Craig Eric Sheffer (born April 23, 1960) is an American film and television actor.
Sheffer was born in York, Pennsylvania to a mother who worked in a nursing home and a father who worked as a prison guard and screenwriter. His brother is writer Hogan Sheffer. He is a graduate of York Suburban Senior High School. He is 6' 2".
Sheffer was first seen on a nationwide basis as Ian Hayden on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live, and as the teena...
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Craig Eric Sheffer (born April 23, 1960) is an American film and television actor.
Sheffer was born in York, Pennsylvania to a mother who worked in a nursing home and a father who worked as a prison guard and screenwriter. His brother is writer Hogan Sheffer. He is a graduate of York Suburban Senior High School. He is 6' 2".
Sheffer was first seen on a nationwide basis as Ian Hayden on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live, and as the teenage son of Michael Goodwin and Leigh Taylor-Young on the 1983 prime time serial The Hamptons. His earliest starring assignment in films was as the best friend of troubled teenager Emilio Estevez in That Was Then... This Is Now (1985), a reformatory camp inmate in Fire with Fire (1986), and an antagonistic rich kid in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987).
The three film roles for which he is probably best known were produced in the early 1990s. He portrayed the lead role of Aaron Boone/Cabal in Nightbreed (1990), author Norman Maclean in A River Runs...
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