Brad Renfro was 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 was cast in the
motion picture Der Klient (1994),
which starred Susan Sarandon and
Tommy Lee Jones. Although this would be
his zenith, he went on to appear in other films, including
Mississippi - Fluss der Hoffnung (1995),
Tom und Huck (1995),
Sleepers (1996), and
Der Musterschüler (1998). 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 hampered his
career. He died of a drug overdose in January 2008, aged 25.
