Lucas Hedges (born December 12, 1996) is an American actor. Born to the writer-director Peter Hedges, he studied theater at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Hedges began his acting career by playing supporting roles in Wes Anderson’s comedy-drama Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and the crime biopic Kill the Messenger (2014). He made his breakthrough in 2016 by playing a sardonic teenage orphan in Kenneth Lonergan's drama Manchester by the Sea, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Hedges went on to star as an aggressive youth in an off-Broadway production of Yen, and had supporting roles in the coming-of-age film Lady Bird and the crime film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (all 2017).
In 2018, Hedges played the lead role of a teenager forced into a gay conversion therapy program in Boy Erased and a drug addict in his father's drama Ben Is Back.
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