Generations of viewers met Henson on an ice rink. Cast as Fulton Reed in 1992’s The Mighty Ducks, he played the quiet enforcer with an unstoppable slapshot. Alongside Aaron Lohr’s Dean Portman, Henson formed the "Bash Brothers," injecting physical comedy into three feature films. He reprised the character in 2021 for Disney+’s The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, showing that fans still embraced his early work.
By the late 1990s, Henson avoided the common traps awaiting child actors. He moved effortlessly into darker material. In 1999’s horror-comedy Idle Hands, he starred as Tn, a slacker killed by his possessed friend only to return as an indifferent zombie. The film flopped commercially before developing a massive midnight-movie following. Five years later, he delivered a chilling, tragic performance in The Butterfly Effect (2004) as Lenny Kagan, a traumatized young man broken by childhood accidents across alternate timelines.
That ability to communicate weight without broad theatrics earned him the role of Pollux in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 and Part 2. Playing an Avox whose tongue was cut out by the Capitol, Henson had no dialogue across both mega-budget films. He carried the character's trauma through body language and silent reactions alongside Jennifer Lawrence. It stood as a masterclass in economy.
