AKA Joshua Maurer

Born: 20-Jun-1971
Birthplace: Little Rock, AR

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Wonderland

In his childhood, Josh Lucas lived with his family near a small town in South Carolina, and had his first brush with the movie business when a film production crew rented his family's house for a few weeks. The kid was impressed, and intrigued, by show business.

His parents were anti-nuclear activists, which led to frequent relocations. In his teens, the family finally settled on tiny Fox Island, near Tacoma, Washington, where young Josh won a statewide drama competition in drama both his junior and senior years of high school.

"I started out in high school," Lucas says. "It was immediate. It was like, this is what I do. This is what I will fight for. I suffered, struggled. I was really bad at it. It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work. What I could learn about theater and the camera and all the different things."

Instead of attending drama classes, he moved to L.A., where he had no trouble landing guest spots on early-1990s shows like Life Goes On, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, and Jake and the Fatman. He had a small role in the cannibal flick Alive, and -- after belatedly taking those acting lessons -- Stephen King's wasting-away thriller, Thinner.

He has worked in progressively higher-profile films since then, including A Beautiful Mind, Wonderland, and Hulk. His niche seems to be playing young and often cynical or unsympathetic characters, but he is probably best known as Reese Witherspoon's lovable redneck husband in Sweet Home Alabama.

Girlfriend: Salma Hayek (actress, dated in 2004, briefly engaged, engagement broken off)
Girlfriend: Heather Graham (actress, dated 2004-05)

    University: Washington State University

    Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It" List Heartthrob

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Poseidon (10-May-2006)
    Glory Road (13-Jan-2006)
    An Unfinished Life (19-Aug-2005)
    Stealth (29-Jul-2005)
    Empire Falls (28-May-2005)
    Around the Bend (8-Oct-2004)
    Undertow (10-Sep-2004)
    Wonderland (8-Sep-2003)
    Secondhand Lions (05-Sep-2003)
    Hulk (17-Jun-2003)
    Sweet Home Alabama (20-Sep-2002)
    A Beautiful Mind (13-Dec-2001)
    Session 9 (10-Aug-2001)
    When Strangers Appear (21-Jul-2001)
    The Deep End (21-Jan-2001)
    The Weight of Water (9-Sep-2000)
    The Dancer (19-May-2000)
    You Can Count On Me (21-Jan-2000)
    American Psycho (21-Jan-2000)
    Cash Crop (16-Jun-1998)
    Thinner (25-Oct-1996)
    True Blue (1996)
    Father Hood (27-Aug-1993)
    Alive (15-Jan-1993)
    Child of Darkness, Child of Light (1-May-1991)

Official Website:
http://www.joshlucas.com/

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