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Full Eric Stoltz Biography
Eric Stoltz (born September 30, 1961) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actor. He has appeared in movies such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful, Memphis Belle, Rob Roy, Little Women, The Waterdance, Pulp Fiction, Kicking and Screaming, The Rules of Attraction, and The House of Mirth.
He is known for playing either sensitive misfits (Mask, Kicking and Screaming, The Waterdance) or sociopathic criminals with a cowardly or nice side (Pulp Fiction, Killing Zoe).
Stoltz was born in Whittier, California, to Evelyn B. Stoltz (who died in 1994) and Jack Stoltz, both teachers. He has two older sisters, Catherine Stoltz (1954) and Susan R. Stoltz (1957). Eric was raised in both American Samoa and Santa Barbara, California, where, by the age of 14, he was earning money by playing piano for the local musical theater productions. He attended the University of Southern California, where he dropped out in his Junior year.
On television, he had a recurring role as Helen Hunt's ex-boyfriend on Mad About You (5 episodes, 1994-1998), he also spent a year on Chicago Hope (1994) and did some TV and cable movies, such as Inside (1996) (TV) (directed by Arthur Penn) and The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999) (with Helen Mirren).
In 2003, he got his first leading role in the TV show, Out of Order, which was cancelled after five episodes. In 2004, he starred as a pedophile father in The Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher; the following year, he guest-starred in the NBC sitcom, Will & Grace, as Debra Messing's love interest.
He was nominated for a daytime Emmy for his direction of the cable movie My Horrible Year (2001). He has also directed a short film entitled The Bulls, as well as the highest rated episode of Law & Order in 2005, entitled "Tombstone". (This was the episode where Det. Green (Jesse L. Martin) was shot and hospitalized.)
He has contributed essays to the books City Secrets—New York as well as Life Interrupted by Spalding Gray, and appears on the children's CD, Philadelphia Chickens.
He lived with actress Ally Sheedy (whom he met in college) sometime before 1983, then with actress Jennifer Jason Leigh from 1985-1989 and with Bridget Fonda from 1990-1998. He currently lives in New Mexico.
Director Cameron Crowe promised Stoltz a role, however small, in every film he makes. For example, in Singles (1992) he appears for no longer than a minute as a mime. Almost Famous is Crowe's only film where Stoltz doesn't do a cameo, however the actor's name does appear briefly on a billboard. |
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