American actor and exemplary

Lucas Daniel Till ( born August 10, 1990 ) is an american english actor, model, and manufacturer. He has appeared in a count of film and television productions, including Hannah Montana: The Movie ( 2009 ), The Spy Next Door ( 2010 ), and Monster Trucks ( 2016 ). Till portrayed Havok in the X-Men prequel films from 2011 to 2016, and starred in the 2016 CBS boot of the 1985 television receiver series MacGyver as the titular character until its end in 2021 .

early life [edit ]

Lucas Daniel Till was born on August 10, 1990, in Fort Hood, Texas. He is the son of Dana Lyn ( née Brady ), a pharmacist by profession, [ 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 survive in the suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. His family cursorily noticed, when he was at a very young historic period, that he had an affinity for impersonating voices and characters. When he was 11 years old, his beget enrolled him in local act classes, and it was not long before he was discovered by Joy Pervis, an agent from a Talent means in Atlanta. Till began booking about immediately in photographic print, local, regional, and national commercials. He late attended Kell High School. He spent three weeks in Germany as an commute student and was besides a extremity of the german National Honor Society. [ 5 ] After filming for The Hannah Montana Movie in Nashville, Till went bet on home to graduate with the Kell High School course of 2008. [ 6 ] After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles, California, to continue acting. [ 6 ]

career [edit ]

In 2003, he made his foremost film collaboration in the curtly film The Lovesong of Edwerd J. Robble, in the character of Michael. [ 7 ] At the age of 12, he was cast in The Adventures of Ociee Nash in which he played Harry Vanderbilt, the browbeat of the independent quality. [ 8 ] In 2004, Till played the function of Jay in the horror film Lightning Bug which filmed in Fairview, Alabama, [ 9 ] and, by and by, he participated in the short film Pee Shy, [ 10 ] play Chad. His first major movie function was Jack Cash, the older brother of Johnny Cash, who died in a lumbermill accident, in the biographic film Walk the Line ( 2005 ). [ 11 ] After Walk the Line, Till was featured in a numeral of television films for Lifetime and independent films. [ 8 ] For exercise, the follow year, Till played the unseasoned Samuel North in a feature film The Other Side filmed in Atlanta, Georgia. [ 12 ] In 2006, he besides joined the cast of the Lifetime television film Not Like Everyone Else, portraying Kyle Kenney. [ 13 ]
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 besides invited to participate in the fifth season of the american english television serial House in the episode titled “ Joy to the World “ in the role of Simon, a high school student who has a romanticist relationship with his schoolmate, but due to their sociable differences, they can not be in concert. [ 15 ] Three weeks before graduating from high school, Till auditioned for Hannah Montana: The Movie ( starring Miley Cyrus ) and landed the function of Travis Brody, a young cowboy and Miley ‘s childhood supporter who ends up becoming her love interest. [ 16 ] The character 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. [ 17 ] As part of the awards promotion campaign, Till recorded three short films : Not Another Changeling Movie, a parody of Angelina Jolie ‘s movie Changeling; [ 18 ] The Red Menace [ 19 ] and The Bourneson Stupidity, a parody of the film The Bourne Identity. [ 20 ] In early on 2009, he participated in the horror film Laid to Rest as a commercial employee. [ 21 ] He besides participated in the episodes “ Scotophobia ” and “ Hydrophobia ” of the repugnance web series Fear Clinic playing the character of Brett, a young serviceman suffering from hydrophobia. [ 22 ] He starred in the music video for Taylor Swift ‘s “ You Belong with Me “ as her next-door neighbor and love pastime. [ 23 ] 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 character of Adam Mankowitz in the episode titled “ Things to do in Phoenix when you ‘re all in ”, [ 24 ] and on Leo Little’s Big Show along with Emily Osment in the sequence titled “ Hannah Montana : The Movie ”. [ 25 ] He was besides contribution 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 adolescent with some bad attitudes. [ 26 ] In early 2010, Till played the character of a russian agent in the film The Spy Next Door starring Jackie Chan. [ 27 ] That lapp year, he played Matt Parker, a senior high school school quarterback in the inaugural season of Blue Mountain State in the episode titled “ The Legend of the Golden Arm ”. [ 28 ] He besides returned to collaborate in the co-production in an independent science fabrication venture film directed by Jason Trost and in which he besides plays Jack, a young serviceman on vacation in Asia who realizes that his atrocious dreams are becoming a reality and that world is turning into a nightmare. The movie was called “ vacation 8 ”. [ 29 ] In 2011, he was part of the shed of the Columbia Pictures -produced natural process science fiction film Battle: Los Angeles as Corporal Grayston. [ 30 ] Till played Alex Summers/Havok, a mutant who has the ability to absorb solar energy which he can then launch as plasma energy from his body in the X-Men by-product X-Men: First Class, a superhero film produced by twentieth Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment directed by Matthew Vaughn. [ 31 ] This role allowed him to receive a nomination for the 13th Teen Choice Awards in the Choice Movie : chemistry class ( shared with Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Caleb Landry Jones, and Edi Gathegi ). [ 17 ] In 2011, the actor took his first steps into the world of audiovisual production, collaborating with the production of the independent superhero film All Superheroes Must Die ( besides known as Vs ) [ 32 ] and in which he besides plays the function of Ben / Cutthroat. In the film, four superheroes ( one of whom is Till ) are kidnapped by their arch foe and are forced to compete in a series of challenges to save an abandoned city full of kidnap innocent civilians. late that year, he collaborated on the music video recording accompanying the performance of Adele ‘s song “ person like You “ by Tony Oller. In the television, Till plays Tony ‘s friend who gets in the direction of their sexual love affair. [ 33 ] [ unreliable source? ] In 2011, he besides made a commercial for an international trade name of sports shoes. [ 34 ] [ unreliable source? ]
In 2012, Till returned to work in play by participating in the movie Dark Hearts in the character of Sam, a young man who travels to the city to spend time with his older buddy and thus escape problems at family. [ 35 ] He adjacent worked with Nicole Kidman on the 2013 film Stoker, in which he played a boastful youthful valet named Chris Pitts. [ 36 ] He was besides part of the starring cast in the direct-to-DVD movie Crush as Scott Norris, a star member of the gamey school soccer team who despite having a knee injury caused by a blow in a game runs every dawn. [ 37 ] That same year, he returned to collaborate with Jason Trost in the production of the autonomous comedy Wet and Reckless and in which he played Toby ‘Dollars ‘. [ 38 ] He besides participated with Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford in the film Paranoia as Kevin, acquaintance and colleague of Adam ( Liam Hemsworth ). [ 39 ] In 2014, he returned to movies in the horror genre by participating in the film Wolves as Cayden Richards, a high school scholar who is becoming a werewolf and who after the mangle of his parents tries to discover the accuracy of who he in truth is. [ 40 ] and in the thriller and play movie Sins of our Youth as Tyler, aboard Joel Courtney, Mitchel Musso and Bridger Zardina. [ 41 ] He was besides a co-producer on the repugnance and suspense film My Eleventh. [ 42 ] He besides participated in the television serial Comedy Bang! Bang! in the first episode of the third base temper titled “ Patton Oswalt Wears a Black Blazer & Dress Shoes ” [ 43 ] and reprised his function as Havok in X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to 2011 ‘s First Class. [ 44 ] In 2015, Till participated in the dramatic film Bravetown, primitively titled Strings, [ 45 ] playing the function of Josh Harvest a DJ in his early and formative phase, and in the suspense movie The Curse of Downers Grove in the function of Bobby. [ 46 ] Both movies released directly in DVD format.

