Lucas Black
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Black at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival
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| Born |
Lucas York Black November 29, 1982 Decatur, Alabama, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Spouse(s) | Maggie O'Brien (m. 2010) |
Lucas York Black (born November 29, 1982) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles in the CBS television series American Gothic (1995) as well as roles in films such as Sling Blade (1996), All the Pretty Horses (2000) "Flash" (1997), Friday Night Lights (2004), Jarhead (2005), The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Get Low (2009), Legion (2010), and Seven Days in Utopia (2011). Since September 2014, he has played Special Agent Christopher LaSalle on CBS' NCIS: New Orleans.
Black was born in Decatur, Alabama, to Jan Gillespie, an office worker, and Larry Black, a museum employee. He has two older siblings and was raised a Southern Baptist. He grew up in Speake, Alabama, played for the Speake Bobcats, and graduated from high school in May 2001.
Black made his film debut in Kevin Costner's film The War (1994). He subsequently was cast as Caleb Temple in CBS' television series American Gothic, which ran from 1995 to 1996, and in the films Sling Blade, Ghosts of Mississippi, and The X-Files. Later Black starred as Conner Strong in the TV film Flash (1997), which aired on The Wonderful World of Disney; in the movie his character visits a horse every day in hopes of buying it.
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