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Brandon Flynn

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american actor”. Today it says “american actor known for his role as justin foley in the netflix teen drama series 13 reasons why”.
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Brandon Paul Flynn (born October 11, 1993) is an American actor, known for his role as Justin Foley in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why (2017–2020), as well as appearing as himself in the short film Home Movies , and Mike the Intern in BrainDead (2016).1 He also appeared in the series Ratched (2020) and the horror movie Hellraiser (2022).2 He went to high school at New World School of the Arts.

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american actor

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american actor known for his role as justin foley in the netflix teen drama series 13 reasons why

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