Renfro, Brad 1982-2008

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Renfro, Brad 1982-2008

PERSONAL

Full name, Bradley Barron Renfro; born July 25, 1982, in Knoxville, TN; died of an accidental heroin overdose, January 15, 2008, in Los Angeles, CA. Actor. Renfro was only ten when he was picked to play the part of a gutsy witness against the Mafia alongside Susan Sarandon in the 1994 legal thriller The Client. Even with his lack of acting experience, Renfro won a Young Artist Award for his performance. Subsequent acting offers quickly came his way, and in 1995 Renfro won acclaim for his touching performances as best friend to a boy with AIDS in The Cure and for his comedic turn as Huck Finn in Tom and Huck. Renfro also won a Young-Star Award in 1996 for his role as the younger Michael Sullivan, Brad Pitt's revenge-seeking character in the crime drama Sleepers. In 1998 Renfro starred in Apt Pupil, a disturbing film adaptation of a Stephen King novel about a boy tutored in evil by an elderly Nazi war criminal. At the time of his death, Renfro had completed filming on The Informers with Winona Ryder and Billy Bob Thornton.

PERIODICALS

People Weekly, January 28, 2008.

New York Times, January 16, 2008.

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