Lou Taylor Pucci (born July 27, 1985) is an American actor who first
appeared on film in Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity: Three
Portraits in 2002. Pucci had his breakthrough leading role in
Thumbsucker (2005), for which he won a Special Jury Prize at the
Sundance Film Festival. Pucci then starred in The Chumscrubber (2005),
Fast Food Nation (2006), The Go-Getter (2007), Explicit Ills (2008),
and Carriers (2009). Pucci had starring roles in the 2013 Evil Dead
remake, as well as The Story of Luke (2013) and Spring (2014).Pucci
was born in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. His mother, Linda Farver, is
a former model and beauty queen (Miss Union County), and his father,
Louis Pucci, worked as a guitarist for the bands The Watch and Leap of
Faith. He has two brothers. At the age of two, he moved to Keansburg,
New Jersey. He is a graduate of Christian Brothers Academy in
Lincroft, New Jersey.He first acted at the age of ten in a hometown
production of Oliver!. Two years later he acted as an understudy on
Broadway playing Freidrich in The Sound of Music. He can be seen in
Arie Posin's The Chumscrubber, the HBO miniseries Empire Falls, and
starring as the lead in Mike Mills' film Thumbsucker, for which he
received the Special Jury Prize for Acting at the 2005 Sundance Film
Festival and the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor at the 2005 Berlin
Film Festival. He also played "St. Jimmy" in Green Day's "Jesus of
Suburbia" music video.In 2009, Pucci had three films that screened at
the Sundance Film Festival: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,
directed by John Krasinski of The Office; The Informers, with Billy
Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, based on
Bret Easton Ellis' collection of short stories of the same name; and
Arlen Faber (formerly The Dream of the Romans) with Jeff Daniels and
Lauren Graham. Pucci was also a juror for the short film competition.
appeared on film in Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity: Three
Portraits in 2002. Pucci had his breakthrough leading role in
Thumbsucker (2005), for which he won a Special Jury Prize at the
Sundance Film Festival. Pucci then starred in The Chumscrubber (2005),
Fast Food Nation (2006), The Go-Getter (2007), Explicit Ills (2008),
and Carriers (2009). Pucci had starring roles in the 2013 Evil Dead
remake, as well as The Story of Luke (2013) and Spring (2014).Pucci
was born in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. His mother, Linda Farver, is
a former model and beauty queen (Miss Union County), and his father,
Louis Pucci, worked as a guitarist for the bands The Watch and Leap of
Faith. He has two brothers. At the age of two, he moved to Keansburg,
New Jersey. He is a graduate of Christian Brothers Academy in
Lincroft, New Jersey.He first acted at the age of ten in a hometown
production of Oliver!. Two years later he acted as an understudy on
Broadway playing Freidrich in The Sound of Music. He can be seen in
Arie Posin's The Chumscrubber, the HBO miniseries Empire Falls, and
starring as the lead in Mike Mills' film Thumbsucker, for which he
received the Special Jury Prize for Acting at the 2005 Sundance Film
Festival and the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor at the 2005 Berlin
Film Festival. He also played "St. Jimmy" in Green Day's "Jesus of
Suburbia" music video.In 2009, Pucci had three films that screened at
the Sundance Film Festival: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,
directed by John Krasinski of The Office; The Informers, with Billy
Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, based on
Bret Easton Ellis' collection of short stories of the same name; and
Arlen Faber (formerly The Dream of the Romans) with Jeff Daniels and
Lauren Graham. Pucci was also a juror for the short film competition.
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