Brendan Sexton III

Brendan Eugene Sexton III is an American actor.

Early life
Sexton was born in Staten Island, New York. He was a student at Hunter College. His father was the garbage commissioner of New York City in the late 1980s.

Career
He 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 most recently starred in The Marconi Bros. alongside Tony Award winner Dan Fogler and in Jonathan Blitstein's Let Them Chirp Awhile alongside Justin Rice.

He also owns and operates a New York City-based independent record label called Big Bit Of Beauty.