Brad William Henke, an NFL player who later earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for playing a gay corrections officer in the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black,” has died. He was 56.
Brad William Henke arrives for the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on Jan. 21, 2018, in Los Angeles.
Henke, who appeared in more than 40 films, was born in Columbus, Nebraska, and raised in Littleton, Colorado. He played college football on a scholarship at the University of Arizona and was a standout defensive lineman, team captain and All-Academic student journalist, his agent said. He went pro in 1989 when the New York Giants drafted him.
In 2000, he opened an acting studio in Los Angeles where he is credited with guiding the careers of hundreds of actors.
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