Josh Lucas is a 44-year-old American actor known for his diverse roles. He is great in melodramas ("Style"), and in thrillers ("Ste alth"), and in biographical dramas ("J. Edgar").
Childhood and youth
The future actor was born in the town of Little Rock, in Arkansas. His father was an ambulance doctor, his mother was a nurse. Lucas had a brother and younger sisters.
The boy spent his entire childhood on the road, as his parents considered themselves hippies and fought against the construction of nuclear power plants. During the thirteen years of his life, Josh managed to live in South America, but in general, the family moved from place to place about thirty times.
But in the end they settled in Washington, where the young man received his school diploma.
Despite such a seemingly unstable childhood, Lucas always had many friends, he was a very sociable and open guy. Perhaps these traits of his character played an important role in choosing a future profession.
During his school years, Josh Lucas was fond of sports, but not to the same extent as theatrical art. You can saythat it was a disease. He appeared in every school play and never missed major theater premieres in the city.
The result of this love was the decision not to go to college, like all children, but to go to conquer Hollywood.
Career start
Probably some lucky star led the actor. He was nineteen, he came to California alone, with virtually no money, did not know where to start … Usually, this is how the stories of novice actors sound. But the continuation is not always optimistic. Josh Lucas almost immediately found a job, however, not in the cinema, but on television.
For the first few years he occasionally starred in serials, but there were roles in the full meter. For example, one of his first works is "Child of Darkness, Child of Light" in 1991.
Until the early 2000s, his roles were subtle and bright, although he starred in "American Psycho" with Christian Bale.
Josh Lucas, whose photos have often begun to appear in the tabloids, was a partner of such famous actors as Patrick Swayze, Ethan Hawke, John Malkovich. The experience with them was invaluable. In addition, he became close friends with Steven Spielberg, who was the producer of the movie Class of '61, which starred Lucas.
Lucas lived in Australia for almost a year working on Cold River. The project had good ratings, but Josh Lucas himself refused to renew his contract, citing the fact that he misses his home.
The roles that were offered to the actor in Hollywood stoppedsatisfy his ambitions. The directors saw in him only a student. To prove his competence to them, Lucas went to New York, where he took acting lessons and also participated in some theatrical productions.
And success was not long in coming.
Recognition
In 2001, the film "A Beautiful Mind" was released, where Josh got a serious, but small role. The following year, he landed the lead role in a melodrama with Reese Witherspoon. Well, then everything went like clockwork. Josh, being already popular, could choose the roles he liked.
In 2006, he starred in the sports drama Road to Glory. Lucas played the coach of an unknown basketball team. Thanks to a fanatical attitude to his work, faith in the players, he has achieved incredible success. The peculiarity of the film was that it is based on real events, the action takes place in 1966, and all the players are black (which was nonsense for that time).
The actor was considered for a role in The Dark Knight, which ended up with Aaron Eckhart.
Josh Lucas, whose filmography currently includes thirty-four films, is currently filming in the series Laura Mysteries in one of the main roles.
Among his recent films are "Youth in Oregon", "Dear Eleanor", another film called "I Fought the Law" is about to be released.
Private life
New York is realan actor's haven. He just loves this city. But he also likes to be in nature, so he has a small house on the territory of the Grand Canyon.
Josh Lucas, whose personal life was always in sight, does not really like such attention to his person. Journalists call him very secretive.
The most they could find out was about Josh's early romances with Selma Hayek and Rachel McAdams.
For a long time, the actor met with Jessica Henriquez, whom he secretly married in 2012. A few months later, the couple had their first child, son Noah.
In 2014, it became known that the couple were divorcing.
