Brad Renfro

Known for ActingBorn 1982-07-25Died 2008-01-15Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Car Kid

BIOHAZARD 2 TV-CM

The Cure

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Sleepers

Ghost World

The Theory of the Leisure Class

2 Little, 2 Late

The Jacket

Bully

The Client

Apt Pupil

Mummy an' the Armadillo

10th & Wolf

Skipped Parts

Telling Lies in America

Deuces Wild

American Girl

Happy Campers

Tom and Huck

Collector

The Informers

The Job

Hollywood Flies

Tart

Child Star Confidential

Making of Biohazard 2 TV-CM