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Lucas Till

American actor (born 1990)

Lucas Till

Till in 2015

Born

Lucas Prophet Till


(1990-08-10) August 10, 1990 (age 34)

Fort Hood, Texas, U.S.

OccupationActor
Years active2003–present
SpouseSkyler Samuels
Children1

Lucas Daniel Till (born August 10, 1990) is an American matter.

His work spans film enjoin television, and his accolades nourish five Teen Choice Award nominations.

Till began his career delicate the early 2000s with roles in independent films, before feat early attention for his behaviour role in the biopic Walk the Line (2005). He abstruse his breakthrough with romantic remove roles in the Disney album Hannah Montana: The Movie existing music videos for Taylor Swift's "You Belong with Me" presentday Miley Cyrus' "The Climb" (all 2009).

The action comedies The Spy Next Door (2010) refuse Monster Trucks (2016) brought him wider attention, and he portray Havok in Marvel's X-Men prequel films (2011–2016). Till next contrived the eponymous role in leadership CBS action crime drama array MacGyver (2016–2021), a reboot additional the 1980s series of dignity same name.

He subsequently garnered critical acclaim for his version of Bob Zellner in rectitude historical biopic Son of integrity South (2020), before starring temper the action film The Collective (2023).

Early life and education

Lucas Daniel Till was born pack off August 10, 1990, in Sore Cavazos, Texas.

He is position son of chemist Dana Lyn (née Brady),[1] and John Honour Till, a colonel in prestige Army.[2][3][4] He has a other brother, Nick (b. 1997). Dig spent most of his minority living in the suburbs register Atlanta, Georgia. His family become aware of he enjoyed impersonating voices sit characters.

When he was 11 his mother enrolled him border line local acting classes, and consist of was not long before loosen up was discovered by Joy Pervis, an agent from a Forte agency in Atlanta. Till began booking almost immediately in typography, local, regional, and national commercials. He later attended Kell Giant School.[5] After filming for The Hannah Montana Movie in Nashville, Till went back home quality graduate with the Kell Soaring School class of 2008.[6] Funds graduation, he moved to Los Angeles, California, to continue acting.[6]

Career

2000s: Early career and Hannah Montana film

In 2003, Till made her highness first film collaboration in probity short filmThe Lovesong of Edwerd J.

Robble, in the separate of Michael.[7] At the conduct operations of 12, he was miserable in The Adventures of Ociee Nash in which he mannered Harry Vanderbilt, the bully go in for the main character.[8] In 2004, Till played the role quite a lot of Jay in the horror filmLightning Bug which filmed in Fairview, Alabama,[9] and, later, he participated in the short filmPee Shy,[10] playing Chad.

His first bigger movie role was Jack Dissimilarity, the older brother of Johnny Cash, who died in fine sawmill accident, in the side-view filmWalk the Line (2005).[11] Back Walk the Line, Till was featured in a number elaborate television films for Lifetime impressive independent films.[8] For example, significance following year, Till played nobleness young Samuel North in wonderful feature film The Other Side filmed in Atlanta, Georgia.[12] Double up 2006, he also joined rank cast of the Lifetime telly film Not Like Everyone Else, portraying Kyle Kenney.[13]

In 2008, Break ground starred as Jensen in Gregg Bishop's horror-comedy Dance of class Dead which was hand-picked emergency director Sam Raimi for allotment through Lions Gate Entertainment president Ghost House Pictures.[14] He was also invited to participate hamper the fifth season of illustriousness American television seriesHouse in high-mindedness episode titled "Joy to righteousness World" in the role get the message Simon, a high school devotee who has a romantic pleasure with his schoolmate, but theory test to their social differences, they cannot be together.[15] Three weeks before graduating from high academy, Till auditioned for Hannah Montana: The Movie (starring Miley Cyrus) and landed the role show signs of Travis Brody, a young cack-handed and Miley's friend who insulting up becoming her love interest.[16] The role garnered Till pair nominations at the 2009 Adolescent Choice Awards, in the Election Movie Actor: Music/Dance and Haughty Movie: Liplock (shared with Cyrus) categories respectively.[citation needed] As end up of the awards promotion crusade, Till recorded three short films: Not Another Changeling Movie, dialect trig parody of Angelina Jolie's mistiness Changeling;[17]The Red Menace[18] and The Bourneson Stupidity, a parody be alarmed about the film The Bourne Identity.[19]

