Even though everyday is another day since you haven't seen the love you lost, just remember it's one more day towards seeing them again.When I die if you need to weep
Cry for your brother or sister
Walking the street beside you
And when you need me put your arms around anyone
And give them what you need to give me.I want to leave you something
Something better than words or sounds.Look for me in the people I've known or loved
And if you cannot give me away
At least let me live in your eyes and not on your mind.You can love me most by letting hands touch hands
By letting bodies touch bodies
And by letting go of children that need to be free.Love doesn't die, people do
So when all that's left of me is love
Give me away.~Merritt Malloy
Brad Barron Renfro (July 25, 1982 – January 15, 2008) was an American actor. He made his movie debut in 1994 in the title role of The Client. He acted in 21 movies, several short films, and one television episode during his career. Much of his later career was marred by a pattern of substance abuse. He died January 15, 2008 from an overdose of heroin.Brad Renfro was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Angela and Mark Renfro, who was a factory worker. He was raised from the age of five by his paternal grandmother, Joanne Barron Renfro, a church secretary.
Renfro was discovered by Mali Finn, a casting director for Joel Schumacher, when he was 10. His only previous acting experience was as a dealer in an anti-drugs workshop school production. Cast by Finn for Schumacher's The Client, Renfro acted alongside Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. Based on the bestselling John Grisham novel, it became one of the top-grossing films of 1994. In 1995, he won Hollywood Reporter's "Young Star" award, and was nominated as one of People's "Top 30 Under 30". That year, he played Huckleberry "Huck" Finn in 1995's Tom and Huck with Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
In 1996, he was cast in Sleepers, based on the novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra. The film was directed by Barry Levinson and also starred Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Dustin Hoffman and Brad Pitt.
In 1998, he starred opposite Ian McKellan in Apt Pupil, directed by Bryan Singer. That same year, he played Leon S. Kennedy in a live-action preview of Resident Evil 2. Renfro went on to act in other films, including 2001's Ghost World and Bully, 2002's Confessions of an American Girl (in which he played a gay teenager), and 2005's The Jacket. He also appeared in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and completed filming on the unreleased film The Informers, co-starring Winona Ryder and Billy Bob Thornton.
Renfro was the cousin of Jesse Hasek, lead singer of the band 10 Years,[citation needed] and was featured in the first version of their video for the song "Wasteland". He fathered a son named Yamato Renfro, born in 2003. The boy lives in Japan with his motherRenfro was found dead on January 15, 2008 in his Los Angeles apartment. On February 8, 2008, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office ruled that Renfro's death was accidental, attributing it to acute heroin/morphine intoxication.
His body was returned to East Tennessee, where he was buried on January 22, 2008 north of Knoxville, at Red House Cemetery in the small community of Blaine.
Less than two weeks later, his grandmother Joanne – who had raised him and accompanied him regularly during his early acting career – died at her home at the age of 76. Local officials stated that she died of natural causes.This is a fansite for Brad Renfro. Everyone who followed his career should know pretty much his life story. He was one of the most phenomenal actors there ever was. Now his time has come to serve the Lord in Heaven, and we will see him again. Anyone dares to say anything doragatory (sp?) about him or his family will be banned and your comments will be removed. R.I.P 1982-2008.{}
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