Brad Renfro

Brad Renfro is one of those actors who makes you genuinely sad when you think about what was lost. He was cast in The Client at eleven years old with zero acting experience — just a kid from a Knoxville trailer park — and somehow held his own opposite Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon. That raw, unpolished quality never really left him, and it became his signature: he could play vulnerability and menace in the same breath in films like Apt Pupil and Ghost World. He clearly had more ambitions too, dabbling in music and screenwriting like he was always reaching for more ways to say something. He died in January 2008 at just twenty-five, and that quiet fact still stings. Some careers get to be legends through longevity; his became one through sheer, undeniable talent packed into too short a window.

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Name (English)

Brad Renfro

Name (Japanese)

ブラッド・レンフロ

Reading

ぶらっど・れんふろ

Born

July 25, 1982 – January 15, 2008

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dog

Origin

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Occupation

actor / musician / screenwriter / television actor

High school

Central High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Renfro
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%95%E3%83%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152767

Tags

• Tennessee
• actor
• musician
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-02

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