Brad Renfro
Brad Barron Renfro (July 25, 1982 – January 15, 2008) was an American actor. was an American actor born on July 25, 1982 in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Angela Denise McCrory and Mark Renfro, a factory worker. He was discovered at age 10 by director Joel Schumacher and made his film debut cast in the lead role of the motion picture The Client (1994), which starred Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. Although this would be his zenith, he went on to appear in other films, including The Cure (1995), Tom and Huck (1995), Sleepers (1996), and Apt Pupil (1998). He went on to star in a total of 21 feature films, several short films, and two television episodes during his career. Renfro won The Hollywood Reporter's Young Star Award in 1995 and was nominated as one of People magazine's "Top 30 Under 30," though addiction problems in his teens and early 20s led to several police arrests and much of his later career was marred by a pattern of substance abuse which hampered his career. He died from a heroin overdose on January 15, 2008, at the young age of 25.
Known For
Credits
- 2010 · Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self (archive footage)
- 2008 · The Informers as Jack
- 2008 · Collector as
- 2006 · 10th & Wolf as Vincent
- 2005 · Hollywood Flies as Jamie
- 2005 · The Jacket as The Stranger
- 2004 · Mummy an' the Armadillo as Wyatte
- 2003 · The Job as Troy Riverside
- 2002 · The Car Kid as Vernon
- 2002 · Deuces Wild as Bobby
- 2002 · American Girl as Jay Grubb
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Duane Winslow
- 2001 · Ghost World as Josh
- 2001 · Bully as Marty Puccio
- 2001 · The Theory of the Leisure Class as Billy
- 2001 · Tart as William Sellers
- 2001 · Happy Campers as Wichita
- 2000 · Skipped Parts as Dothan Talbot
- 1999 · 2 Little, 2 Late as Jimmy Walsh
- 1998 · Apt Pupil as Todd Bowden
- 1997 · Telling Lies in America as Karchy 'Chucky' Jonas
- 1996 · Sleepers as Young Michael Sullivan
- 1995 · Tom and Huck as Huck Finn
- 1995 · The Cure as Erik
- 1994 · The Client as Mark Sway