Lou Taylor Pucci (born July 27, 1985) is an American actor who first appeared on film in Rebecca Miller's well-received Personal Velocity: Three Portraits in 2002. 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. 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).