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Lucas Black

Lucas Black is known as an American actor. He is most famous for his role in American Gothic.

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Background and Age

Lucas Black was born on November 29, 1982 in Decatur, Alabama. He spent most of his adolescence in a town called Speake. His mother is named Jan Gillespie and she was an office worker while his father named Larry Black was working in a museum. He is the last born in the three children who were born from his parents.

His parents attended Southern Baptist Church. Lucas could be found playing football for his high school team, the Speake Bobcats. He finished high school in 2001. He was known to be a huge fan of golf as he was growing up. After high school, Lucas exchanged his football for golf clubs and started to hit the fairway.

Lucas attributes quite a bit of his development to his father's guidance. As the offspring of dedicated guardians, Lucas took in the estimation of hard work at a youthful age. While he says his father is his essential role model, he additionally commended his father-in-law's way of life and model.

Career and Net Worth

Lucas Black started to act in the year 1994 and he has been in many movies and TV shows in his long career. The first movie he played a role in was The War in 1994 by Kevin Costner. When he started to act, he had no training or experience in training. However, he was still able to do everything well and this is how he got a new role in the show, American Gothic broadcasted on CBS. He was given the important role of Caleb Temple.

Lucas was the star of different roles like Sling Blade, Ghosts of Mississippi, and X-Files. In the year 1997, he did a role in a television movie called Flash. He was in a supporting role for the movie, Cold Mountain in 2003.

Lucas Black was in a football-themed drama called Friday Night Lights. He was in the military movie, Jarhead which was a story based on the Gulf War. He was also part of the cast for The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift. In 2009, he was in the movie Get Low, and in 2010 he was in the movie, Legion.

His biggest recent role was on NCIS: New Orleans, playing Christopher LaSalle/

Marriage, Wife, and Kids

Lucas Black got married to Maggie O’Brien in the year 2010. She is a lawyer and is the one who is in charge of his acting contracts. His wife has given birth to two children, a daughter, and a son. The two are committed to maintaining a strong relationship while balancing their busy work schedules.

Hobbies

Lucas Black still plays golf in his spare time and still has fantasies about taking his game to the professional level. He thinks that he has the ability to translate his talents into sorts since he's flaunted his aptitudes in film. He's even admitted to playing golf inside his home and ended up with a hole.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 29 Nov, 1982
Age: 37 yrs
Occupations: Actor
Television actor
Film actor
Model
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: Decatur
Gender: Male
Description: American actor
Twitter Id: TheLucasBlack
Net Worth 2021: 8 million
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Last Modified: Jul 9 2020
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