Appearances

Title	Role	Year	Approx. Age
All the Pretty Horses	Jimmy Blevins	2000	18
Crazy in Alabama	Peter Joseph 'Peejoe' Bullis	1999	17
Flash	Connor Strong	1997	15
Sling Blade - the Director's Cut	Frank Wheatley	1996	14
American Gothic Disc 2	Caleb Temple	1995	13
American Gothic Disc 1	Caleb Temple	1995	13
American Gothic Disc 3	Caleb Temple	1995	13
The War	Ebb Lipnicki	1994	12

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) when he was 12-years-old.

Soon after he found himself playing Caleb Temple (the son of the devil) 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.

Lucas 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 Disney TV movie Flash (1997) and as the politically aware Peejoe in Crazy in Alabama (1999) Directed by Antonio Banderas.

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 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 (2004) to a high school football star in Friday Night LIghts (2004) and a fresh-faced Marine in Jarhead (2005) 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 (2006).