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Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rodney Harvey was discovered by the director Paul Morrissey in 1984, who cast him in Mixed Blood (1984), and later, and Spike of Bensonhurst (1988). Harvey dropped out of high school after the 11th grade and moved to Los Angeles, where he continued acting. Bruce Webber lensed him for Life magazine, in a layout featuring Madonna, and he flirted with River Phoenix in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine.
It was during the making of My Own Private Idaho, that Harvey began using heroin. Several stints in jail - and attempts to get clean - followed, before he died of a heroin and cocaine overdose on 11 April 1998, at the Hotel Barbizon in Los Angeles.
Following his death, photos of Harvey in the depths of heroin addiction appeared in a harrowing Office of Drug Control Policy (Partnership for a Drug-Free America) public service announcement. He made his last onscreen appearance in the drama God's Lonely Man (1996).
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