The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - Lucas Black as Shaun Boswell

Lucas Black as Shaun Boswell

Real Name: Lucas Black

Born: Dacantur, Alabama on 11/29/1982

Profession: Actor

Lucas Black recently co-starred in a Sam Mendes' wartime drama, Jarhead, starring Jake Gyllenaal, Jamie Foxx and Peter Sarsgaard. Prior to that, he co-starred in Peter Berg's 2004 football drama Friday Night Lights opposite Billy Bob Thornton.

Black has a longstanding relationship with Thornton which began with his unforgettable performance as Frank Wheatley, the boy who compassionately befriends a mentally handicapped murderer in Thornton's Oscar winning Sling Blade. He shared a Screen Actors Guild nomination with the film's ensemble cast and won the Young Artists Award, the first of four nominations for this honor. He reunited once again with Thornton with the role as the boyish misfit, Jimmy Blevins, in Thornton's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses.

Without any formal acting training, the Alabama native made an auspicious debut at age 11 opposite star Kevin Costner in John Avnet's 1994 feature, The War. The performance helped him land the role of Caleb Temple in the CBS supernatural drama, American Gothic. He continued an active acting career in such projects as Rob Reiner's The Ghosts of Mississippi, Antonio Banderas' directorial debut, Crazy in Alabama, and Rob Bowman's big screen version of The X Files.

Black, who graduated from Speake High School in 2001 (where he played football, baseball, basketball and golf), also appeared alongside Oscar nominee Jude Law in Anthony Minghella's Academy Award nominated Civil War epic, Cold Mountain and in the independent features Killer Diller and Deepwater, a noirish thriller also starring Peter Coyote. He has also appeared in guest-starring roles on Chicago Hope and in Disney's movie-of-the-week, Flash.