American actor
Son of Susan Bruce (Titman), a poet, and Peter Hedges , a writer, director, novelist, and playwright.
His paternal grandfather, The Rev. Robert Boyden Hedges, was an Episcopalian minister, and his maternal great-grandfather, The Rev. Dr. V. Carney Hargroves, was president of the Baptist World Alliance.
As of 2017, he has appeared in two films that have been Oscar-nominated for Best Picture: The Grand Budapest Hotel and Manchester by the Sea .
He is the first male aged 25 or under to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting since Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain (age at the time of nomination).
Hedges and Dev Patel are the first and, as of 2017, the only males born in the 1990s to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting (both were nominated for Best Supporting Actor for 2016 films, Hedges for Manchester by the Sea and Patel for Lion ).
Is of English, German, and Scots-Irish descent.
Lucas was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Manchester by the Sea 13 years after his father, Peter Hedges, was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay for About a Boy .
Ask his Manchester by the Sea co-star Anna Baryshnikov to prom but was turned down by her because she was 22 at that time.
You learn from doing and you learn from experiencing what it feels like,to be present and lost in the moment with another artist.
I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation.
