Lucas Hedges, 1996
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Lucas Hedges, 1996
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Lucas Hedges is 29 years old, born December 12, 1996 in Brooklyn · Sagittarius.
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Lucas Hedges broke through as a sardonic teenager in Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester by the Sea, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Born December 12, 1996, the American actor is the son of filmmaker Peter Hedges and studied theater at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He went on to lead Boy Erased and make his Broadway debut in The Waverly Gallery, both in 2018. A Sagittarius known for playing intense, conflicted youth.
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Lucas Hedges broke through in 2016 playing a sardonic teenager in Kenneth Lonergan's drama Manchester by the Sea, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and other accolades. Born December 12, 1996, in the US, Hedges is the son of filmmaker Peter Hedges and studied theater at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His early role came in Wes Anderson's comedy-drama Moonrise Kingdom in 2012. In 2017, he appeared in the coming-of-age film Lady Bird and the drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, alongside an off-Broadway turn in Yen as an aggressive youth. In 2018, Hedges starred in the lead role of a teenager forced into a gay conversion therapy program in Boy Erased, earning nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama and the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He made his Broadway debut that same year in a revival of Lonergan's drama The Waverly Gallery. In 2023, he starred as Ennis Del Mar in a West End theatre production of Brokeback Mountain. As an actor, Hedges works across film, theater, and television, building depth through character-driven roles. Born under Sagittarius, he channels the sign's intensity and directness into morally ambiguous characters.
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Hedges studied theater at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, building the foundation for his later acting career. His early breakthrough came through supporting work, starting with a role in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom in 2012 before his major turn in Manchester by the Sea in 2016.
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Disciplined and structured. Lucas Hedges succeed where consistency beats charisma — long catalogs, repeatable craft, slow-grow audiences.
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