In 2016, Till played Ben Philips Jr. in the repugnance film The Disappointments Room [ 47 ] and returned as Havok in X-Men: Apocalypse, the third base installment in the X-Men prequel films series. [ 48 ] That same class, he began starring as Angus “ Mac ” MacGyver in the television receiver boot of MacGyver, which airs on CBS. Mac is a secret agent of a United States government administration that uses his extraordinary endowment to solve problems and his extensive cognition of science to save lives. [ 49 ] Paramount Animation together with Nickelodeon Movies produced the comedy and gamble movie titled Monster Trucks, directed by Blue Sky Studios founder Chris Wedge in which Till starred as Tripp. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] During 2016 and 2017, he started working on a project as a co-producer, the skill fiction and suspense film Spectrum playing the function of a young scientist named Connor. [ 52 ] He besides participated in the one-hour animated television receiver special titled Michael Jackson’s Halloween which premiered on CBS in October 2017 lending his voice to the character of Vincent, a young store salesclerk who wants to be DJ. [ 53 ] In the same month, he participated with CBS Cares in a television receiver political campaign in corroborate of hurricane relief in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria struck in the area. [ 6 ] CBS renewed MacGyver in which Till played the leading function, continuing his role in the moment, third and fourth seasons. This leading function allowed him to receive the nominating speech in 2018 in the twentieth edition of the Teen Choice Awards in the category of Choice TV Actor : action, a nominating speech that he besides received in 2019 in the 21st broadcast of the Teen Choice Awards in the lapp category. [ 54 ] In addition to the leading function, Till collaborated in the production of the 13 episodes that make up the fourthly season of the series. [ 55 ] In 2019, he collaborated again with CBS Cares in a television receiver campaign in support of the contend against lupus. [ 56 ] He renewed his contract in 2020 to continue his lead role in the fifth temper of MacGyver. [ 57 ] Till has said in interviews that he was the subject of verbal maltreatment and bodyshaming from the showrunner of MacGyver, Peter Lenkov. [ 58 ] Till reported being self-destructive in the first class of the film of MacGyver due to Lenkov ‘s mistreat. [ 59 ] Lenkov was subsequently fired from CBS on July 7, 2020. [ 60 ] Till played Bob Zellner, the grandson of a member of the Ku Klux Klan, who joins the civil rights motion in the United States in the film Son of the South. His character in the film, based on Zellner ‘s autobiography The Wrong Side of Murder Creek, received critical applaud. [ 61 ]

Filmography [edit ]

public treasury at the San Diego Comic-Con International, July 23, 2011

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producer [edit ]

Year Title Notes
2011 All Superheroes Must Die Co-producer
2013 Wet and Reckless
2014 My Eleventh
2017 Spectrum
2020 MacGyver

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