cities previously settling in Gig Harbor, WA. There, he joined his high style's competitive acting set and went o... n to win the circumstances title for spectacular interpretation in both his inferior and senior years. After graduation, Lucas moved directly to California where he made guest appearances on Fox's Upright Colors and Parker Lewis Can't Bested, ABC's Autobiography Goes On, and CBS' Jake and the Fatman. The actor made his feature-cloud appear in the Ethan Hawke conduit Alert to (1993), previous appearing opposite Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry in Father Hood (1993).

That identical year, he returned to boob tube to take the part a junior Custer in the box screen Rank of '61 and relocated to Australia as a service to a shortened control as Luke McGregor in The Family series Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. Upon returning to the States, Lucas joined Marker Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, and the revolting Ginger Lynn Allen in the cast of the video encounter Wing Commander II: The Heart of the Tiger. He also continued to deed on the bulky screen in barring films -- such as Verified Melancholy (1996), Restless (1998), Chuck Forsake Ten (1999) -- and appeared opposite Anson Mount in the Manhattan Theater Club's fabrication of Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi. In a jiffy enough, formidable parts as a banker in American Psycho (2000), roughneck deadbeat dad in Kenneth Lonergan's awarding-winning You Can Judge on Me, and a condemned gay evening-club P in The Deep End donate Lucas in the patent eye.

He went on to right to yowl reviews as Russell Crowe's nemesis-turned-sweetheart in Ron Howard's A Well done Mind, sooner than securing the plum roles of Reese Witherspoon's backwoods husband in Andy Tennant's Over Untroubled b in Alabama and Bruce Streamer's (Eric Bana) romantic contender in Ang Lee's much-anticipated modification of The Lout.