The bestLukas Gagemovies and TV shows are impressive for such a young actor. Before ever turning 30 years old, Gage built up a solid batch of roles on both widely-watched streaming shows and some popular movies, proving his range as an actor. He has wanted to be an actor since he was a child, and even went to film camp every summer, picking up roles in plays and television commercials to strengthen his acting skills. After some short films, he got his big break in 2015.
That was the yearhe got the role inScouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypsewhen he was 20. The very next year, he got his first leading television role in the go90 streaming seriesTagged. That was just the start, and Gage was able to parlay that into several other TV show appearances, including big roles onEuphoria, The White Lotus, You,andFargo. He also got some movie opportunities along the way, and even has big roles down the line,including the sequel to the horror sequel toSmile.
Road House
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Road House is a remake of the original 1989 film, which followed protagonist Dalton, a Ph.D. educated bouncer at the roughest bar in the south known as the Double Deuce. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Dalton, with two major changes including Dalton being a retired UFC fighter and the bar locale being in the Florida Keys.
Lukas Gage joined the cast of theRoad Houseremake that streamed on Prime Video in 2024. The movie re-imagined the original Patrick Swayze action flick, with Jake Gyllenhaal taking on the lead role. This time around, Gyllenhaal is a former UFC fighter who is hired to try to help clean up a bar that has been overrun by a local crime boss and his motorcycle gang lackeys. There were several characters that werecounterparts of the originalRoad House’scast.
For Lukas Gate, he playedBilly, who was this movie’s version of Hank from the Swayze version.Billy is someone who works at the bar and is a huge fan of Gyllenhaal’s Elwood Dalton from his UFC fighting days. He starts as a bartender, but Elwood soon moves him to a bouncer position, and he becomes a student to Elwood, so when he leaves, he knows someone will be able to keep things safe there. The film received average reviews, sitting at 69% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Dead Boy Detectives
Based on the DC series, Dead Boy Detectives is a supernatural comedy-mystery series created for Netflix. Two young men from different find one another in death but decide to skip the afterlife and remain among the living with a new purpose - to solve various supernatural mysteries the way only two deceased detectives can.
In 2024, Lukas Gage took on a role in the Netflix supernatural seriesDead Boy Detectives. The show follows the ghosts of Charles Rowland and Edwin Payne, two men who decide not to move on to the afterlife. Instead,they decide to stay on Earth and work as ghostly private detectives, investigating crimes surrounding the supernatural. Edwin was killed in 1916 in a classmate prank gone wrong and Charles died in 1989 after his classmates attacked and killed him.
Dead Boy Detectives Cast & Character Guide
Dead Boy Detectives' supernatural drama is driven by its intriguing characters, portrayed by a talented group of familiar faces & lesser-known actors.
Lukas Gage takes on a recurring role in the series as Cat King,a magical cat who is able to take on human form. Gage first shows up in the premiere episode when Edwin uses a charm to force a talking cat to work for him. However, this angers the Cat King, who puts a spell on Edwin that prevents the ghostly detective from being able to leave Port Townsend.Dead Boy Detectiveswas a huge critical favorite, with a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score, but Netflix canceled it after one season.
Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation is a black comedy thriller directed by Sam Levinson. The film follows four high school girls in the town of Salem who become the target of mass hysteria and violence after a hacker leaks private information about the residents.
In 2018, Lukas Gage joined the cast of the controversial movie,Assassination Nation. The film takes place in a fictional town called Salem, whichdevolves into chaos and violence when a computer hacker leaks personal secrets about many of the town’s residents. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and then was released theoretically later in 2018. Though it received positive reviews for its energy and action, it was also criticized for its intense scenes of violence.
