Luke Wilson

Luke Wilson’s career started in 1994 with James L. Brooks production of Columbia Pictures’ Bottle Rocket that was also the debut of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson. A collaboration that continued with Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums.

Wilson’s work has ranged from dramas to the iconic comedies Idiocracy, The Family Stone, Legally Blonde, and Old School. And in the world of comedy he collaborated with Adam Sandler, Kristen Wiig, Tracy Morgan, Ben Stiller, Martin Lawrence, and five films to date with Will Ferrell.

Wilson considers himself lucky to have worked alongside such Hollywood legends as Gene Hackman, Ben Kingsley, Angelica Huston, Nick Nolte, Diane Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jeff Bridges. His forays into television have included work with Mike White, Vince Gilligan, and D.C. Comics’ Geoff Johns. His admiration of musicians has found him on projects such as the film Masked and Anonymous with Bob Dylan, and projects with Cameron Crowe, Jimmy Buffett, Tom Petty, and Kris Kristofferson.

Wilson’s work as a writer has produced the film The Wendell Baker Story which he also co-directed with his brother Andrew starring Eva Mendes and Harry Dean Stanton as well as the award-winning short film Satellite Beach as well as the upcoming Mexican Baseball movie Juarez 9 and Pecos River Bridge both of which Wilson wrote.

Wilson most recently starred in Ty Roberts’ Little League baseball film You Gotta Believe and Kevin Costner’s Horizon. 

On the TV side, Luke stars in Netflix’s No Good Deed, opposite Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow. He can also be seen in the Sony Pictures Classic Depression era football film 12 Mighty Orphans in which Wilson starred as legendary Texas football coach Rusty Russell.