Movie Credits
Ballers	(2007)
[ Dave Chappelle ][ T.I. ]
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift	(2006)
[ Vin Diesel ][ Bow Wow ][ Zachery Ty Bryan ][ Sung Kang ][ Brandon Brendel ]
Jarhead	(2005)
[ Jamie Foxx ][ Jake Gyllenhaal ][ Peter Sarsgaard ][ John Krasinski ][ Chris Cooper ]
Deepwater	(2005)
[ Peter Coyote ][ Michael Ironside ][ Xander Berkeley ]
Friday Night Lights	(2004)
[ Iggy Pop ][ Jay Hernandez ][ Garrett Hedlund ][ Billy Bob Thornton ][ Christian Kane ]
Killer Diller	(2004)
[ Fred Willard ][ William Lee Scott ]
Cold Mountain	(2003)
[ Charlie Hunnam ][ Jude Law ][ Giovanni Ribisi ][ Donald Sutherland ][ Cillian Murphy ]
All the Pretty Horses	(2000)
[ Matt Damon ][ Bruce Dern ][ Robert Patrick ][ Henry Thomas ][ Sam Shepard ]
The Miracle Worker	(2000)
[ Andrew Prine ][ David Strathairn ]
Crazy in Alabama	(1999)
[ David Morse ][ Robert Wagner ][ Rod Steiger ][ Little Richard ][ Richard Schiff ]
Our Friend, Martin	(1999)
[ James Earl Jones ][ John Travolta ][ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Frank Welker ][ Danny Glover ]
The X Files	(1998)
[ Jason Beghe ][ David Duchovny ][ Terry O'Quinn ][ Martin Landau ][ Mitch Pileggi ]
Flash	(1997)
[ Brian Kerwin ][ Dan Byrd ]
To Hell and Back	(1996)
The Plague Sower	(1996)
[ Jake Weber ]
Ghosts of Mississippi	(1996)
[ Alec Baldwin ][ William H Macy ][ Craig T Nelson ][ Terry O'Quinn ][ James Woods ]
Sling Blade	(1996)
[ Robert Duvall ][ John Ritter ][ Billy Bob Thornton ][ Dwight Yoakam ][ J.T. Walsh ]
Eye of the Beholder	(1995)
[ Jake Weber ]
A Tree Grows in Trinity	(1995)
[ Jake Weber ]
The War	(1994)
[ Kevin Costner ][ Mick Jagger ][ Elijah Wood ]

Though he has proven to be a natural, allegedly Lucas Black's ambition is not to be an actor when he grows up. Born and raised in Alabama, Black became a professional actor when an open casting call landed him a bit part in Jon Avnet's The War (1994). After starring on TV's American Gothic (1995), Black definitively caught the audience's attention with his pivotal role in Billy Bob Thornton's award-winning drama Sling Blade (1996). Resisting child actor treacle, Black turned in a genuinely charming and moving performance as the young boy who befriends Thornton's mentally challenged ex-con. Despite the acclaim, however, Black opted to stay home in Alabama rather than go Hollywood. Black continued to act throughout his high school years, playing supporting roles in the racial drama Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) and the big-screen version of The X-Files (1998), and starring in the TV movie Flash (1997) and as the politically aware Peejoe in Crazy in Alabama (1999). In Thornton's second directorial effort All the Pretty Horses (2000), Black's performance as the young drifter who gets Matt Damon into trouble once again revealed his ability to hold his own against — indeed outshine — Hollywood's best. Black, however, has asserted that his ultimate goal is to become a professional fisherman. High profile roles as everything from a piano savant in Killer Diller to a high school football star in Friday Night LIghts and a fresh-faced Marine in Jarhead proved without question that Black had the acting range needed to craft and impressive and enduring career, and in 2006 Black put the peddle to the metal as a troubled teen whose trip to Tokyo finds him mastering the art of the drift in the adrenaline-charged sequel The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.