Lukas Haas
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| Born | Lukas Daniel Haas April 16, 1976 West Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, musician |
| Years active | 1983–present |
Lukas Daniel Haas (born April 16, 1976) is an American actor and musician. His acting career has spanned three decades, during which he has appeared in more than 50 feature films and a number of television shows and stage productions.
Early life
Haas was born in West Hollywood, California, the son of Berthold Haas, an artist, and Emily Tracy, an author.[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 designers.
Acting career
Haas was discovered at the age of five in his kindergarten by casting director Margery Simkin. His first screen role was as a child in the 1983 nuclear holocaust film Testament. He became more widely known in 1985 when, at the age of eight, he appeared 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 roles in films such as Lady in White and Solarbabies. In 1989, he appeared in the film Music Box, as the 12-year-old son of Jessica Lange's character, and grandson of an immigrant who is accused of being a war criminal. For this role he was nominated for the award of young artists. He also starred in the films Alan and Naomi and Rambling Rose.
Haas received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Ryan White in the television movie The Ryan White Story, about an American teenager who contracted AIDS through contaminated blood treatments for hemophilia. On stage in 1988, he performed in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot at Lincoln Center in New York City.[4] He went on to appear in Everyone Says I Love You, Mars Attacks!, and Breakfast of Champions. His work in the 2000s includes Brick, Last Days, and While She Was Out.
In March 2010, Haas 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. He had a role on the 2012 television series Touch.[5] During 2014 he co-starred also in the Horror Drama film Dark Was the Night.[6]
Music career
Haas is the drummer and pianist for The Rogues.[7] He has composed parts of several film soundtracks, including Breakfast of Champions and Last Days, and performed as a guest musician on the Macy Gray album The Trouble with Being Myself and the Jet album Shaka Rock. In 2008, he released a solo EP. He appeared in the music videos for OutKast's "Roses," My Chemical Romance's "Welcome to the Black Parade," UGK's "International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)," Death Cab For Cutie's "Cath…," and Jet's "She's a Genius".
On February 25, 2011, it was announced that Haas had released a musical collaboration with Isabel Lucas called "Made For You". The recorded and video clip were filmed in Lukas' LA studio, and were later revealed to be a marketing campaign of the Portuguese band The Gift for their album Explode.[8][9]
Filmography
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- 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)
- Lathe of Heaven (2002)
- Long Time Dead (2002)
- The Twilight Zone (2002)
- Bookies (2003)
- Criminal Minds (2005)
- Brick (2005)
- Last Days (2005)
- 24 (2005)
- The Pearl (2001)[10]
- 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)
- Lincoln (2012)
- Meth Head (2013)
- Touch (2013)
- Jobs (2013)
- Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013)
- Transcendence (2014)
- Ibid (2014)
- Dark Was the Night (2015)
- The Revenant (2015)
References
- ↑ Lukas Haas Biography (1976–)
- ↑ http://www.peter-reynders.de/WY/wonder51.htm
- ↑ Variety's review of Witness
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- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Dark Was the Night
- ↑ Lukas Haas at MySpace
- ↑ (Portuguese) The Gift em Hollywood cotonete.clix.pt
- ↑ (Portuguese) The Gift – Made for You a-trompa.net
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External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- Lukas Haas at the Internet Movie Database
- Lukas Haas on Myspace
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- Male actors from California
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- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- American people of German descent
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- 20th-century American male actors
- 21st-century American male actors
