Brad Renfro

Brad Renfro was born as Brad Barron Renfro on July 25, 1982 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, to Angela Denise Olsen and Mark Renfro. He had a half-sister, named Haley Rose Olsen. His parents separated when he was a toddler and from the age of five, he was raised by his paternal grandmother. Renfro died on January 15, 2008 due to heroin overdose in Los Angeles, at the young age of 25.

Brad Renfro’s first big screen role was in the 1994 movie ‘The Client’. He then appeared in the films ‘The Cure’ and ‘Tom and Huck’. After this, he was cast in the movies ‘Sleepers’, ‘Telling Lies in America’ and ‘Apt Pupil’. From 2000 to 2005, Renfro did several big screen projects including ‘Skipped Parts’, ‘The Theory of the Leisure Class’, ‘Happy Campers’, ‘Tart’, ‘Bully’, ‘Ghost World’, ‘American Girl’, ‘The Job’, ‘The Jacket’ and ‘Mummy an' the Armadillo’.

In 2006, the actor appeared in an episode of ‘Law & Order: Criminal Intent’. The same year, he acted in the flick ‘10th and Wolf’. Two years later, Renfro played the role of Jack in the movie ‘The Informers’. That year, he also played his last role in the short film ‘Collector’.

In July 1998, a teenage Renfro was arrested along with his cousin for drug possession. On August 28, 2000, he tried to steal a 45-foot yacht from the Fort Lauderdale harbour. Due to this, the actor and his friend Harold Bond, who was also involved in the crime, were charged with grand theft and criminal mischief. The following year, Renfro was arrested for underage drinking.

Then on January 14, 2002, he was arrested again on charges of public intoxication as well as driving without a valid license. Three years later, the American actor was charged with an attempted possession of heroin. Renfro spent ten days in a jail for convictions of attempted heroin possession and driving while under the influence in May 2006.