Brady Permenter

Acting · Born July 18, 2002 · Urbana, Illinois, United States

Brady Permenter (born March 26, 2003, Canton, Mississippi) is an American actor who was discovered at age nine while attending the gifted program at Germantown Middle School, where he was cast as Vardaman Bundren in James Franco's As I Lay Dying (2013), an adaptation of William Faulkner's novel that became an Official Selection of Cannes and was nominated for the Un Certain Regard Award. Franco cast him again in his follow-up Faulkner adaptation, The Sound and the Fury (2014), in which he played Young Quentin Compson. He then starred as a young Elvis Presley in the Scottish short The Gift (2015), produced in Tupelo, Mississippi, for which he won the Young Talent – Best Actor Award at the Global Shorts Film Awards and an Acting Honorable Mention at the Tupelo Film Festival. He went on to play Ben Pullman across nine episodes of WGN America's Underground (2016), a period drama about the Underground Railroad that he described as one of his most rewarding projects due to his love of history. His film credits include As I Lay Dying (2013) (James Franco, Jessica Chastain), The Sound and the Fury (2014) (Tim Blake Nelson, Ben Whishaw), The Hollars (2016) (Charlie Day, Richard Jenkins), and Benji (2018) (Gabriel Bateman, Darby Camp). On television he made a single-episode cameo in American Horror Story (2014) before his recurring role on Underground (2016) (Jurnee Smollett, Jessica De Gouw). He was also cast in the horror film The Nightmare Man (TBA). He has performed in theatre, including The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and Freckleface Strawberry, and is a member of the Future Problem Solvers Program International.