Meet Brady Hepner, who’s starring in Netflix’s The Waterfront: the 19-year-old actor has already appeared in shows like Chicago Fire and acted alongside Ethan Hawke, and he’s even a certified trainer
The young star is also in Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story, which was just released last week, and he plays the guitar – but we may not be getting any music from him just yet
Rising star Brady Hepner once admitted in an interview with Thomasville Times in 2021 that he shied away from telling people he was an actor, saying, “They always want to know what you’ve been in, and if you haven’t been in anything, they don’t take you seriously.”
Hepner also landed a leading role as Max Van Helsing in Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story, a 2025 vampire horror film about Abraham Van Helsing and his two sons that was just released last week.
Here’s everything you need to know about up-and-coming actor Brady Hepner.
He was interested in acting from a young age
Brady Hepner was born in 2005 to David and Jennifer Hepner in North Carolina. According to his interview with Thomasville Times, his interest in acting developed when he was around 11 years old.
“I went through a phase where I watched a bunch of TV and movies, and I was looking past the show at the actors,” he said at the time. “You have these ordinary people that can tell a story and portray any type of character they want, and I just thought that was really interesting.”
Soon enough, young Hepner was taking acting classes. He landed his first on-screen role through his coach, who recommended him for a role in the 2020 horror film, Killer Babes and the Frightening Film Fiasco.