Brendan Sexton III


Brendan Eugene Sexton III is an American actor.

Life and career

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:
Sexton has said in interviews that speaking out against the film led to him getting "blacklisted" and prevented him from getting work in major films.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1995Welcome to the DollhouseBrandon McCarthy
1995Empire RecordsWarren Beatty
1996Boom
1997The Devil & the AngelStreet Thug #1
1997Arresting GenaSoldier
1997Hurricane StreetsMarcus Frederick
1997A, B, C... ManhattanBob
1998Myth America
1998SparkMooney
1998PeckerMatt
1998Desert BlueBlue Baxter
1999Boys Don't CryTom Nissen
2000Muse 6Dez
2000'Herschel
2001Session 9Jeff
2001Black Hawk DownKowalewski
2003The Finkel FilesEli
2003It Was Always MeDylan
2003FootstepsDouglas DenenburgTelevision film
2004Winter SolsticeRobbie
2005This RevolutionDaniel Symptom
2005Love, LudlowLudlow
2005Hide and SeekStore Clerk
2006Just Like the SonGrant Bills
2006Little FugitiveFrank
2007Si j'étais toiEthan
2007Neal CassadyLittle Big
2007The Girl In The ParkStuart
2008Let Them Chirp AwhileScott
2008The Marconi Bros.Anthony
2008BohicaFish
2008Family Man
2009Winter of Frozen DreamsJerry Davies
2009PornstarWilliam
2009Everybody's FineMugger
2010The RunawaysDereck
2010The TruthGabriel Doyle
2013The Odd Way HomeDave
20137EClyde
2014Glass ChinJimmy Musial
201410 Cent PistolDonny
2014Beautiful GirlWilliam
2015Welcome to HappinessNyles
2015'Jay
2015DarkJohn
2015Juke Box HeroAllan
2016A Trip at a WeddingGreg
2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriCrop haired guy
2017New MoneySteve Purdy
2019Kyle

Television