Lucas Hedges

Lucas Hedges is an American actor, known for playing Patrick Chandler in Manchester à Beira-Mar (2016), which earned him an Academy Award nomination.

Hedges was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York, the second child of poet and actress Susan Bruce and Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Peter Hedges. He began regularly appearing in major films in the early 2010s, with his role as "Redford" in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (2012), as well as O Mensageiro (2014), Lady Bird: A Hora de Voar (2017), and Três Anúncios para um Crime (2017).

In 2018, he played the older brother in Anos 90 (2018), and turned from supporting work to starring roles, giving critically-acclaimed performances in two films about young men in jeopardy, Boy Erased: Uma Verdade Anulada (2018), where he plays a teenager sent to a gay conversion therapy clinic, and O Retorno de Ben (2018), as a drug-addict returning home for the holidays. In 2019, he starred as a Shia LaBeouf stand-in in the biographical film O Preço do Talento (2019), sharing the role with Noah Jupe (despite an admitted lack of physical resemblance). He was also part of the ensemble in the highly critically-acclaimed family drama As Ondas (2019), and in 2020 played Michelle Pfeiffer's character's son in Saída à Francesa (2020) and the love-lorn nephew of Meryl Streep's author in Let Them All Talk (2020), both praised dramas circling the year-end awards season.