Background
Pucci was born in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
Pucci was born in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
Pucci went on to star in a multitude of indie films, including The Chumscrubber (2005), Fast Food Nation (2006), The Go-Getter (2007), Explicit Ills (2008), and Carriers (2009). Most recently, Pucci had starring roles in the 2013 Evil Dead remake, as well as The Story of Luke (2013) and Spring (2014). His mother, Linda Farver, is a former model and beauty queen, and his father, Louis Pucci, worked as a guitarist for the bands The Watch and Leap of Faith.
He is a graduate of Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey.
He first acted at the age of ten in a hometown production of Oliver!. Just two years later he acted as an understudy on Broadway playing Freidrich in The Sound of Music.
He also played the title character in Green Day"s "Jesus of Suburbia" music video. In 2009, Pucci had three films that screened at the Sundance Festival: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, directed by John Krasinski of The Office.
The Informers, with Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, based on Bret Easton Ellis" collection of short stories of the same name.
And Arlen Faber (formerly The Dream of the Romans) with Jeff Daniels and Lauren Graham. Pucci was also a juror for the short film competition. Pucci had roles in multiple indie films for the latter part of the decade, and had a leading role playing an autistic man in The Story of Luke (2013), alongside Seth Green.
He also had a starring role in the Evil Dead (2013) remake, based on Sam Raimi"s 1981 original and played one of the leading roles in the thriller Spring.
He also portrayed Ben in the upcoming Thriller film Ava"s Possessions and had a role in Lucas Elliot Eberl and Edgar Morais drama film You Above All. In November 2014, Pucci starred as Teddy Courtney in a Law & Order: Special Victims Unit-Chicago P.D. crossover.
Pucci had his breakthrough leading role in the critically acclaimed Thumbsucker (2005), for which he won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He can be seen in Arie Posin"s The Chumscrubber, the Home Box Office miniseries Empire Falls, and starring as the lead in Mike Mills" film Thumbsucker, for which he received the Special Jury Prize for Acting at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival.
