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's '' Personal Velocity: Three Portraits'' in 2002. Pucci had his breakthrough leading role in '' Thumbsucker'' (2005), for which he won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the

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at the Berlin Film Festival. Pucci then starred in ''

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'' (2005), '' Fast Food Nation'' (2006), ''

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'' (2007), '' Explicit Ills'' (2008), and '' Carriers'' (2009). Pucci had starring roles in the 2013 '' Evil Dead'' remake, as well as '' The Story of Luke'' (2013) and '' Spring'' (2014).

Early life and education

Pucci was born in

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. His mother, Linda Farver, is a former model and beauty queen (Miss Union County), and his father, Louis Pucci, worked as a guitarist for the bands The Watch and Leap of Faith. He has two brothers. At the age of two, he moved to Keansburg, New Jersey. He is a graduate of Christian Brothers Academy in

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Career

He first acted at the age of ten in a hometown production of '' Oliver!''. Two years later he acted as an

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playing Freidrich in ''

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''. He can be seen in

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's ''

'', the HBO miniseries '' Empire Falls'', and starring as the lead in

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' film '' Thumbsucker'', for which he received the Special Jury Prize for Acting at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival. He also played "St. Jimmy" in Green Day's " Jesus of Suburbia" music video. In 2009, Pucci had three films that screened at the Sundance Film Festival: '' Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'', directed by John Krasinski; ''

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'', with

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and

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, based on

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' collection of short stories of the same name; and '' The Answer Man'' (formerly ''Arlen Faber'' and ''The Dream of the Romans'') with Jeff Daniels and Lauren Graham. Pucci was also a juror for the short film competition. Pucci had roles in multiple indie films for the latter part of the decade, and had a leading role playing an

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man in '' The Story of Luke'' (2013), alongside Seth Green. He also had a starring role in the '' Evil Dead'' (2013) remake, based on Sam Raimi's 1981

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and played one of the leading roles in the thriller '' Spring''. In November 2014, Pucci starred as Teddy Courtney in a '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''-''

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'' crossover. He also portrayed Ben in the horror film '' Ava's Possessions.'' In 2016, he starred alongside

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in the western thriller '' Poor Boy'', which premiered at the

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in April 2016. In 2018, Pucci guest-starred in the first 3 episodes of Lifetime's thriller series '' You'' as Benji. In 2019 he guest-starred as Nock Nock in the FX comedy series ''

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'', then went on to play a recurring role in '' American Horror Story: 1984''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pucci, Lou Taylor 1985 births American male film actors Christian Brothers Academy (New Jersey) alumni Living people People from Keansburg, New Jersey People from Seaside Heights, New Jersey Sundance Film Festival award winners Silver Bear for Best Actor winners 21st-century American male actors