Josh Lucas

With pronounced dimples and sparkling blue eyes, Lucas boasts leading-man looks, but this prolific actor has yet to become a bona fide star. After high school he moved to Hollywood and soon landed small-screen guest appearances. In the '90s he worked both on Australian TV and the New York stage before returning to the West Coast. His career finally took off in the '00s with a variety of supporting turns that showed his range — a sleazy yuppie in American Psycho, a mathematician in A Beautiful Mind and a villain in Hulk. The 2002 romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama allowed Lucas to flex his sex appeal, but his subsequent projects were hit or miss (particularly the atrocious bomb Stealth) and rarely capitalized on his undeniable appeal.Josh Lucas Fast Facts:

• Parents were peace/anti-nuclear activists who moved frequently while he was young. As a result, he lived in 30 different places before he turned 13.
• His family did not have a TV until 1984, when they purchased one to watch the Olympics.
• Realized he wanted to become an actor in 1987 when he was mesmerized by Michael Douglas's Oscar-winning portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Wall Street.
• Often confused with Matthew McConaughey.
• Dated Salma Hayek.
• As an up-and-coming actor, he appeared in a number of off-Broadway shows in New York, including Terrence McNally's controversial drama Corpus Christi in 1998. Lucas made his Broadway debut in 2005 in a revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.
• Put on 43lbs. for the part of Texas Western coach Don Haskins in Glory Road (2006).

• Josh Lucas Relationships:
• Don Maurer - Father
• Michelle Maurer - Mother