LUCAS BLACK (Mike Winchell) reunites once again with Billy Bob Thornton after his role as the boyish misfit, Jimmy Blevins, in Thornton’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses. He preceded that re-teaming with his unforgettable performance as Frank Wheatley, the boy who compassionately befriends a mentally handicapped murderer, in Thornton’s Oscar®-winning Sling Blade. For the latter, Black shared a Screen Actors Guild nomination with the film’s ensemble cast and won the Young Artists Award, the first of four nominations for this honor.
Without any formal acting training, the Alabama native made an auspicious debut at age 11 opposite star Kevin Costner in John Avnet’s 1994 feature, The War. The performance helped him land the role of Caleb Temple in the CBS supernatural drama, American Gothic. He continued an active acting career in such projects as Rob Reiner’s The Ghosts of Mississippi, Antonio Banderas’ directorial debut, Crazy in Alabama, and Rob Bowman’s big screen version of The X Files. He has also appeared in guest-starring roles on Chicago Hope and in Disney’s movie-of-the-week, Flash.
Black, who graduated from Speake High School in 2001 (where he played football, baseball, basketball and golf), most recently appeared alongside Oscar® nominee Jude Law in Anthony Minghella’s Academy Award®-nominated Civil War epic, Cold Mountain. He just completed roles in two independent features: Killer Diller and Deepwater, a noirish thriller also starring Peter Coyote.
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