---
name: "Lou Taylor Pucci"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lou-taylor-pucci"
fi1m_id: "lou-taylor-pucci"
imdb_id: "nm1086384"
tmdb_id: 17441
wikidata_id: "Q708512"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 July 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T21:31:28.072461+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lou Taylor Pucci

## Identity

Lou Taylor Pucci

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lou-taylor-pucci
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lou-taylor-pucci
- **IMDb ID:** nm1086384
- **TMDB ID:** 17441
- **Wikidata ID:** Q708512
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Taylor_Pucci, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708512, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1086384/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17441

Actor. Born 27 July 1985 in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 July 1985, Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA
- **Active:** 2011–2018
- **Also known as:** Lou Pucci, 루 테일러 푸치
- **Berlin International Film Festival:** 1 Berlin prize (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Taylor_Pucci, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708512, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1086384/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17441

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Beginners*](https://film.one/film/beginners.md) (79)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lou Taylor Pucci is an American actor. He was born on 27 July 1985 in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. He made his feature film debut in Rebecca Miller's *Personal Velocity: Three Portraits* (2002).

Pucci's breakthrough came with the leading role in Mike Mills's *Thumbsucker* (2005), for which he received a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival. He has appeared in films including *The Chumscrubber* (2005), *Fast Food Nation* (2006), *Carriers* (2009), *Beginners* (2010) and the 2013 remake of *Evil Dead*, in which he played Eric. His television credits include roles in *American Horror Story*, *You* and *Chicago P.D.*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, tvinsider.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *You* (2018), Fi1m 72, as Benji — [page](https://film.one/tv/you.md)
- *Beginners* (2011), Fi1m 79, as Magician — [page](https://film.one/film/beginners.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lockbox* (2026), as Winthrop Benson
- *Touch Me* (2026), as Brian
- *Daredevil: Born Again* (2025), series, as Adam — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/daredevil-born-again.md)
- *Ex-Husbands* (2024), as Aaron
- *Moon Manor* (2022), as Andrew
- *Physical* (2021), series, as Tyler
- *The False Mirror* (2019), as Noah
- *A Good Dinner Party* (2019), as Dave
- *You* (2018), series, as Benji — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/you.md)
- *A-X-L* (2018), as Randall
- *Poor Boy* (2018), as Romeo Griggs
- *keep your chin up* (2016), as Vincent
- *Younger* (2015), series, as Travis Jason
- *Ava's Possessions* (2015), as Ben
- *Spring* (2014), as Evan
- *Halt and Catch Fire* (2014), series, as Heath — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/halt-and-catch-fire.md)
- *Chicago P.D.* (2014), series, as Teddy Courtney
- *All Together Now* (2013), as Ron
- *Evil Dead* (2013), as Eric
- *The Story of Luke* (2013), as Luke
- *Jack & Diane* (2012), as Tom
- *American Horror Story* (2011), series, as Jonas Shevoore
- *Beginners* (2011), as Magician — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/beginners.md)
- *The Music Never Stopped* (2011), as Gabriel Sawyer
- *The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy* (2011), as Kid Called Kelly
- *Shameless* (2011), series, as Lou (Masked Man #2) — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md)
- *Brotherhood* (2010), as Kevin
- *Brief Interviews with Hideous Men* (2009), as Evan / Subject #28
- *Carriers* (2009), as Danny Green
- *The Answer Man* (2009), as Kris Lucas
- *Fault Line* (2009), Actor
- *Fanboys* (2009), as Boba Fett #1
- *Horsemen* (2009), as Alex Breslin
- *The Informers* (2008), as Tim Price
- *Explicit Ills* (2008), as Jacob
- *Southland Tales* (2007), as Martin Kefauver
- *The Go-Getter* (2007), as Mercer
- *Fast Food Nation* (2006), as Gerald 'Paco'
- *Fifty Pills* (2006), as Darren
- *Thumbsucker* (2005), as Justin Cobb
- *The Chumscrubber* (2005), as Lee
- *Empire Falls* (2005), series, as John Voss
- *Personal Velocity* (2002), as Kevin
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Joey Frost
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Teddy Courtney
- *The Avalanche*, Actor
- *Devil Inside*, as Alex

## Gallery

- ![Lou Taylor Pucci, actor, at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for Touch Me](https://film.one/media/person/1265464/gallery-1fb0b0a65c28.jpg) Lou Taylor Pucci, actor, at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for Touch Me — Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Lou_Taylor_Pucci_at_the_2025_Sundance_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Lou_Taylor_Pucci_at_the_2025_Sundance_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lou Taylor Pucci](https://film.one/media/person/1265464/gallery-d7355c2eb97a.jpg) Lou Taylor Pucci — Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Lou_Taylor_Pucci_at_the_2025_Sundance_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Lou_Taylor_Pucci_at_the_2025_Sundance_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lou Taylor Pucci speaking at the 2013 WonderCon at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.](https://film.one/media/person/1265464/gallery-65dab78ad8ff.jpg) Lou Taylor Pucci speaking at the 2013 WonderCon at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Lou_Taylor_Pucci_WonderCon_2013.jpg/1280px-Lou_Taylor_Pucci_WonderCon_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lou Taylor Pucci](https://film.one/media/person/1265464/gallery-e106bbc50f4b.jpg) Lou Taylor Pucci — Image via TMDB
- ![Lou Taylor Pucci](https://film.one/media/person/1265464/gallery-31a335305ba9.jpg) Lou Taylor Pucci — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won

- 2005: Best Actor (won), for *Thumbsucker*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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