Lukas Haas

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Lukas Haas

Haas at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 2007
Born Lukas Daniel Haas
April 16, 1976 (1976-04-16) (age 32)
West Hollywood, California, USA
Years active 1983 ─ present

Lukas Daniel Haas (born April 16, 1976) is an American actor.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Personal life

Haas was born in West Hollywood, California, the son of Emily Tracy, a writer, and Berthold Haas, an artist.[1] He has two brothers, twins Simon Jakoway and Nikolai Johannes Haas, both musicians/artists.

[edit] Career

At the age of five, he was discovered in his kindergarten by casting director Marjorie Simkin. Haas’s career has spanned more than twenty years during which time he has appeared in more than thirty-six feature films, as well as a number of television shows and theater productions. His first screen role was as a child in the 1983 nuclear holocaust film Testament.

Haas became more widely-known in 1985 when, aged eight, he appeared opposite Harrison Ford in Witness. His performance as the Amish child who is the sole witness to an undercover cop's murder was well-received by critics.[2] Haas followed this with parts in films such as Lady in White and Solarbabies.

Haas played AIDS victim Ryan White in the controversial TV movie, The Ryan White Story, for which he received an Emmy nomination. On stage in 1988, Lukas performed alongside Steve Martin and Robin Williams in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at Lincoln Center in New York City for director Mike Nichols.

He went on to appear in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You, Tim Burton's Mars Attacks, and Alan Rudolph's Breakfast of Champions. Haas’s most recent work includes Brick and Gus Van Sant's Last Days.

[edit] Music

Haas is also a musician[3] and plays drums and piano for a band called The Rogues. He has appeared in the music videos for My Chemical Romance's "Welcome to the Black Parade" and OutKast's "Roses".

[edit] Filmography

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lukas Haas Biography (1976-)
  2. ^ Variety's review of Witness (1985 film)
  3. ^ [1]. Haas's myspace page

[edit] External links