Brandon Sklenar

Sklenar was born and raised in Northern New Jersey to Bruce Feakins and Francine Sklenar. His mother is of Czechoslovakian descent.
Sklenar made his professional film debut in the 2011 film Cornered. The following year, he appeared in the television series Dating Rules from My Future Self. He then appeared in the film Chance in 2014, the NBC comedy series Truth Be Told in 2015, the films Hunky Dory and Bella Donna, and the television series Fall into Me in 2016, a lead role in the American-Japanese horror film Temple and the Fox sitcom series New Girl in 2017.
He was then cast as Edward Mapplethorpe in the 2018 biographical drama film Mapplethorpe, which follows the life of New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. It screened at Tribeca Film Festival in 2018 where it was named a Runner-up in the U.S. Narrative Competition section. Sklenar received positive critical acclaim from multipl…