Brandon Flynn
Brandon Paul Flynn is an American actor known for his role as Justin Foley in the Netflix teen drama series 13 Reasons Why. His work in film and television includes the series Manhunt, Ratched, and True Detective, and the films The Parenting and Hellraiser.
Early life and education
Flynn was born and raised in Miami, Florida, where he attended high school at New World School of the Arts. He graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, and studied at the Globe Theatre's Shakespeare Conservatory in London. Flynn's first role was at the age of ten, playing Mr. Smee in a musical version of Peter Pan.Career
Film and television
In 2016, Flynn was cast as Mike the Intern in BrainDead. In 2018, Flynn was cast in the third season of True Detective as Ryan Peters in a recurring capacity.From 2017 to 2020, Flynn portrayed Justin Foley in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. Foley, one of the lead characters through all four seasons, is a troubled yet ultimately redemptive character who starts as a popular high school jock with a traumatic home life and spirals into homelessness, addiction, and sex work.
In 2020, Flynn made his feature film acting debut in the dark indie comedy Looks That Kill, starring as a high school student whose physical appearance causes the death of anyone who looks at him. In the same year, he had a recurring role as Henry Osgood in the 2020 television series Ratched, a quadruple amputee and sadist who lives locked in his home with his mother, Lenore Osgood. He has starred in a number of other television series and films, including Manhunt, a historical drama about the hunt for Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, and the horror-comedy The Parenting.