Edward Walter Furlong was born on August 2,1977 and is an American actor.
21 Facts About Edward Furlong
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Edward Furlong won a Young Artist Award for his performance alongside Kathy Bates in A Home of Our Own and appeared in Before and After with Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson.
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Edward Furlong had significant roles in the comedy Detroit Rock City and the crime drama Animal Factory.
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Edward Furlong was born August 2,1977 in Glendale, California, the son of Eleanor Torres, a youth-center worker, and Heinrich Bruno Wittig.
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In 1991, Edward Furlong began his film career as John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a role that earned him an MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Role and a Saturn Award for best young actor.
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Edward Furlong was discovered for the part by casting director Mali Finn while visiting the Pasadena Boys and Girls Club in September 1990.
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Edward Furlong followed this role with a string of moderately successful high-profile films and independent films, sharing the screen with Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson in Before and After ; Tim Roth, Maximilian Schell and Vanessa Redgrave in Little Odessa ; Jeff Bridges in American Heart ; and Anthony Edwards and Clancy Brown in Pet Sematary Two.
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Edward Furlong played the lead role of Michael Brower, a horror and videogame-obsessed teen in the sci-fi horror film Brainscan.
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Edward Furlong played a young convict in Steve Buscemi's film Animal Factory.
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Edward Furlong was expected to play John Connor again in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ; however, Nick Stahl was cast just before filming began.
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Edward Furlong later elaborated to have had a deal to reprise his role and was removed after the producers discovered his drug addiction.
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Edward Furlong played the lead in The Crow series' fourth film The Crow: Wicked Prayer, alongside David Boreanaz and Tara Reid, which was planned for a theatrical release but upon release was widely panned by critics and audiences and was released to DVD after one week in limited theaters.
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Edward Furlong appeared in Night of the Demons, the 2009 remake of the 1988 horror classic, which was shot in New Orleans and released straight to DVD.
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Edward Furlong appeared in two scenes of Seth Rogen's film The Green Hornet.
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Edward Furlong was featured as Fixer in the crowdfunded pilot Star Trek: Renegades.
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In 2019, James Cameron confirmed that Edward Furlong would be returning to reprise his role of John Connor.
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In October 1992, Edward Furlong released an album in Japan called Hold on Tight, with a cover of "People Are Strange" by the Doors.
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In 2023 Edward Furlong was slated to star in the movie Forest Hills alongside Shelley Duval and Dee Wallace as well as Charlie's House, his first post- pandemic starring role.
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In 2012, Bella alleged in court documents that their six-year-old son tested positive for cocaine, which led a judge to rule Edward Furlong's visits had to be supervised.
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Edward Furlong has battled alcoholism and drug addiction throughout his career.
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Edward Furlong was arrested again in May 2013 for assaulting his girlfriend and avoided a further prison sentence after agreeing to five years' probation, going to rehab for drug addiction for 90 days, and to undergo one year of domestic violence counselling.