Eric Stoltz Movies and Career Information

Eric Hamilton Stoltz (born September 30, 1961) is an American actor and director. He is known for playing sensitive misfits (Mask, Kicking and Screaming, The Waterdance, Killing Zoe). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for Mask. He currently stars in the science fiction television series Caprica. Stoltz was born in Whittier, California, the son of Evelyn B. (née Vawter), a violinist and schoolteacher who died in 1994, and Jack Stoltz, an elementary school teacher. He has two older sisters, mezzo soprano Catherine Stoltz and writer Susan R. Stoltz Eric was raised in both American Samoa and Santa Barbara, California, where as a child, he once earned money playing piano for local musical theatre productions. He attended the University of Southern California but dropped out after his junior year. In the 1970s Stoltz joined a repertory company that performed ten plays at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. He returned to the United States in 1979, when he entered USC as a drama student, but subsequently dropped out to pursue film and TV roles. In the late 1970s he was cast as Carol Burnett and Charles Grodin's son in the TV adaptation