Brandon Flynn

Film and television

In 2016, Flynn was cast as Mike the Intern in BrainDead. In 2018, Flynn was cast in the third season of True Detective as Ryan Peters in a recurring capacity.^[6]

From 2017 to 2020, Flynn portrayed Justin Foley in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.^[7] Foley, one of the lead characters through all four seasons, is a troubled yet ultimately redemptive character who starts as a popular high school jock with a traumatic home life and spirals into homelessness, addiction, and sex work.^[8]

In 2020, Flynn made his feature film acting debut in the dark indie comedy Looks That Kill, starring as a high school student whose physical appearance causes the death of anyone who looks at him.^[9] In the same year, he had a recurring role as Henry Osgood in the 2020 television series Ratched, a quadruple amputee and sadist who lives locked in his home with his mother, Lenore Osgood.^[10] He has starred in a number of other television series and films, including Manhunt (2024), a historical drama about the hunt for Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, and the horror-comedy The Parenting (2025). In August 2025, he joined the cast of Bradley Bredeweg's psychological thriller Deluxe Ocean View.^[11]

In February 2026, it was announced that Flynn would appear in The Last Temptation of Becky, the third instalment of the horror-thriller Becky (2020).^[12] He will also voice Boris in Alice Maio Mackey’s Our Effed Up World that is scheduled to premiere on June 19, 2026, at the 50th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival.^[13][14]

He has a recurring role in Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, an Apple TV series that premiered on May 20, 2026.^[15]

Theater

Flynn's New York theater debut was in the role of Luke in the off-Broadway production of John Kander and Greg Pierce's musical Kid Victory at the Vineyard Theatre in 2017.^[16] In 2025, he returned to the stage to play a young Marlon Brando in the off-Broadway premiere of Gregg Ostrin's play Kowalski at the Duke on 42nd Street.^[17] Also in 2025, he originated the role of Dylan in the world premiere of Jeremy O. Harris's play Spirit of the People at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.^[18] In October 2025, Flynn joined the cast of Good Sex, an experimental off-Broadway play. Created by Irish theater company Dead Centre in collaboration with collaboration with novelist and essayist Emilie Pine, the play first premiered at the 2022 Dublin Theatre Festival and was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.^[19]

In 2026, Flynn starred as Jonah in Matthew Libby's off-Broadway play Data at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.^[20][21]

Other ventures

Flynn has starred in multiple Calvin Klein campaigns, including the brand's 2023 Pride campaign, the 2023 holiday campaign, and the Spring 2024 menswear campaign.^[22] In 2025, Flynn announced that he was working on a screen adaptation of Rent Boy, Gary Indiana's epistolary novel about a male sex worker navigating the seedy underbelly of 1990s New York City.^[23]

Political and religious views

Flynn is Jewish.^[25][26][27] In 2020, he joined the weekly protests at the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles demanding the resignation of then–district attorney Jackie Lacey for not holding the police force accountable for the murders of Black people in the LA county. He also became a supporter of the LA Youth Division of Black Lives Matter.^[28][29] He has been outspoken against homophobia and condemned the Trump administration's decision to prohibit transgender people from enlisting in the military.^[30] He voiced his support for marriage equality, urging his followers to vote in the favor of same-sex marriage in Australia.^[31]

Films

Television

Theater

Voice work

Music videos