- 2008: Cast in the off-Broadway premiere of "Fault Lines," directed by David Schwimmer
- 2006: Starred in director Wolfgang Petersen's remake of "The Poseidon Adventure"
- 2006: Portrayed legendary college basketball coach, Don Haskins in Jerry Bruckheimer's "Glory Road"
- 2005: Portrayed the Gentleman Caller opposite Jessica Lange in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie"
- 2005: Starred as fighter pilot Ben Gannon in the big budget "Stealth" opposite Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel
- 2004: Played the greedy, troubled uncle in the dramatic thriller "Undertow"
- 2004: Cast opposite Michael Caine and Christopher Walken in the drama "Around the Bend"
- 2003: Cast with Jennifer Connelly and Eric Bana in Ang Lee’s "Hulk"
- 2002: Acted in Victor Nunez' "Coastlines"; screened at Sundance
- 2002: Cast as the estranged husband of a Southern woman who reinvents herself as a Park Avenue socialite in "Sweet Home Alabama"
- 2001: Cast the nemesis of Russell Crowe's John Forbes Nash in Ron Howard’s Oscar-winning "A Beautiful Mind"
- 2001: Played Darby Reese whose untimely death sets off a chain of events in "The Deep End"
- 2001: Acted in the Brad Anderson-directed thriller "Session 9"
- 2000: Cast as one of the Wall Street cohorts of Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho"
- 2000: Played the ne'er-do-well former husband of Sammy (Laura Linney) in "You Can Count on Me"
- 2000: Co-starred as Sean Penn's brother in "The Weight of Water"; screened at Toronto; released theatrically in USA in 2002
- 1998: Appeared in the controversial Off-Broadway play "Corpus Christi"
- 1998: Played the caddish lover of a young American woman in China in "Restless"; released theatrically in USA in 2000
- 1995: Cast as Major Jace 'Flash' Dillon in "Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger"
- 1993: Feature film debut, "Alive"; played one of the members of a rugby team who are on a plane that crashes in the Andes
- 1993: Had regular role of Luke McGregor on "Snowy River: The McGregor Saga" (Family Channel)
- 1993: Cast as George Armstrong Custer in the ABC drama "Class of '61"
- 1991: TV-movie debut, "Child of Darkness, Child of Light" (USA)
- 1990: Early TV credit (billed as Joshua Lucas), an episode of the FOX sitcom "True Colors"
- Family moved frequently throughout the South; eventually settled in Washington state




