Jonathan Brandis (photo below) is a well-known director, actor and screenwriter from America. Popularity was brought to him by such paintings as “Endless Story 2”, “It”, “Side Impacts” and “Underwater Odyssey”. The article will describe his brief biography.
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Jonathan Brandis was born in the city of Danbury in 1976. The boy's father, Gregory, worked as a firefighter and grocer. And mother - Mary - was a teacher and a personal manager.
Jonathan's acting career began when the boy was barely six years old. He starred in commercial radio and a number of television commercials. Then followed the first role in the series "One Life". Brandis played the young Buchanan there.
When Jonathan was nine, his parents decided to move to Los Angeles to develop his son's further career. For a short period, the boy appeared in episodic roles in a number of television productions of "Kate and Ellie", "Full House", "Who is the Boss?", And also in the series "Law of Los Angeles".
Popularity
In 1990, Jonathan Brandis got the main role in the film "Endless Story 2". The young man played Bastian Bucks, who went to the magical world of Fantasy to help the inhabitants of the fairy kingdom. In the same year, Brandis got the role of Denbrough in the film "It" - an adaptation of the fantastic horror book of Stephen King. In 1992, Jonathan was lucky to star with the legendary Chuck Norris in the film “Side Impacts”. A little later, the hero of this article appeared in the film "Ladybugs." Comedian Rodney Dangerfield became the partner of the young man.
The fiction series Underwater Odyssey, which he brilliantly embodied on the screen of Lucas Volanchek, brought wide popularity to Brandis. After that, Jonathan became the idol of teenagers all over the planet.
And the young man auditioned for the role of Anakin Skywalker for the second episode of the Star Wars saga. But in the end, Hayden Christensen got around him.
Other activities
In addition to filming a movie, Jonathan Brandis tried himself in the directorial field and wrote scripts for films. He liked it more than anything else, especially in the last few years of his life. Shortly before his death, the young man staged the short film The Slainesville Boys.
Personal life
While still at school, Jonathan Brandis, whose filmography is not very extensive, met with Brittany Murphy. Together they starred in The Underwater Odyssey. From 1995 to 1998, Jonathan met with singer and actress Tatyana Ali. In 2000, a young man began a relationship with Monica Kina, a partner in the film “Bad Girls from the High Valley”.
Death
November 12, 2003 is the date when Jonathan Brandis passed away at Cedar Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles). The cause of death is suicide. Despite the lack of a note, his close friends said that recently the actor was in a deep depression and regularly drank. And this does not exclude the possibility of his desire to leave this world. On November 11, Jonathan hanged himself in the hallway of his apartment. The young man was found unconscious 15 minutes after committing suicide. Still alive, Brandis was sent to the hospital. But the doctors could not save his life. Toxicological tests showed that on the day of suicide, the actor did not take alcohol and drugs.
Interesting Facts
- Jonathan never saw the debut of his short film, The Slainesville Boys. He committed suicide six months before its premiere.
- Brandis’s companion at the school ball was Brittany Murphy, known to the audience in the paintings “8 Mile” and “Sin City”.
- The main inspiration for Jonathan was his father, who taught him to work from an early age.
- After the death of the actor , many dedicated websites and online communities appeared on the Web.
- Jonathan Brandis was cremated, and the ashes of the young man were given to the family.