Jonathan Tucker

Jonathan Moss Tucker (born May 31, 1982) is an American film and television actor, best known for his roles in the movies The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hostage, In the Valley of Elah and The Ruins, and The Black Donnellys on television. Tucker was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Maggie Moss, a public relations and marketing analyst and executive, and Paul Hayes Tucker, a curator, writer, and university professor who is an expert on Claude Monet and French Impressionism. Jonathan's father is of English and Irish Catholic background and his mother is Jewish. His paternal great-grandfather was historian and ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes. Tucker was raised in Boston's heavily Irish Charlestown neighborhood, but attended The Park School in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended summer camp at Camp Chingachgook on Lake George in Pilot Knob, New York (in the Adirondacks) during the 1990s. He attended the Boston Ballet and played 'Fritz' in their production of The Nutcracker when he was in third grade. He was also featured in a Boston Ballet calendar and attended the Thacher School in Ojai, California.

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