Brad Renfro has died, at the age of twenty-five. The cause of death has not yet been determined. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1982, Renfro was discovered by director Joel Schumacher and made his debut playing the title role in Schumacher's 1994 The Client, based on a John Grisham best-seller. The movie was a hit, and Renfro's impressive performance quickly led to starring roles in a string of movies, including The Cure; Tom and Huck, in which he played Huckleberry Finn to Jonathan Taylor Thomas's Tom Sawyer; Telling Lies in America; and Bryan Singer's Apt Pupil, in which he co-starred with Ian McKellan. That last one in particular showed his willingness to tap into something dark and ugly lurking behind a mask of adolescent banality, a quality that he fully embraced when he played a teenage murderer in Larry Clark's 2001 Bully, a project on which Renfro served as associate producer. That same year, he also displayed his sweeter side in a supporting role in Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World. But for the last ten years of his life, he was also involved in several brushes with the law, most of them alcohol- or drug-related. In December of 2005, Renfro was arrested in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles for trying to purchase heroin from an undercover cop and ended up serving ten days in jail. Through it all, he managed to keep working, but most of his films since Ghost World received little or no attention. His last completed film was The Informers, an adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel that was directed by Gregor Jordan (Buffalo Soldiers), and which co-stars Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Brandon Routh, Winona Ryder, and Mickey Rourke. Its release date has not yet been announced.