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Lurie Poston

American actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ10870373 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lurie Poston is an American actor and singer.

Poston began his career in the cast of the Broadway Musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, acting in over 300 performances. In 2003, he had a small part playing Young Varla in the film Girls Will Be Girls. He also appeared in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), played Tommy Huff in Step Brothers (2008), and Knucklehead (2010); and had a starring role as Joshua Dowd in James Vasquez's 2008 award-winning feature film Ready? OK!, with Carrie Preston and Michael Emerson.

In November 2011, Poston guest-starred in the season finale of the television show Workaholics, playing Damien Carmichael. He also played Trevor in the 2014 Kickin' It episode "Martinez & Malone: Mall Cops!".

Poston attended the University of Southern California.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lurie Poston” is american actor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lurie, Poston and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2007, 2008, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-09-30. For this dossier, Lurie, Poston and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american actor” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10870373. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2010.

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A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lurie Poston” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.