Eric Schaeffer

Eric Schaeffer (born January 22, 1962) is an American actor/writer/director in film and television. Schaeffer graduated with a degree in drama and dance from Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. After graduating, he drove a NYC cab for 9 years, during which time he wrote two stageplays, a novel, 20 screenplays and various other works. He rose to fame with fellow actor/writer/director Donal Lardner Ward on the 1993 independent film, My ... more

Eric Schaeffer (born January 22, 1962) is an American actor/writer/director in film and television. Schaeffer graduated with a degree in drama and dance from Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. After graduating, he drove a NYC cab for 9 years, during which time he wrote two stageplays, a novel, 20 screenplays and various other works. He rose to fame with fellow actor/writer/director Donal Lardner Ward on the 1993 independent film, My Life's in Turnaround, which was made in 15 days for only $200,000. Schaeffer and Ward parlayed Turnaround's success into Too Something, a short-lived television series that was briefly renamed "New York Daze." He signed on as a client of Creative Artists Agency and made a deal to direct, If Lucy Fell, for $3.5 million at Columbia TriStar, for which he was taken to task for casting the model Elle Macpherson as his love interest. In 1997, he starred opposite model Amanda de Cadenet in Fall, about a cab driver who picks up a model and takes her... less