Brandon Lee Eliza "Lisa" Hutton at director Renny Harlin's office, located at the headquarters of 20th Century Fox. Hutton was working as a personal assistant to Harlin, and later became a story editor for Stillwater Productions, in 1991. Lee and Hutton moved in together in early 1991 and became engaged in October 1992. Brandon and Eliza planned to start a family immediately after they were married, but they had yet to conceive when he died. They were due to be married in Ensenada, Mexico, on April 17, 1993, a week after Lee was to complete filming on "The Crow". At the time
Brandon Teena Brandon Teena Brandon Teena (born Teena Renae Brandon; December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American trans man who was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska. His life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film "Boys Don't Cry", which was partially based on the 1998 documentary film "The Brandon Teena Story". Both films also illustrated that legal and medical discrimination contributed to Teena's violent death. Teena's murder, along with that of Matthew Shepard, led to increased lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States. Brandon was born Teena Renae Brandon in Lincoln, Nebraska,