Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer was born on the 20th June 1971 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA and is an actor best known for his roles in movies such as “Sweet Home Alabama” (2002), “Hulk” (2003) “Stealth” (2005) as well as “Poseidon” (2006), “Glory Road” (2006) and “Red Dog” (2011).
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this talented actor has accumulated so far? How rich Josh Lucas is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total amount of Josh Lucas’ net worth, as of mid-2016, is over $16 million. It has been primarily acquired throughout his acting career that has been active since the 1990s.
Josh Lucas Net Worth $16 Million
Josh was born as the eldest of four children of a nurse midwife, Michele and an ER physician, Don Maurer. Due to his parents anti-nuclear activism, he moved quite a lot at a young age – by the age of 13, he had already lived in almost 30 different locations. Josh Lucas attended Kopachuck Middle School and later matriculated from Gig Harbor High School.
Subsequently, at the age of 19 Josh Lucas transferred to Hollywood to pursue a career in acting. Some of his first roles include appearances in “True Colors” and “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose” sitcoms. These were followed by minor roles in TV movies “Child of Darkness, Child of Light” (1991) and “Class of ‘61” (1993) in which he starred alongside Clive Owen, still unknown at that time, and a role in Frank Marshall’s 1993 drama “Alive”. All these engagements provided the basis for Josh Lucas’ net worth.
In 1994, Josh Lucas moved to Australia, to act in the first season of a family western TV series “Snowy River: The McGregor Saga” in which he starred opposing Guy Pearce and Andrew Clarke. The role of Luke McGregor has certainly helped Josh Lucas to increase his popularity as well as his net worth.
Upon returning to the States, Josh moved to New York City where he took acting lessons from various acting coaches in order to improve his acting skills, which he demonstrated in the 1996 British sport drama movie “True Blue.” During the course of the next several years, Josh managed to keep up an uninterrupted string of various acting engagements which included several small, movie roles and an off-Broadway production “Corpus Christi”. These involvements have helped him to increase his overall wealth.
The real breakthrough in Josh Lucas’ career came after he starred alongside Christian Bale in the 2000 cult drama “American Psycho” which was followed by several larger roles in more high-profile films such as “You Can Count on Me” (2000) and “When Strangers Appear” (2001). Lucas’ career started blooming after he secured one of the leading roles in the 2002 romantic comedy “Sweet Home Alabama” opposite Reese Witherspoon. Doubtlessly, these engagements have added a significant sum to Josh Lucas’ overall net worth.
In his career so far, Josh Lucas has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the film industry including, apart from those already mentioned, Ridley Scott, Nicolas Cage, Dustin Hoffman, Jennifer Aniston, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Lopez, Robert Redford, Jessica Biel and Morgan Freeman in movies such as “An Unfinished Life” (2005), “Peacock” (2010) and “Stolen” (2012). It is certain that all these references have made a huge, positive impact on Josh Lucas’ career and the total amount of money in his possession.
The most recent works of Josh Lucas include the leading role in NBC’s crime drama TV series “The Mysteries of Laura”.
In his active years so far, apart from movies and TV series Josh Lucas has also featured in Wing Commander III: Hearth of the Tiger cinematic, PC video game flight simulator.
When it comes to his personal life, Josh Lucas was married between 2012 and 2014 to freelance writer Jessica Ciencin Henriquez with whom he has one child.
Josh Lucas has been active as a YouthAIDS Ambassador since 2005. He is also the co-founder and co-owner of Filthy Food, the company focused on producing premium drink garnishes.
