Lucas Hedges born December 12, is an American actor. Hedges began his acting career with a supporting role in Wes Anderson 's comedy-drama Moonrise Kingdom He had his breakthrough in 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 , among other accolades.
Hedges then starred 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 drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in In , Hedges played the lead role of a teenager forced into a gay conversion therapy program in Boy Erased , which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama.
He also made his Broadway debut in a revival of Lonergan's drama The Waverly Gallery in the same year. Robert Boyden Hedges, was an Episcopal minister.
His maternal grandfather was a former vice president in New York at HBO , [ 8 ] and his maternal grandmother, Narcissa Titman, is a former theatre director and lecturer. He grew up in Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill , frequently visiting his father's film sets. During a middle-school play production, Hedges was spotted by the casting director for Wes Anderson 's Moonrise Kingdom , who eventually cast him in the film as Redford.
Hedges next joined the cast of Kenneth Lonergan 's independent drama Manchester by the Sea In it, he played Patrick Chandler, a year-old boy dealing with the recent death of his father, who is left in the care of his unwilling and troubled uncle played by Casey Affleck. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The following year, Hedges made his stage debut as the lead in the Trip Cullman-directed off-Broadway play Yen , penned by the playwright Anna Jordan.