The critic’s praise helped it end up with a 74% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes
Lukas Gage had a small role in the movie as a character named Eric. The film was a box office bomb, possibly because of the concerns about the violence and themes of the story, as it wasn’t able to make back its small budget. However, the critic’s praise helped it end up with a 74% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, although the audience Popcornmeter score is a lower 55%. In earned three Film Threat nominations, winning for Indie Cinematographer.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Loosely based on the book of the same name, How to Blow Up a Pipeline is an environmentally focused thriller film that follows a group of eight people who aim to destroy a Texas pipeline to reduce the negative impact it has created. The film explores the morality behind destructive activism for a world increasingly threatened by climate change.
How to Blow Up a Pipelinewas a 2022 release based on the nonfiction novel by Andreas Malm. The book argues that sabotage is a logical form of climate activism, while also criticizing people who protest passively and those who deny that climate change exists. The movie is set in West Texas andfollows eight young adults who decide they will blow up an oil pipeline at two different locations, while also exploring the moral validity of such extremism in the name of climate crisis.
Lukas Gage is Logan, one of the eight young adults involved in the acts of sabotage.
Lukas Gage is Logan, one of the eight young adults involved in the acts of sabotage. He is dating Rowan (Kristine Froseth), and they are both swept up in the ideals of the movement. However, Rowan is also an FBI informant, which makes things dangerous for everyone involved. The movie only received a small, limited release but was a huge critical hit. Critics praised the movie, earning it a 94% Rotten Tomatoes fresh score.
The White Lotus
The White Lotus is a television series that explores the interactions of guests and staff at an upscale tropical resort. Premiering in 2021, the narrative unfolds over a week, revealing underlying complexities and tensions among the resort’s seemingly ideal travelers and employees.
The White Lotusis an HBO black comedy series that has ended up as an anthology series surrounding the fictional resort. The first season featured drama, affairs, and murder, with the true villains not revealed until the end. The cast was fantastic, led by names like Jennifer Coolidge, Connie Britton, Molly Shannon, Sydney Sweeney, and Steve Zahn.Lukas Gage was one of the more important recurring cast members, playing a young staffer named Dillon.
White Lotusalso won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.
The first season was a huge success, with large viewing numbers and a 90% fresh approval score on Rotten Tomatoes.White Lotusalso won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor for Murray Bartlett, and both Outstanding Directing and Outstanding Writing for show creator Mike White. HBO also brought the series back for a second season, but Lukas Gage’s character did not return.
American Vandal
American Vandal is a satirical true crime series created by Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda. Released in 2017, the show follows aspiring documentarian Peter Maldonado as he investigates a high school prank involving obscene graffiti. The series humorously deconstructs the genre’s conventions while exploring themes of adolescence and social dynamics within a high school setting.
American Vandalis a Netflix mockumentary series that spoofs the true-crime shows that remain extremely popular in the days of streaming docuseries. InAmerican Vandal, the true-crime docuseries is turned on its head when two high school students start to create a feature surrounding a crime that took place in school when a prank left 27 cars vandalized with phallic images. The entire crime was ludicrous, as was the investigation of the documentary crew as they sought to find the truth.
There was also a second season that followed another prank, this time at a Catholic private school where someone contaminated the cafeteria’s lemonade with Malitol, giving everyone who drank it diarrhea. Tyler Alvarez and Griffin Gluck starred in both seasons as high school documentary filmmakers. As for Lukas Gage,he was a cast member in the first season, a student named Brandon who is dating Gabby, a popular girl who helps with the investigation.American Vandalwon a Peabody Award.
Love Victor
Love, Victor is a spinoff of the 2018 film Love, Simon, starring Nick Robinson. Instead of focusing on Simon’s story, Love, Victor centers on Victor Salazar (Michael Cimino), who, after moving to a new city, must juggle the stresses of high school as he figures out his sexual identity. The series ran for three seasons between 2020 and 2022 on Disney+ and Hulu.
Love, Victoris a Hulu original series that is a sequel to the movieLove, Simon. The series takes place in the same world, but is based on Victor, a new student who is struggling with his sexual orientation and reaches out to Simon (Nick Robinson from the movie) for advice on how to navigate school had home with his recent challenges. Michael Cimino stars as Victor in the Hulu series, while Lukas Gage is a recurring character named Derek.