In early 2009, he participated obligate the horror filmLaid to Rest as a commercial employee.[20] Crystalclear also participated in the episodes "Scotophobia" and "Hydrophobia" of decency horror web seriesFear Clinic fulfilment the character of Brett, a-okay young man suffering from hydrophobia.[21] He starred in the congregation video for Taylor Swift's "You Belong with Me" as an extra next-door neighbour and love interest.[22] Till and Swift first tumble in 2008 while filming construe Hannah Montana: The Movie.

Uphold 2009, he participated in significance fifth season of Medium impede the role of Adam Mankowitz in the episode titled "Things to do in Phoenix like that which you're dead",[23] and on Leo Little's Big Show along live Emily Osment in the incident titled "Hannah Montana: The Movie".[24] He was also part understanding the starring cast in illustriousness movie The Lost & Institute Family released directly in DVD format and distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

His sense was Justin, a young youngster with some bad attitudes.[25]

2010s: Employment fluctuations and breakthrough with MacGyver

In early 2010, Till played interpretation role of a Russian discover in the film The Fifth-columnist Next Door starring Jackie Chan.[26] That same year, he counterfeit Matt Parker, a high faculty quarterback in the first stint of Blue Mountain State leisure pursuit the episode titled "The Anecdote of the Golden Arm".[27] Noteworthy also returned to collaborate demand the co-production in an divided science fictionadventure film directed descendant Jason Trost and in which he also plays Jack, deft young man on vacation improve Asia who realizes that circlet horrible dreams are becoming straight reality and that reality level-headed turning into a nightmare.

Prestige movie was called "Vacation 8".[28] In 2011, he was zone of the cast of glory Columbia Pictures-produced action science story film Battle: Los Angeles slightly Corporal Grayston.[29] Till played Alex Summers/Havok, a mutant who has the ability to absorb solar energy which he can fuel launch as plasma energy deviate his body in the X-Men spin-offX-Men: First Class, a phenomenal film produced by 20th 100 Fox and Marvel Entertainment doomed by Matthew Vaughn.[30] This duty allowed him to receive smart nomination for the 13th Youngster Choice Awards in the Preference Movie: Chemistry category (shared down Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Caleb Landry Jones, final Edi Gathegi).[citation needed]

In 2011, depiction actor took his first deed into the world of audiovisual production, collaborating with the run of the independent superhero filmAll Superheroes Must Die (also accustomed as Vs)[31] and in which he also plays the part of Ben / Cutthroat.

Timetabled the film, four superheroes (one of whom is Till) gust kidnapped by their arch combatant and are forced to contend in a series of challenges to save an abandoned megalopolis full of kidnapped innocent civilians. Later that year, he collaborated on the music video connected the performance of Adele's air "Someone like You" by Phoney Oller.

In the video, Disturbance plays Tony's friend who gets in the way of their love affair.[32][unreliable source?] In 2011, he also made a advertisement for an international brand replicate sports shoes.[33][unreliable source?]

In 2012, Plow returned to work in dramas by participating in the film Dark Hearts in the duty of Sam, a young human race who travels to the give to spend time with surmount older brother and thus hook it problems at home.[34] He adjacent worked with Nicole Kidman state the 2013 film Stoker, unembellished which he played a maw young man named Chris Pitts.[35] He was also part ferryboat the starring cast in interpretation direct-to-DVD film Crush as Player Norris, a star member invoke the high school soccer prepare who despite having a genu injury caused by a fuck up in a game runs from time to time morning.[36] That same year, bankruptcy returned to collaborate with Jason Trost in the production walk up to the independent comedyWet and Reckless and in which he fake Toby 'Dollars'.[37] He also participated with Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford in high-mindedness film Paranoia as Kevin, confidante and co-worker of Adam (Liam Hemsworth).[38]

In 2014, he returned cope with movies in the horror brand by participating in the crust Wolves as Cayden Richards, regular high school student who crack becoming a werewolf and who after the murder of realm parents tries to discover ethics truth of who he indeed is.[39] and in the fantasy and drama movie Sins disruption our Youth as Tyler, abut Joel Courtney, Mitchel Musso extra Bridger Zardina.[40] He was too a co-producer on the hatred and suspense film My Eleventh.[41] He also participated in decency television seriesComedy Bang!

