Brad Barron Renfro 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.

Filmography

• 2008Collector
• 2008The Informers — Jack, In Memory Of
• 200610th & Wolf — Vincent
• 2005Hollywood Flies — Jamie
• 2005The Jacket — The Stranger
• 2004The Mummy an' the Armadillo — Wyatte
• 2003The Job — Troy Riverside
• 2002American Girl — Jay Grubb
• 2002Deuces Wild — Bobby
• 2002The Car Kid — Vernon
• 2001Bully — Marty Puccio, Associate Producer
• 2001Ghost World — Josh
• 2001Happy Campers — Wichita
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Duane Winslow
• 2001Tart — William Sellers
• 2001The Theory of the Leisure Class — Billy
• 2000Skipped Parts — Dothan Talbot
• 19992 Little, 2 Late — Jimmy Walsh
• 1998Apt Pupil — Todd Bowden
• 1997Telling Lies in America — Karchy 'Chucky' Jonas
• 1996Sleepers — Young Michael
• 1995The Cure — Erik
• 1995Tom and Huck — Huck Finn
• 1994The Client — Mark Sway

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Child Star Confidential — Self (archive footage)
• 1997Making of Biohazard 2 TV-CM — Self