Who is Lucas Hedges?

Lucas Hedges is an American actor, known for playing Patrick Chandler in Manchester by the Sea (2016), which earned him an Academy Award nomination.

He began regularly appearing in major films in the early 2010s, with his role as "Redford" in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (2012), as well as Kill the Messenger (2014), Lady Bird (2017), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

In 2018, he played the older brother in Mid90s (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 Honey Boy (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 Let Them All Talk (2020), both praised dramas circling the year-end awards season.

Trivia

  • He auditioned for the role of Tom Cooper in Interstellar (2014) but lost to his Lady Bird (2017) co-star Timothée Chalamet.
  • With his Best Supporting Actor nomination for Manchester by the Sea (2016), he became the first male aged 25 or under to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting since Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain (2005) (age at the time of nomination).
  • As of 2018, he has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Manchester by the Sea (2016), Lady Bird (2017) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
  • Asked his Manchester by the Sea (2016) co-star Anna Baryshnikov to prom but was turned down by her because she was 22 at that time.
  • Nominated for the 2019 Golden Globe Award in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama category for his role as Jared Eamons in Boy Erased (2018), but lost to Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).