Jonathan Tucker

Birthday: May 31, 1982
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography:
Jonathan Tucker, 21, first plunged into Fox Searchlight's The Deep End
opposite Tilda Swinton. Tucker portrayed Swinton's sensitive teenage son in the
thriller about a devout mother who instinctively reacts to cover-up a death in an
attempt to avoid her son's implications. Directed by Scott McGehee and David
Siegel, The Deep End and the performances embodied within have been described by
critics as mesmerizing, enlightening, and invigorating.
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vious effort, Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides.
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Films, the film featured Tucker
as Kirsten Dunst's voyeur teen neighbor and attempted savior. He also co-starred as
the young Billy Crudup in Barry Levinson's acclaimed Sleepers and appeared in the
comedy Two if by Sea with Sandra Bullock. Tucker has also appeared in an arch on
David E. Kelley's hit drama The Practice and immediately segued into a guest
starring role on Steven Bochco's Philly. Toronto International and Los Angeles Film
Festival entrant Ball In The House. Tucker assumes the starring role of a troubled
youth who copes to regain control of his life by confronting his drug and alcohol
addiction. Jennifer Tilly and David Strathairn round out the impressive cast. Tucker
also wrapped a starring role in the independent film Stateside opposite Rachel Leigh
Cook and Val Kilmer, and will also portray younger sibling to John C.
Reilly in the Soderbergh/Clooney-produced con-themed feature Criminal.
Though a Boston native, Tucker has had the opportunity to travel the world over,
including a couple of years in Paris as a young boy, thanks to his renowned art
historian/professor/curator father, Paul Hayes Tucker, and marketing analyst mother,
Maggie Moss-Tucker. By third grade, he was starring in the Boston Ballet's
production of The Nutcracker. He graduated from Ojai's Thacher School.
Filmography
- Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
- An Englishman in New York (2009)
- The Ruins (2008)
- Day 73 with Sarah (2007)
- Cherry Crush (2007)
- Pulse (2006)
- Love Comes to the Executioner (2006)
- Hostage (2005)
- Relative Evil (2004)
- Criminal (2004)
- Stateside (2004)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
- The Deep End (2001)
- 100 Girls (2000)
- The Virgin Suicides (2000)
- Mr. Music (1998)
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- Jean-Richard Smith at 1:17pm on July 7th, 2008
- what seperates those who go on to have a career, and someone [actor] who just goes on? i was interested enough to have a look. the ruins was surprisingly good, you got this 'Gary Sinise' thing going on, work with that [or don't] what the fuck do i know
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