Brad William Henke, is an American actor, and former National Football League and Arena Football League player. He was given birth on April 10, 1966.
He received the 2016 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for his work as Orange Is the New Black’s Corrections Officer Desi Piscatella.
In Nebraska’s Columbus, Henke was born. He was a defensive lineman for football and a student at the University of Arizona. He wed actress Katelin Chesna in 2001 and later wed Sonja.
Did Brad William Henke play college football?
Henke was the team captain while playing collegiate football at the University of Arizona in Columbus, Nebraska.
He participated in the 1990 Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers while playing defensive tackle for the Denver Broncos.
When was Brad William Henke drafted?
In the 1989 NFL Draft, the New York Giants selected Henke, but he was released during training camp. The Denver Broncos signed him, and he competed in Super Bowl XXIV against the San Francisco 49ers.
He had to have six ankle operations as a result of persistent ailments, forcing him to give up playing professional football in 1994.
At the age of 56, Henke passed away in his sleep on November 29, 2022, for no apparent reason. He claimed to have a 90% artery blockage in an Instagram post on May 15, 2021.
In a subsequent post dated June 29, 2021, he claimed that a golf ball-sized tumor required the removal of part of his pancreas, his spleen, and two cardiac stents.
