Edward Walter Furlong
(born August 2, 1977) is an American actor whose best known film roles include
John Connor in
Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Daniel Vinyard in
American History X. He is a two-time
Saturn Award nominee, winning the 1992
Best Performance by a Younger Actor award for his performance in
Terminator 2. He also won the 1992
MTV Movie Award for
Best Breakthrough Performance for his work in the film.
Biography
Beginnings
Furlong was born in
Glendale, California, near
Burbank, the son of Danielle (
née Tafoya), a youth-center worker, and an unknown father. He is of
Mexican descent on his mother's side,
[Totty with talent | Sunday Herald, The | Find Articles at BNET.com] and also has
Russian and possibly
Native American ancestry.
[www.bloody-disgusting.com/feature/109] Furlong has a younger half-brother, Bobby Torres, from his mother's marriage to Moises Torres. Furlong moved in with his aunt and uncle, Nancy Tafoya and Sean Furlong, in 1990; the two gained legal guardianship of Furlong in September 1991 and subsequently lost it to his mother in August 1993.
[905R-000-002 - Entertainment Weekly - A PATH TO DISASTER - 1994] Furlong attended
Charles W. Eliot Middle School in Altadena, and South Pasadena Junior High School in South Pasadena, California.
