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

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Biography

Personal life

Haas was born in West Hollywood, California, the son of Emily Tracy, a writer, and Berthold Haas, an artist.^[1] He has twin brothers, Simon Jakoway, an artist/musician, and Nikolai Johannes Haas, a musician/artist. His uncles were in a German new wave band called Steinwolke.^[2] He is friends with Leonardo DiCaprio.^[3] West Hollywoods logo illustrates the citys borders. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated, SAG Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997). ...

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 acclaimed theater productions. His first screen role was as the youngest child in Jane Alexander's doomed family in the powerful but bleak "Testament".

Lukas’ star rose in 1984, when, at the age of seven, he landed the titled role of ‘Samuel’ opposite Harrison Ford in the Peter Weir film, Witness. His performance as the Amish child who is the sole witness to an undercover cop’s murder won the hearts of moviegoers and the acclaim of the critics. Young Lukas soon landed starring roles in such films as Lady In White, The Wizard of Loneliness, and Alan and Naomi, which was co-written by his mother, Emily Tracy Haas. This article is about the year. ... This article is about witnesses in law courts. ... This article is about Old Order Amish, but also refers to other Amish sects. ...

Lukas was subsequently nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of AIDS victim, Ryan White, in the controversial TV movie, The Ryan White Story. He continued to distinguish himself in film in starring roles opposite some of the most celebrated actors and directors of our time including: Jessica Lange in The Music Box, for director Costa Gavras, Robert Duvall (whom Lukas first starred opposite one year earlier in Convicts) and Laura Dern in Rambling Rose, and John C. Reilly and Winona Ryder in Boys. For other uses, see AIDS (disambiguation). ... Ryan Wayne White (December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990[1]) was a young man with AIDS from Kokomo, Indiana who became a national spokesman for AIDS, after being expelled from school because of his infection. ... Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. ... The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. ... Constantinos Gavras (born February 12, 1933, Loutra-Iraias, Greece), better known as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French filmmaker best known for films with overt political themes. ... Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an Academy Award-, two-time Emmy Award-, and four-time Golden Globe Award-winning American film actor and director. ... Laura Elizabeth Dern-Harper (born February 10, 1967) is an American actress. ... Rambling Rose is a 1991 film set in 1930s Georgia starring Laura Dern and Diane Ladd. ... John Christopher Reilly (born May 24, 1965) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Winona Laura Horowitz[1] (born October 29, 1971), better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is a two-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress. ...

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Lukas went on to work with acclaimed directors such as Woody Allen for Everyone Says I Love You, Tim Burton for Mars Attacks, and Alan Rudolph for The Breakfast of Champions, to name just a few. Lukas’s most recent work includes Brick, which was released by Focus Features after screening in competition at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Last Days directed by Gus Van Sant, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was released by HBO Films and Material Girls released by MGM in which he portrays a "good-guy" attorney doing pro bono work for two sisters, one of whom — Haylie Duff — becomes his love interest. In The Tripper, a send-up of slasher films directed by David Arquette he's the love interest of Jaime King. In Who Loves the Sun, co-starring Adam Scott and Molly Parker he stars as a jilted ex-husband. Additionally he stars in Gardener of Eden directed by Kevin Connolly and produced by Graham King and Leonardo DiCaprio and recently completed shooting While She Was Out opposite Kim Basinger. Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian and playwright. ... Everyone Says I Love You (1996) is a musical film written and directed by Woody Allen. ... Timothy Tim William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated American film director, writer and designer notable for the quirky and often dark atmosphere in his high-profile films. ... Mars Attacks is a highly popular lurid science fiction trading card series. ... Alan Rudolph (born 18 December 1943 in Los Angeles) is an American film director and screenwriter. ... For a more general eschatological view, see eschatology The Last Judgement - Tympanum sculpture at the Abbey Church of Ste-Foy, Conques-en-Rouergue, France The end times are, in one version of Christian eschatology, a time of tribulation that will precede the Second Coming of Jesus. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival de Cannes), founded in 1939, is one of the worlds oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals. ...

In addition to his film work, Lukas continues to pursue his other passion, music, and has performed with the band Outkast and with Macy Gray and is working on an album now.

Music

Haas is also a musician and has a MySpace Music page which features four songs, including "Kemp", and "In Between". He plays the drums and piano for a band called The Rogues. He has appeared in My Chemical Romance's music video for "Welcome to the Black Parade," in which he plays the role of The Patient. Haas has a cameo in OutKast's music video for "Roses," where he portrays the role as one of the Love Below members. Haas also can be seen in the music video for "International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)" by rap group UGK. In the heyday of the Black Cat Lounge (94-95) in Austin, TX, Lukas played keyboards for a local band called Savior Sol. My Chemical Romance are an American rock band formed in 2001. ... Additional covers CD cover Welcome to the Black Parade is the first single and fifth track from My Chemical Romances third studio album, The Black Parade. ... This article is about the hip hop group. ... Roses is a track by OutKast from their 2003 double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. ... International Players Anthem (I Choose You) is the latest single by UGK on their album UGK (Underground Kingz), featuring OutKast. ... UGK (short for Underground Kingz) is a hip-hop duo from Port Arthur, Texas. ...

Filmography

• While She Was Out (2008)
• Death in Love (2008)
• Alpha Dog (2007)
• The Tripper (2007)
• Who Loves the Sun (2006)
• Material Girls (2006)
• The Darwin Awards (2006)
• The Youth in Us (2005)
• Last Days (2005)
• Brick (2005)
• Bookies (2003)
• Long Time Dead (2002)
• Zoolander (2001)
• Breakfast of Champions (1999)
• David and Lisa (1998) (TV)
• Johns (1996)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• Boys (1996)
• Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
• Leap of Faith (1992)
• Alan and Naomi (1992)
• Rambling Rose (1991)
• The Ryan White Story (1989)
• Music Box (1989)
• Lady in White (1988)
• Solarbabies (1986)
• Witness (1985)
• Testament (1983)

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References

External links

• Lukas Haas at the Internet Movie Database
• Lukas Haas on MySpace Music