Love, Victorwon several Imagen Awards during its run.
Derek is dating Benji (George Sear) in the first season, Victor’s openly gay and confident crush at school. The first season sees Derek and Benji in a solid relationship for over a year, but eventually, the two break up and Benji starts to date Derek in the season’s finale. Derek returns in season 2 in a guest role, where he remains friends with Benji despite their breakup.Love, Victorwon several Imagen Awards during its run, including Best Actor for Michael Cimino twice.
You
You is a psychological thriller that follows a dangerously charming and intensely obsessive young man who manipulates his way into the lives of those he fixates upon, using extreme measures to pursue his unsettling aims.
Youis a Netflix original series based on the novels by Caroline Kepnes. The books (and series) follow a charismatic serial killer named Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley). He is a young man who wants to find love, but also has a hard time dealing with rejection and not being in control. This leads him to killing most of the women that he felt he loved when he realized it wasn’t going to work out.By the time Lukas Gage joined the cast in the fourth season, Joe had already committed numerous atrocities.
However, Gage’s time in the drama series lasted only one season, as he ended up getting killed before the season’s end.
Gage plays a character named Adam Pratt, an American playboy from a wealthy family who owns an elite London social club. He is dating (and later marries) Lady Phoebe (Tilly Keeper), who is part of the royal family. However, Gage’s time in the drama series lasted only one season, as he ended up getting killed before the season’s end. The fourth season picked up critical acclaim with a 92% approval rating.
Fargo
Fargo is a Black Comedy Crime Drama television series that is based on the film of the same name, which was originally created by the Coen Brothers. The TV adaptation was developed by Noah Hawley and follows an anthology format for each of its seasons, taking place in a different time period or location within the “Fargo” universe. So far, the series has seen big-name stars like Billy Bob Thornton, Ewan McGregor, Chris Rock, and Kirsten Dunst.
Fargois an FX anthology series that is based on the Coen Brothers movie of the same name. Each season of the series is a crime drama that is often tinged with black humor and has the same bungling wannabe criminals as the movie. Each of the five seasons has different casts, different stories, and even different locations, making each release different from the one that came before.Lukas Gage appeared in the fifth season of the series.
The fifth season stars Juno Temple as Dot Lyon, a housewife who is arrested after she tasers an officer during a riot at her daughter’s school board meeting. However, after her arrest, she ends up kidnapped and proves that she has a specific skill set that makes her very dangerous to anyone who wants to hurt her.Gage plays Lars, the husband of a deputyinvestigating Dot’s kidnapping. This specific season has a 93% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and earned 15 Emmy nominations.
Euphoria
Euphoria is a teen drama created by Sam Levinson and starring Zendaya, Maude Apatow, and Angus Cloud. The series deals with the dark reality of a drug-addicted teen on her road to recovery as she faces a multitude of challenges and issues.
Euphoriais an HBO drama series with Zendaya starring as Rue, a queer teenage drug adduct who returns home from rehab and struggles to find her place in the real world. The series has an incredible cast of young adults, with Maude Apatow, Hunter Schafer, Storm Reid, and Sydney Sweeney among the high schoolers struggling to make it through high school alive.As for Lukas Gage, he was a recurring character in the first seasonof the series named Tyler Clarkson.
Tyler is a high school student who hooks up with Maddy (Alexa Demie) when she wants to make Nate (Jacob Elordi) jealous. He is also someone who plays a very important role in limited appearances. His hookup with Maddy leads to Nate going to his house and beating him up before realizing Tyler is really 22, meaning his hookup with Maddy constitutes statutory rape. That sets off a wild series of events. The first season has an 80% fresh Rotten Tomatoes score.Euphoriahas won seven Emmy Awards in 21 nominations.
