Lukas Haas
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 Haas at the premiere of Inception, Los Angeles, July 13, 2010 |
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| Born | Lukas Daniel Haas April 16, 1976 West Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1983–present |
Lukas Daniel Haas (born April 16, 1976) is an American actor. His career has spanned three decades during which time he has appeared in more than 50 feature films, as well as a number of television shows and theater productions.
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Early life and acting career[edit]
Haas was born in West Hollywood, California, the son of Emily Tracy, a writer, and Berthold Haas, an artist.[1] His mother is a native of Texas, and his father emigrated from Germany.[2] He has two brothers, twins Simon Jakoway Haas and Nikolai Johannes Haas, both musicians/artists. Haas was discovered at the age of 5 in his kindergarten by casting director Marjorie Simkin. His first screen role was as a child in the 1983 nuclear holocaust film Testament.
Haas became more widely known in 1985 when, at the age of 8, he appeared with Harrison Ford in Witness. His performance as an Amish boy who is the sole witness to a police officer's murder was well received by critics.[3] Haas followed this with parts in films such as Lady in White and Solarbabies. In 1989, he played in the Costa-Gavras film Music Box in the role of the 12-year-old son of Jessica Lange and grandson of the immigrant who was accused as a war criminal. For this role he was nominated for the award of young artists. Also at a young age, he starred in the movies Alan and Naomi and Rambling Rose.
Haas received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Ryan White in the TV movie The Ryan White Story, about an American teenager who contracted AIDS through contaminated blood treatments for hemophilia. On stage in 1988, he performed alongside Steve Martin and Robin Williams in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at Lincoln Center in New York City for director Mike Nichols.[4]
He went on to appear in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You, Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!, and Alan Rudolph's Breakfast of Champions. Haas' work in the 2000s includes Brick, Gus Van Sant's Last Days, and While She Was Out with Kim Basinger. In March 2010 he was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame. Recently he appeared in Red Riding Hood, Contraband and Christopher Nolan's Inception.
He has made guest appearances in Amazing Stories, both the 1985 and the 2002 versions of The Twilight Zone, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, As Told by Ginger, The Zeta Project, 24, Criminal Minds, Dirt and Entourage.
In 2012, it was announced that he will be a regular cast member on the television series Touch.[5]
Music[edit]
Haas is a musician;[6] he plays drums and piano for a band called The Rogues. He composed parts of several film soundtracks, including Breakfast of Champions and Last Days, and performed as a guest musician on Macy Gray's album The Trouble with Being Myself and Jet's album Shaka Rock. In 2008 he released a solo EP.
He has appeared in the music videos for My Chemical Romance's "Welcome to the Black Parade", OutKast's "Roses", UGK's "International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)", Death Cab For Cutie's "Cath…", and Jet's "She's a Genius".
On 25 February 2011, it was announced that Haas released a musical collaboration with Isabel Lucas called "Made For You". The recorded and the film clip was filmed in Lukas' LA studio. This collaboration has been later revealed as a marketing campaign of the Portuguese band The Gift for their album Explode.[7][8]
Filmography[edit]
- Testament (1983)
- Witness (1985)
- Solarbabies (1986)
- Lady in White (1988)
- See You in the Morning (1989)
- The Ryan White Story (1989)
- Music Box (1989)
- Convicts (1991)
- Rambling Rose (1991)
- The Perfect Tribute (1991)
- Alan & Naomi (1992)
- Leap of Faith (1992)
- Warrior Spirit (1994)
- Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
- Boys (1996)
- Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Johns (1996)
- David and Lisa (1998)
- Breakfast of Champions (1999)
- Running Free (2000)
- Zoolander (2001)
- The Pearl (2005)[9]
- Lathe of Heaven (2002)
- Long Time Dead (2002)
- Bookies (2003)
- Criminal Minds (2005)
- Brick (2005)
- Last Days (2005)
- 24 (TV Series) (2005)
- Material Girls (2006)
- The Darwin Awards (2006)
- Who Loves the Sun (2006)
- Welcome to the Black Parade music video (2006)
- Swedish Auto (2006)
- Alpha Dog (2007)
- The Cradle (2007)
- The Tripper (2007)
- Gardener of Eden (2007)
- T Takes (2008)
- Death in Love (2008)
- While She Was Out (2008)
- Inception (2010)
- Red Riding Hood (2011)
- Crazy Eyes (2011)
- Contraband (2012)
- Touch (2012)
- Lincoln (2012)
- Jobs (2013)
- Ibid (2014)
References[edit]
- ^ Lukas Haas Biography (1976-)
- ^ http://www.peter-reynders.de/WY/wonder51.htm
- ^ Variety's review of Witness
- ^ Rich, Frank (1988-11-07). "Review/Theater; 'Godot': The Timeless Relationship of 2 Interdependent Souls". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-01-21.
- ^ [1]
- ^ Lukas Haas at MySpace
- ^ (Portuguese)The Gift em Hollywood cotonete.clix.pt
- ^ (Portuguese)The Gift - Made for You a-trompa.net
- ^ Railsback, Brian E.; Meyer, Michael J. (2006). A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 284–. ISBN 9780313296697. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
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External links[edit]
- Lukas Haas at the Internet Movie Database
- Lukas Haas on Myspace
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