Born: February 21, 1980
Age: 44
Birthplace: Staten Island, New York, U.S.
Brendan Eugene Sexton III (born February 21, 1980) is an American actor.
Born in Staten Island, New York, Sexton made his film debut in Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse playing the troubled bully Brandon McCarthy, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. He was the lead in Hurricane Streets and Desert Blue and also appeared in Boys Don't Cry, Black Hawk Down, and Just Like the Son, as well as the cult films Empire Records and Pecker.
He also starred in The Marconi Bros., alongside Dan Fogler and in Jonathan Blitstein's Let Them Chirp Awhile alongside Justin Rice.
Sexton owns and operates a New York City-based independent record label "Big Bit Of Beauty".
In a radio interview, in 2002, Sexton said that the version of the film Black Hawk Down, in which he briefly appeared, which made it onto theater screens was significantly different from the one recounted in the original script. According to him, many scenes asking hard questions of the U.S. troops with regard to the violent realities of war, the true purpose of their mission in Somalia, etc., were cut out. Sexton wrote an article in 2002 where he called the US Army's "School of the Americas, the U.S. Army’s own terrorist training camp for Latin America" and said that Black Hawk Down failed to explain the reasons behind the Somali population's opposition to the U.S. military presence in their country:
The Somalis are portrayed as if they don't know what's going on, as if they're trying to kill the Americans because they — like all other "evildoers" — will do anything to bite the hand that feeds them. But the Somalis aren't a stupid people. In fact, many were upset because the U.S. military presence propped up people tied to the old, corrupt Barre regime.
Year | Title | Role |
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1995 | Welcome to the Dollhouse | Brandon McCarthy |
Empire Records | Warren Beatty | |
1996 | Boom | |
1997 | The Devil & the Angel | Street Thug #1 |
Arresting Gena | Soldier | |
Hurricane Streets | Marcus | |
A, B, C... Manhattan | Bob | |
1998 | Myth America | |
Spark | Mooney | |
Pecker | Matt | |
Desert Blue | Blue Baxter | |
1999 | Boys Don't Cry | Tom Nissen |
2000 | Muse 6 | Dez |
Herschel Hopper: New York Rabbit | Herschel | |
2001 | Session 9 | Jeff |
Black Hawk Down | Kowalewski | |
2003 | The Finkel Files | Eli |
It Was Always Me | Dylan | |
2004 | Winter Solstice | Robbie |
2005 | This Revolution | Daniel Symptom |
Love, Ludlow | Ludlow | |
Hide and Seek | Store Clerk | |
2006 | Just Like the Son | Grant Bills |
Little Fugitive | ||
2007 | Footsteps | Douglas Denenburg |
Si j'étais toi | Ethan | |
Neal Cassady | Little Big | |
The Girl In The Park | Stuart | |
2008 | Let Them Chirp Awhile | Scott |
The Marconi Bros. | Anthony | |
Bohica | Fish | |
Family Man | ||
2009 | Winter of Frozen Dreams | Jerry Davies |
Pornstar | William | |
Everybody's Fine | Mugger | |
2010 | The Runaways | Dereck |
The Truth | Gabriel Doyle | |
2011-2012 | The Killing | Belko Royce |
2013 | The Odd Way Home | Dave |
2014 | Glass Chin | Jimmy Musial |