| Edward Furlong  AKA Edward Walter Furlong
Born: 2-Aug-1977
Birthplace: Glendale, CA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Terminator 2 and Pecker It is the classic Hollywood story: Edward Furlong was a 12-year-old boy hanging out at the Pasadena Boys & Girls Club, when he was "discovered" by a casting director, who asked him to audition. The role was the young "John Conner" in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It was Furlong's first professional role, and his first time acting at all.
Furlong has never met his father, and does not know who he was. He briefly had a stepfather, who left when Furlong was very young. An aunt and uncle felt Furlong was too much responsibility for his mother to handle, sued for custody, and fostered Furlong for about three years, including the time when he was making Terminator 2. After the film was released Furlong sued for his own emancipation, and he's been on his own since he was 14. He never completed high school. At 15, Furlong took up with Jacqueline Domac, then 29, his on-set tutor. She later became his manager, and then his fiancé. In May 1999, she sued Furlong, claiming he'd beaten her and withheld earned commissions. As of 2003, Ms. Domac was teaching sex education at Venice High School in Los Angeles.
After T2, Furlong performed in a string of little-seen indie movies, then landed in John Waters' Pecker, American History X, the startling meditation on American bigotry, and Detroit Rock City, an innovative teen comedy. In 2001's Animal Factory, Furlong played the naïve newcomer at the state penitentiary, where only another prisoner's protection (the grizzled Willem Dafoe) keeps Furlong from being raped.
As an actor, Furlong's work has earned reviews ranging from generally positive to out-and-out raves. His personal life, however, seems to be a mess. He has been arrested for drunk driving at least twice, and gone through rehab at least twice. Reports of his personal life often include lines like "woke up in a pool of his own vomit". Furlong denies having a cocaine or heroin problem. Furlong was dropped from 2003's Terminator 3 when it became clear to the movie's producers that they'd have to cross their fingers every morning, hoping he'd be sober or show up at all. He was similarly dumped from Firecracker and Max and Grace.
He also has had some success as a singer, with a hit single and album called Hold on Tight, sold only in Japan.
Father: (unknown to Edward)
Mother: Elenor Torres (youth counselor)
Father: Moises Torres (stepfather, abandoned family, 1989)
Girlfriend: Soleil Moon Frye (actress, dated early 1990s)
Girlfriend: Jacqueline Domac (manager, dated 1993-1998)
Girlfriend: Natasha Lyonne (actress, dated 1998-2000)
Girlfriend: Paris Hilton (accidental pornstar, dated 2000)
Girlfriend: Jolene Blalock (actress, ex-, dated 2001)
Wife: Rachael Bella (m. 19-Apr-2006, one son)
Son: Ethan Page (b. 21-Sep-2006)
High School: (dropout)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Promises
Driving While Intoxicated
Drunk in Public arrested at the Meijer grocery store in Florence, KY 15-Sep-2004
Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Vegetarian
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Living & Dying (13-Feb-2007)
The Visitation (15-Feb-2006)
The Crow 4: Wicked Prayer (13-May-2005)
High Hopes (2-Apr-2005)
Dead and Dying (1-Jan-2005)
3 Blind Mice (21-Jun-2003)
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (30-Nov-2001) Himself
The Knights Who Made the Enterprise (6-Apr-2001)
Animal Factory (24-Jan-2000)
Detroit Rock City (9-Aug-1999)
American History X (30-Oct-1998)
Pecker (11-Sep-1998)
The Grass Harp (11-Oct-1996)
Before and After (23-Feb-1996)
Little Odessa (12-Sep-1994)
Brainscan (22-Apr-1994)
Aerosmith: Big Ones You Can Look at (1994)
A Home of Our Own (05-Nov-1993)
American Heart (17-Sep-1992)
Pet Sematary II (28-Aug-1992)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1-Jul-1991)
Official Website:
http://www.edward-furlong.com/
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