Jonathan Tucker

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Tucker as Tommy Donnelly in The Black Donnellys
Tucker as Tommy Donnelly in The Black Donnellys

Jonathan Moss Tucker (born May 31, 1982) is an American film and television actor. He started his film career in the mid 1990s.

Tucker was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Paul Hayes Tucker, a university professor who is an expert on Claude Monet and French Impressionism, and Maggie Moss, a marketing analyst. Tucker's father is Irish American and Catholic and his mother is Jewish.[1] He was raised in Boston's Irish neighborhood of Charlestown and attended the Park School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Tucker attended summer camp at Camp Chingachgook on Lake George in Pilot Knob, NY, part of the Adirondacks, during the 1990s.

Tucker attended the Boston Ballet and played 'Fritz' in their production of The Nutcracker when he was in third grade. He was also featured in a Boston Ballet calendar and attended the Thacher School in Ojai, California, graduating in 2001. He deferred from Columbia University, where he was accepted for early admission.

Tucker has said that he makes lifelong friends on the set of every production he does. He remains good friends with Marshall Allman and Ben Foster, with whom he starred in the film Hostage, in 2005.

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  1. ^ Mentioned in interview at http://www.eonline.com/thevine/player.jsp (video "Watching with Kristin: 'Black' Out")

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