Jonathan Tucker
Jonathan Tucker | |
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 Tucker at the 2009 premiere of An Englishman in New York | |
| Born | Jonathan Moss Tucker May 31, 1982 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1994–present |
Jonathan Moss Tucker (born May 31, 1982) is an American film and television actor, best known for his roles in the movies The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hostage, In the Valley of Elah and The Ruins, and The Black Donnellys on television.
Life and career
Tucker was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Maggie Moss, a public relations and marketing analyst and executive, and Paul Hayes Tucker, a curator, writer, and university professor who is an expert on Claude Monet and French Impressionism.[1] Jonathan's father is of English and Irish Catholic background and his mother is Jewish.[2] His paternal great-grandfather was historian and ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes.[3] Tucker was raised in Boston's heavily Irish Charlestown neighborhood, but attended the Park School in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended summer camp at Camp Chingachgook on Lake George in Pilot Knob, New York (in the Adirondacks) during the 1990s. He attended the Boston Ballet and played 'Fritz' in their production of The Nutcracker when he was in third grade. He was also featured in a Boston Ballet calendar and attended the Thacher School in Ojai, California.
Filmography
Movies
- Troublemakers (1994)
- Two If by Sea (1996)
- Sleepers (1996)
- The Virgin Suicides (1999)
- 100 Girls (2000)
- The Deep End (2001)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
- Stateside (2004)
- Relative Evil (2004)
- Criminal (2004)
- Hostage (2005)
- Love Comes to the Executioner (2006)
- Pulse (2006)
- Cherry Crush (2007)
- In the Valley of Elah (2007)
- The Ruins (2008)
- Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
- An Englishman in New York (2009)
- The Next Three Days (2010)
- Flying Lessons (2010)
- Meskada (2010)
Television
- Early Edition (1997)
- Mr. Music (1998)
- The Practice (2001)
- Philly (2002)
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2003)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2003)
- Punk'd (2003)
- Six Feet Under (2004)
- Masters of Horror (2005)
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2006)
- The Black Donnellys (2007)
- White Collar (2010)
- Criminal Minds (2011)
- Royal Pains (2011)
References
- ^ Jonathan Tucker biography
- ^ Mentioned in interview with Tucker and Olivia Wilde at http://www.eonline.com/thevine/player.jsp; February 2007; video "Watching with Kristin: 'Black' Out" (no longer online)
- ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7869706.html
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- 1982 births
- Actors from Massachusetts
- American ballet dancers
- American child actors
- American film actors
- American Roman Catholics
- American Jews
- American people of Irish descent
- American television actors
- Jewish actors
- Living people
- People from Boston, Massachusetts
- People from Ventura County, California
- American film actor, 1980s birth stubs