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Born April 16, 1976, to a painter father and singer/screenwriter mother, actor Lukas Haas was discovered at age four in his West Hollywood, CA, elementary school. Haas' kindergarten principal spotted acting potential in the young student and encouraged his parents to set their sights on a movie career for the boy. They did so and Haas got his first film role in 1983's Testament, in which he played the youngest of the doomed children of post-apocalyptic housewife Jane Alexander. In 1985, Haas got his big break in the title role of Witness (1985), playing an Amish boy who witnesses a murder and must accept the protection of cop Harrison Ford. Haas received positive reviews for his performance in the widely lauded film and went on to further raves -- and an Emmy nomination -- four years later for his TV portrayal of AIDS victim Ryan White in The Ryan White Story. In-between came roles in such high-grade, sensitive teen fare as The Lady in White and The Wizard of Loneliness (both 1988).
Haas then disappeared for awhile, making occasional appearances in films such as Rambling Rose (1991), which cast him as a sweet, sexually inquisitive adolescent. 1996 marked the beginning of a new stage in his career, when he appeared in four very different films. No longer the cute little Amish boy in Witness, the now tall, gawky actor showcased his talents in Woody Allen's musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You, Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!, the coming-of-age Boys (in which he co-starred with Winona Ryder), and Johns, in which he and David Arquette played down-and-out prostitutes in Los Angeles.
In 1998, the indignity of having his scenes deleted from Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line was partially allayed by the praise Haas received for his lead role in David and Lisa, a made-for-TV movie co-produced by Oprah Winfrey. He went on to star as Bunny Hoover in the screen adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, a role which put him in the company of such actors as Albert Finney, Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, and Barbara Hershey.
After a smattering of minor roles -- and a stint in a band with Vincent Gallo -- Haas was very much in demand as an edgy supporting player as he approached his 30th birthday. Festival audiences got a double-dose of the actor in two high-profile 2005 indies: First as the gang kingpin known simply as Pin in the high-school noir Brick, then in a minor but memorable part as a friend to Michael Pitt's doomed rock star in Gus Van Sant's Last Days. Two higher-profile films of wildly different stripes followed: 2006's gritty crime drama Alpha Dog and the Duff sisters' bubblegum flop Material Girls. ~ Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide
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Ford on film The National, United Arab Emirates - Director: Peter Weir Ford’s star turn as the weather-beaten police officer drafted in to help a young Amish boy (Lukas Haas) who has witnessed a murder ... |
Fontana Thrives With Pulse PR Newswire (press release), NY - This will be followed by releases from The Outline, Ima Robot and Lukas Haas, among others. Pulse was founded by Josh Abraham, Jason Bernard and CFO Scott ... |
Top 10 things to do in Swampscott and Marblehead this week Swampscott Reporter, MA - When Samuel (Lukas Haas), a young Amish boy traveling with his mother, Rachel (Kelly McGillis), witnesses the murder of a police officer in a public ... |
 Salon | What's hot (and not) at Tribeca Salon - "Gardener of Eden," with Lukas Haas and Giovanni Ribisi. "The Hammer," with Adam Carolla as a 40-year-old Olympic boxer and . . . well, I have no idea who ... |
LHS track competes at two meets Laurel Outlook, MT - 300 hurdles - Lukas Polkow, Billings Skyview, 39.98; Russel Schey, Billings West, 40.22; Caleb Dick, Harlowton, 40.29; Scott Samson, Three Forks, 40.34; ... |
Honor roll Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA - Seventh Grade: Kanesha Bonner, Mark Brown, Rachel Brozusky, Tessa Bucciarelli, Emma Buttke, Madelyn Buttke, Lukas Buttke, Marlena Chesner, Brent Christy, ... |
New view: See the world through different eyes. Find out what's ... San Francisco Chronicle, USA - "Modern Masterworks from the Elise S. Haas Collection." Works by Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, others. Through July 20. ... |
Pulse syncs up with Fontana Variety, CA - Releases from the Outline, Ima Robot and Lukas Haas will follow. Under the agreement, Fontana will work with Pulse to expand the label's reach in the ... |
2008 NBA Playoffs Travel: Celebrities Flock to the Staples Center Jaunted - Sitting a few rows up from the floor we spotted rocker Flea, "Gossip Girl" and "The OC" creator Josh Schwartz, old-timey rapper Biz Markie and Lukas Haas, ... |
 The Star-Ledger - NJ.com | Sporting events were a hot celeb hangout this weekend: Tobey ... The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - by Heather L. Rohan/Star-Ledger Staff NOEL VASQUEZ/GETTY IMAGESTobey Maguire (L) and Lukas Haas(R) at the Los Angeles Lakers game April 20 in Los Angeles. ... |
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