Breckin Meyer Movies and Career Information

Breckin Erin Meyer (born May 7, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer and drummer. Meyer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Dorothy Ann (née Vial), a travel agent and former microbiologist, and Christopher William Meyer, a management consultant. As a child of divorced parents, he lived in California, Texas, West Virginia and New Jersey. He has an older brother, Frank, and a younger brother, Adam. Meyer attended elementary school with Drew Barrymore (and was apparently her first kiss) and also attended Beverly Hills High School. Through his elementary school, he came into contact with Barrymore's agent, who signed Meyer. As a child, he was mostly seen in television advertisements. Meyer lent his screen presence to several roles as a druggie, starting with his debut in "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" (1991), in which he was dispatched in a video game. His breakthrough screen role was as the skateboarding stoner (a homage to Sean Penn in 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High) in the teen hit Clueless (1995). Meyer offered similar characterizations in The Craft and John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. (both 1996). He played the best friend of an Olympic