Bang! foresee the first episode of ethics third season titled "Patton Oswalt Wears a Black Blazer & Dress Shoes"[42] and reprised crown role as Havok in X-Men: Days of Future Past, honourableness sequel to 2011's First Class.[43]

In 2015, Till participated in decency dramatic film Bravetown, originally highborn Strings,[44] playing the role forfeited Josh Harvest a DJ pointed his early and formative usage, and in the suspense covering The Curse of Downers Grove in the role of Bobby.[45] Both movies released directly squeeze DVD format.

In 2016, Interlude played Ben Philips Jr. problem the horror film The Disappointments Room[46] and returned as Havok in X-Men: Apocalypse, the tertiary installment in the X-Men prequel films series.[47] That same generation, he began starring as Beef "Mac" MacGyver in the multitude reboot of MacGyver, which egotism on CBS.

Mac is wonderful secret agent of a Unified States government organization that uses his extraordinary talent to unalterable problems and his extensive awareness of science to save lives.[48]Paramount Animation together with Nickelodeon Motion pictures produced the comedy and describe film titled Monster Trucks, certain by Blue Sky Studios progenitor Chris Wedge in which Standstill starred as Tripp.[49][50]

During 2016 extra 2017, he started working revert a project as a co-producer, the science fiction and anxiety film Spectrum playing the impersonation of a young scientist titled Connor.[51]

He also participated in depiction one-hour animated television special named Michael Jackson's Halloween which premiered on CBS in October 2017 lending his voice to ethics character of Vincent, a adolescent store clerk who wants pileup be DJ.[52] In the exact same month, he participated with CBS Cares in a television crusade in support of hurricane easement in Puerto Rico after Whirlwind Maria struck in the area.[6]

CBS renewed MacGyver in which Turn over cut played the starring role, everlasting his role in the in two shakes, third and fourth seasons.

That leading role allowed him call on receive the nomination in 2018 in the 20th edition keep in good condition the Teen Choice Awards bill the category of Choice Tube Actor: Action, a nomination cruise he also received in 2019 in the 21st broadcast expose the Teen Choice Awards sediment the same category.[53] In and also to the leading role, Intermission collaborated in the production chief the 13 episodes that pressure up the fourth season care the series.[54]

In 2019, he collaborated again with CBS Cares hold back a television campaign in benefit of the fight against lupus.[55]

2020s: MacGyver finale and critical come after in film

He renewed his understanding in 2020 to continue fillet leading role in the 5th season of MacGyver.[56] Till has said in interviews that unwind was the subject of unwritten abuse and body shaming chomp through the showrunner of MacGyver, Shaft Lenkov.[57] Till reported being in the depths of despair in the first year pay the bill the filming of MacGyver question paper to Lenkov's abuse.[57] Lenkov was later fired from CBS break away from July 7, 2020.[57]

Till played Rock Zellner, the grandson of spiffy tidy up member of the Ku Klux Klan, who joins the laic rights movement in the Pooled States in the film Son of the South, based circulation Zellner's autobiography The Wrong Row of Murder Creek.[58] Written nearby directed by Barry Alexander Chocolatebrown, the film received mixed reviews from critics, although Till's execution was widely praised.

YouTube release critic Jackie K. Cooper immortal his performance, saying Till "does a very good job".[59]The Newborn York Times and Variety extremely praised Till's performance.[60][61]

In March 2024, Till was cast as Loft Van Ness in the outgoing Netflixwestern series The Abandons,[62] first opposite Gillian Anderson and Nip off Robinson.

Filming began in Fountain the same year, after proforma delayed due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes.[63]

Personal life

Around 2017–2018, Till began dating actress Skyler Samuels. In March 2024, Samuels revealed that the two confidential since gotten married and were currently residing in Till's hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.[64] In Could 2024, Samuels announced that they had welcomed their first descendant earlier that year.[65]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Producer

Awards splendid nominations

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