Edward Walter Furlong is an American actor and musician. Furlong won Saturn and MTV Movie Awards for his breakthrough performance as John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). The following year, he gave an Independent Spirit Award-nominated turn opposite Jeff Bridges in American Heart, and earned a second Saturn Award nomination for his work in Pet Sematary Two. He won a Young Artist Award for his performance alongside Kathy Bates in A Home of Our Own (1993). Furlong received acclaim for his starring roles in the 1998 motion pictures Pecker, co-starring Christina Ricci, and American History X, co-starring Edward Norton. He also appeared in Before and After (1996), with Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson. He had significant roles in the comedy Detroit Rock City (1999) and the crime drama Animal Factory (2000). Furlong has continued to work as an actor, and he is set to reprise his role as John Connor in Terminator: Dark Fate.