1. Edward Walter Furlong was born on August 2,1977 and is an American actor.
25 Facts About Edward Furlong
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Edward Furlong won a Young Artist Award for his performance in A Home of Our Own and appeared in Before and After.
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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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Furlong never met his biological father, who died in June 1980 when Edward was two years old.
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Edward Furlong had a step-father during the early part of his childhood, Eleanor's then-husband Moises Torres, but the couple's marriage ended before Edward appeared in Terminator 2.
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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 the role was recast and given to Nick Stahl shortly before filming began.
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When speaking about the history of his substance abuse and its effects on his career Edward Furlong has said that he had been hired to reprise his role in Terminator 3, in what would have been a very lucrative deal for him, but was removed by the producers after an overdose incident which violated the terms of his contract.
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Edward Furlong played the eponymous lead in the superhero film franchise The Crow's fourth film, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, co-starring with David Boreanaz and Tara Reid.
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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 2024 Edward Furlong starred in the Lovecraftian horror film Unspeakable: Beyond the Wall of Sleep, shot and released that year.
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In October 1992, Edward Furlong released a pop-music album in Japan, titled Hold on tight, which included a cover of "People Are Strange" by the Doors.
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When Edward Furlong was 16 he was openly in a relationship with his sometime stand-in and tutor, 29-year-old Jacqueline Domac, whom he had met on Terminator 2 when he was 13.
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Edward Furlong married the actress Rachael Bella on April 19,2006.
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Later in 2009, she sought to dissolve the restraining order she had previously filed, so that Edward Furlong could visit their child.
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Edward Furlong has battled alcoholism in particular and drug addiction in general throughout his career.
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In October 2012, Edward Furlong was arrested and charged with felony domestic violence against his girlfriend Monica Keena.
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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, 90 days rehab for drug addiction, and one year of domestic violence counseling.