---
name: "Brad Renfro"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brad-renfro"
fi1m_id: "brad-renfro"
imdb_id: "nm0000605"
tmdb_id: 51214
wikidata_id: "Q152767"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 July 1982"
died: "15 January 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T19:49:00.185390+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Brad Renfro

## Identity

Brad Renfro

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brad-renfro
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brad-renfro
- **IMDb ID:** nm0000605
- **TMDB ID:** 51214
- **Wikidata ID:** Q152767
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Renfro, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152767, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000605/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51214

Actor. Born 25 July 1982 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Died 15 January 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 July 1982, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- **Died:** 15 January 2008
- **Active:** 1994–2001
- **Also known as:** Brad Barron Renfro  
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 64 (2), 2000s 84 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 66 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, Thriller 2, Comedy 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $292m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Renfro, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152767, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000605/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51214

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Ghost World*](https://film.one/film/ghost-world.md) (84)
- **Tubi:** [*Sleepers*](https://film.one/film/sleepers.md) (57)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Brad Renfro was an American actor. He was born on 25 July 1982 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and died on 15 January 2008 in Los Angeles.

Renfro made his film debut at the age of eleven in *The Client* (1994). He went on to appear in *The Cure* (1995), *Tom and Huck* (1995), *Sleepers* (1996), *Apt Pupil* (1998), *Bully* (2001) and *Ghost World* (2001), in which he played Josh.

His other credits include *The Jacket* (2005) and *The Informers* (2008). He also appeared in an episode of *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2006).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Ghost World* (2001), Fi1m 84, as Josh — [page](https://film.one/film/ghost-world.md)
- *Sleepers* (1996), Fi1m 57, as Young Michael — [page](https://film.one/film/sleepers.md)
- *The Client* (1994), Fi1m 72, as Mark Sway — [page](https://film.one/film/the-client.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Informers* (2008), as Jack · In Memory Of
- *Collector* (2008), Actor
- *10th & Wolf* (2006), as Vincent
- *Hollywood Flies* (2005), as Jamie
- *The Jacket* (2005), as The Stranger
- *The Mummy an' the Armadillo* (2004), as Wyatte
- *The Job* (2003), as Troy Riverside
- *The Car Kid* (2002), as Vernon
- *Deuces Wild* (2002), as Bobby
- *American Girl* (2002), as Jay Grubb
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Duane Winslow
- *Ghost World* (2001), as Josh — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/ghost-world.md)
- *The Theory of the Leisure Class* (2001), as Billy
- *Bully* (2001), as Marty Puccio · Associate Producer
- *Tart* (2001), as William Sellers
- *Happy Campers* (2001), as Wichita
- *Skipped Parts* (2000), as Dothan Talbot
- *2 Little, 2 Late* (1999), as Jimmy Walsh
- *Apt Pupil* (1998), as Todd Bowden
- *Telling Lies in America* (1997), as Karchy 'Chucky' Jonas
- *Sleepers* (1996), as Young Michael — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/sleepers.md)
- *Tom and Huck* (1995), as Huck Finn
- *The Cure* (1995), as Erik
- *The Client* (1994), as Mark Sway — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-client.md)

## Gallery

- ![Brad Renfro](https://film.one/media/person/97223/gallery-b890b91e5940.jpg) Brad Renfro — Broward County Sheriff's Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Brad_Renfro_mug_shot.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Brad Renfro](https://film.one/media/person/97223/gallery-f7520d1f9e5a.jpg) Brad Renfro — Image via TMDB
- ![Brad Renfro](https://film.one/media/person/97223/gallery-79c8c334d20e.jpg) Brad Renfro — Image via TMDB
- ![Brad Renfro](https://film.one/media/person/97223/gallery-583db59cfd86.jpg) Brad Renfro — Image via TMDB
- ![Brad Renfro](https://film.one/media/person/97223/gallery-6796039befe6.jpg) Brad Renfro — Image via TMDB
- ![Brad Renfro](https://film.one/media/person/97223/gallery-336f367582f1.jpg) Brad Renfro — Image via TMDB
- ![Brad Renfro](https://film.one/media/person/97223/gallery-6e1431bfce0a.jpg) Brad Renfro — Image via TMDB

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