child of Light, an adaptation of James Patterson's novel Virgin, a tale of two Catholic schoolgirls who find themselves pregnant under mysterious and supernatural circumstances.

He is best known for his roles in various films, including American Psycho (2000), You Can Count on Me (2000), The Deep End (2001), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Wonderland (2003), Hulk (2003), Secondhand Lions (2003), An Unfinished Life (2005), Glory Road (2006), Poseidon (2006), Life as We Know It (2010), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Red Dog (2011), J. Edgar (2011), The Mend (2014), Breakthrough (2019), Ford v Ferrari (2019), The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020) and The Forever Purge (2021).

Lucas starred in the 2009 Ridley Scott-produced Tell-Tale, a film based on the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Earlier that year, Lucas was seen on stage in the off-Broadway run of Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell.

Lucas also completed his second collaboration with documentary film maker Ken Burns, after being involved in Burns’ The War.

Lucas' other documentary work includes Operational Homecoming, Trumbo, and the Los Angeles Film Festival Audience Award-winning Resolved.

He has also appeared in television series such as The Firm (2012), The Mysteries of Laura (2014–2016), and Yellowstone (2018–2022).