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Biography #2 (for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift)

Lucas Black co-starred in Sam Mendes' wartime drama Jarhead, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx and Peter Sarsgaard and in Peter Berg's 2004 football drama Friday Night Lights, opposite Billy Bob Thornton. Black has a longstanding relationship with Thornton, which began with his unforgettable performance as Frank Wheatley, the boy who compassionately befriends a mentally handicapped murderer, in Thornton's Oscar-winning Sling Blade. Black shared a Screen Actors Guild nomination with the film's ensemble cast and won the Young Artists Award, the first of four nominations for this honor. He reunited once again with Thornton with the role as the boyish misfit, Jimmy Blevins, in Thornton's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses.

Without any formal acting training, the Alabama native made an auspicious debut at age 11 opposite star Kevin Costner in John Avnet's 1994 feature The War. The performance helped him land the role of Caleb Temple in the CBS supernatural drama American Gothic. He continued an active acting career in such projects as Rob Reiner's The Ghosts of Mississippi, Antonio Banderas' directorial debut Crazy in Alabama and Rob Bowman's big screen version of The X Files. Black, who graduated from Speake High School in 2001 (where he played football, baseball, basketball and golf), also appeared alongside Oscar nominee Jude Law in Anthony Minghella's Academy Award-nominated Civil War epic Cold Mountain and in the independent features Killer Diller and Deepwater, a noirish thriller also starring Peter Coyote. He has also appeared in guest-starring roles on CBS' Chicago Hope and in Disney's movie-of-the-week Flash.

Bio courtesy Universal Pictures for "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" (10-Jul-2006)


Biography #3 (for Cold Mountain)

Lucas Black garnered wide critical acclaim for his performance in Billy Bob Thornton's Sling Blade. A native of Alabama, Black made his film debut in 1992 at the age of 10 in John Avent's The War, starring Kevin Costner. Lucas then came to national attention in 1995 in NBC-TV's American Gothic, and also appeared in Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi, Chris Carter's The X Files and Antonio Banderas' Crazy In Alabama. In 2000, Black re-teamed with Billy Bob Thornton in the screen version of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses.

Bio courtesy Miramax for "Cold Mountain" (02-Jan-2004)