Lucas Hedges

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 Andersons comedydrama Moonrise Kingdom 2012 He had his breakthrough in 2016 playing a sardonic teenager in Kenneth Lonergans 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 offBroadway production of Yen and had supporting roles in the comingofage 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 Lonergans drama The Waverly Gallery in the same year In 2023 he starred in a West End theatre production of Brokeback Mountain Description above from the Wikipedia article Lucas Hedges licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia