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| Birth Name(s) : Edward Walter Furlong |
Date of Birth: August 2, 1977 |
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Born in Pasadena, California, Furlong had no acting ambitions until he was approached by casting agent Mali Finn, who was looking for a young actor to play the role of John Conner in the box office hit Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Finn instantly recognized his ability, and suggested him for the part, feeling that he could hold his own playing opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.
For his career starting role, Furlong earned an MTV movie award for best breakthrough role, and a saturn Sci-Fi award for best young actor. From there, Furlong took an unconventional route through Hollywood, which led to his working with some of the top people in the business, both studio and independent films. His work has included starring opposite Jeff Bridges in American Heart (1992) for which he was nominated for an IFP Spirit award for best supporting actor. He has also starred in Home of Our Own, A (1993) with Kathy Bates, Little Odessa (1994) with Tim Roth, Grass Harp, The (1995) with Walter Matthau and Barbet Schroder's Before and After (1996).
He also starred opposite Edward Norton in Tony Kaye's controversial and gripping drama American History X (1998) and in the hit comedy Pecker (1998). More recently, Furlong has been opposite Willem Dafoe in the prison drama Animal Factory (2000) ,directed by Steve Buscemi. He recently starred in Pupi Avati's 11th century tale, Cavalieri che fecero l'impresa, I (2001) ("The Knights of the Quest"). |
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Edward Walter Furlong (born August 2, 1977) is a Saturn Award-winning American actor, best known to film audiences as John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Daniel Vinyard in American History X.
Furlong was born in Glendale, California, near Burbank, to Eleanor (née Tafoya), a youth-center worker, and an unknown father. Furlong has a younger half-brother, Bobby Torres, from his mother's marriage to Moises Torres. Furlong moved in with his aunt and uncle, Nancy Tafoya and Sean Furlong, in the summer of 1990; the two gained legal guardianship of Furlong in September of 1991 and subsequently lost it in August 1993, to his mother. Furlong attended Elliot Junior High School in Glendale, and South Pasadena Junior High School in California.
Furlong started 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. He was discovered for the part by casting director Mali Finn, while visiting the Pasadena Boys and Girls Club. He followed this role with a string of moderately successful films and indies, sharing screen with actors like Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson in Before and After, Tim Roth in Little Odessa, and others. At the height of his career, he released a CD in Japan called "Hold on Tight" which included a cover track of The Doors hit People Are Strange. The title track of the CD met with modest success there. In 1998, he starred in American History X alongside Edward Norton.The cover of Furlong's music CD which was only released in Japan
Furlong played the lead in the fourth film in The Crow series, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, alongside David Boreanaz, Tara Reid, Dennis Hopper and Macy Gray. In 2006, Furlong appeared as a guest star on two episodes of the television program CSI: NY. He was recently rumored to be under consideration for a role in the upcoming live action Star Wars TV series.
Ed Furlong dated Paris Hilton in the early 2000's. Furlong is married to Rachael Bella who gave birth to their baby son, Ethan Page Furlong, on September 21, 2006. He is also a well-known supporter of animal rights and has campaigned for PETA. In 2004, he was arrested for trying to remove lobsters from a grocery store in Kentucky where he was filming the independent film Jimmy and Judy. |
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| I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me. It's a challenge to get inside these people's heads and wonder why they would have these beliefs. |
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