Date of Birth

27 December 1985, Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA

Height

5' 8" (1.73 m)

Mini Biography

Lou Taylor Pucci emerged as one of the most promising young actors of his generation when Mike Mills' Thumbsucker premiered at Sundance Film Festival. For his performance as 'Justin Cobb,' a compulsive 17-year-old thumbsucker, Pucci received both a Sundance Special Jury Prize for acting and the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

Pucci made his feature film debut as a young hitchhiker in Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity, which earned the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film. His motion picture credits also include Evil Dead, the fourth installment in the franchise produced by Sam Raimi; Beginners, re-teaming with Mike Mills, The Music Never Stopped with Oscar winner J.K. Simmons; The Answer Man, opposite Jeff Daniels; Carriers, alongside Chris Pine; Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation; and Will Canon's Brotherhood (Best Narrative Feature, SXSW).

The actor has also made a notable impression on the small screen, starring in memorable, recurring roles on "American Horror Story," "You're The Worst," "Falling Water," and as the tortured hipster Benji in the Netflix hit "You." Additional television credits include the HBO miniseries "Empire Falls," working opposite Paul Newman and Ed Harris for director Fred Schepisi, an appearance on "Halt and Catch Fire," a crossover role between "Chicago PD" and "Law and Order: SVU," and as an indie rock icon in Green Day's music video "Jesus of Suburbia."

Pucci grew up in central New Jersey and had little interest in acting until his aunt bribed him to try out for community theater at age 10. Two years later, he appeared on Broadway as Friedrich in "The Sound of Music."

Trivia

• He is an accomplished magician specializing in the art of sleight-of-hand.
• Has two brothers, actor Adam Pucci and drummer Zak Pucci.
• In his senior year of high school, he won a prize at his school for his Halloween costume - he dressed as silent film legend Charles Chaplin.
• He was very involved in his high school's theater, Pegasus Productions. He played Billy in his school's production of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" and the Jesus character in the school's production of "Godspell". He also portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in a student-run production of "A Christmas Carol".
• Has a younger sister named "Penelope Ann" after a character in the musical "Bye, Bye, Birdie", but everyone calls her "Poo".
• Graduated from Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey, USA in 2003.
• Reunited with Vincent D'Onofrio, who played his father in Thumbsucker (2005), in Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Cruise to Nowhere (2006).
• His favorite actors are Gary Oldman, Steve Buscemi, and Vincent D'Onofrio.
• In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA while shooting Mark Webber and Jim Jarmusch's Explicit Ills (2008). [September 2007]
• After attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, USA in January to promote The Go-Getter (2007), he is now in Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada filming Horsemen (2009) with Dennis Quaid. [February 2007]
• In Los Angeles doing reshoots for Carriers (2009) and shooting The Informers (2008). [October 2007]
• In Arlington, Texas, USA shooting a movie called Brotherhood (2010), which also stars his friends, Trevor Morgan and Jon Foster. [August 2008]
• In Los Angeles to film the role of "Lee" in The Chumscrubber (2005). [March 2004]
• After returning from the 2009 Sundance Film Festival where 3 of his films premiered, The Answer Man (2009), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) and The Informers (2008) and being a juror for the Short Film Competition, is enjoying his new apartment in Venice, California. [February 2009]
• In Waterville, Maine, USA filming Empire Falls (2005). [September 2003]
• In Los Angeles after filming Southland Tales (2006) and Green Day: Jesus of Suburbia (2005), Lou is rehearsing for the lead in Martin Hynes' The Go-Getter (2007) and also for a part in Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation (2006). [October 2005]
• In New Mexico, USA filming the Pastor Brothers (David Pastor and Àlex Pastor) movie Carriers (2009). [September 2006]