Lucas Daniel Till (born August 10, 1990) is an American actor. His work spans film and television, and his accolades include five Teen Choice Award nominations.
Lucas Daniel Till was born on August 10, 1990, in Fort Cavazos, Texas. He is the son of chemist Dana Lyn (née Brady),[1] and John Mark Till, a colonel in the Army.[2][3][4] He has a younger brother, Nick (b. 1997). Till spent most of his childhood living in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. His family noticed he enjoyed impersonating voices and characters. When he was 11 his mother enrolled him in local acting classes, and it was not long before he was discovered by Joy Pervis, an agent from a Talent agency in Atlanta. Till began booking almost immediately in print, local, regional, and national commercials. He later attended Kell High School.[5] After filming for The Hannah Montana Movie in Nashville, Till went back home to graduate with the Kell High School class of 2008.[6] After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles, California, to continue acting.[6]
In 2008, Till starred as Jensen in Gregg Bishop's horror-comedy Dance of the Dead which was hand-picked by director Sam Raimi for distribution through Lions Gate Entertainment and Ghost House Pictures.[14] He was also invited to participate in the fifth season of the American television seriesHouse in the episode titled "Joy to the World" in the role of Simon, a high school student who has a romantic relationship with his schoolmate, but due to their social differences, they cannot be together.[15] Three weeks before graduating from high school, Till auditioned for Hannah Montana: The Movie (starring Miley Cyrus) and landed the role of Travis Brody, a young cowboy and Miley's friend who ends up becoming her love interest.[16] The role garnered Till two nominations at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, in the Choice Movie Actor: Music/Dance and Choice Movie: Liplock (shared with Cyrus) categories respectively.[citation needed] As part of the awards promotion campaign, Till recorded three short films: Not Another Changeling Movie, a parody of Angelina Jolie's movie Changeling;[17]The Red Menace[18] and The Bourneson Stupidity, a parody of the film The Bourne Identity.[19]
In early 2009, he participated in the horror filmLaid to Rest as a commercial employee.[20]
He also participated in the episodes "Scotophobia" and "Hydrophobia" of the horror web seriesFear Clinic playing the character of Brett, a young man suffering from hydrophobia.[21] He starred in the music video for Taylor Swift's "You Belong with Me" as her next-door neighbour and love interest.[22]
Till and Swift first met in 2008 while filming for Hannah Montana: The Movie. In 2009, he participated in the fifth season of Medium in the role of Adam Mankowitz in the episode titled "Things to do in Phoenix when you're dead",[23] and on Leo Little's Big Show along with Emily Osment in the episode titled "Hannah Montana: The Movie".[24] He was also part of the starring cast in the movie The Lost & Found Family released directly in DVD format and distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. His character was Justin, a young boy with some bad attitudes.[25]
2010s: Career fluctuations and breakthrough with MacGyver
In 2011, the actor took his first steps into the world of audiovisual production, collaborating with the production of the independent superhero filmAll Superheroes Must Die (also known as Vs)[31]
and in which he also plays the role of Ben / Cutthroat. In the film, four superheroes (one of whom is Till) are kidnapped by their arch enemy and are forced to compete in a series of challenges to save an abandoned city full of kidnapped innocent civilians. Later that year, he collaborated on the music video accompanying the performance of Adele's song "Someone like You" by Tony Oller. In the video, Till plays Tony's friend who gets in the way of their love affair.[32][unreliable source?] In 2011, he also made a commercial for an international brand of sports shoes.[33][unreliable source?]
In 2012, Till returned to work in dramas by participating in the movie Dark Hearts in the role of Sam, a young man who travels to the city to spend time with his older brother and thus escape problems at home.[34] He next worked with Nicole Kidman on the 2013 film Stoker, in which he played a bragging young man named Chris Pitts.[35] He was also part of the starring cast in the direct-to-DVD film Crush as Scott Norris, a star member of the high school soccer team who despite having a knee injury caused by a blow in a game runs every morning.[36] That same year, he returned to collaborate with Jason Trost in the production of the independent comedyWet and Reckless and in which he played Toby 'Dollars'.[37] He also participated with Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford in the film Paranoia as Kevin, friend and co-worker of Adam (Liam Hemsworth).[38]
In 2014, he returned to movies in the horror genre by participating in the film Wolves as Cayden Richards, a high school student who is becoming a werewolf and who after the murder of his parents tries to discover the truth of who he really is.[39] and in the thriller and drama movie Sins of our Youth as Tyler, alongside Joel Courtney, Mitchel Musso and Bridger Zardina.[40]
He was also a co-producer on the horror and suspense film My Eleventh.[41]
He also participated in the television seriesComedy Bang! Bang! in the first episode of the third season titled "Patton Oswalt Wears a Black Blazer & Dress Shoes"[42] and reprised his role as Havok in X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to 2011's First Class.[43]
In 2015, Till participated in the dramatic film Bravetown, originally titled Strings,[44] playing the role of Josh Harvest a DJ in his early and formative stage, and in the suspense movie The Curse of Downers Grove in the role of Bobby.[45]
Both movies released directly in DVD format.
During 2016 and 2017, he started working on a project as a co-producer, the science fiction and suspense film Spectrum playing the role of
a young scientist named Connor.[51]
He also participated in the one-hour animated television special titled Michael Jackson's Halloween which premiered on CBS in October 2017 lending his voice to the character of Vincent, a young store clerk who wants to be DJ.[52] In the same month, he participated with CBS Cares in a television campaign in support of hurricane relief in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria struck in the area.[6]
CBS renewed MacGyver in which Till played the starring role, continuing his role in the second, third and fourth seasons. This leading role allowed him to receive the nomination in 2018 in the 20th edition of the Teen Choice Awards in the category of Choice TV Actor: Action, a nomination that he also received in 2019 in the 21st broadcast of the Teen Choice Awards in the same category.[53] In addition to the leading role, Till collaborated in the production of the 13 episodes that make up the fourth season of the series.[54]
In 2019, he collaborated again with CBS Cares in a television campaign in support of the fight against lupus.[55]
2020s: MacGyver finale and critical success in film
He renewed his contract in 2020 to continue his leading role in the fifth season of MacGyver.[56] Till has said in interviews that he was the subject of verbal abuse and body shaming from the showrunner of MacGyver, Peter Lenkov.[57] Till reported being suicidal in the first year of the filming of MacGyver due to Lenkov's abuse.[57] Lenkov was later fired from CBS on July 7, 2020.[57]
Around 2017-2018, Till began dating actress Skyler Samuels. In March 2024, Samuels revealed that the two had since gotten married and were currently residing in Till's hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.[64] In May 2024, Samuels announced that they had welcomed their first child earlier that year.[65]
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