Just before midnight on November 11, 2003, friends entered Jonathan Brandis’s Los Angeles apartment and made a horrific discovery. | Factinate

At seventeen he needed bodyguards to reach a set. At twenty seven he died believing nobody cared if he lived. Jonathan Brandis was shaped early by cameras, working ads as a child, moving to Los Angeles, stacking TV roles, then breaking out in 1993 on seaQuest DSV. The mail came by the thousands each week. Crowds screamed. In 1996 the show ended. The calls slowed. Adult roles did not arrive. In 2002 he pinned hope on Hart’s War, only to watch his scenes cut away. Work vanished. Friends heard desp