Eric Schaeffer

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Eric Schaeffer is an actor/writer/director in film and television. He is known for struggling with eating disorders, a problem that he has incorporated into his more autobiographical projects, such as Starved and an episode of Too Something.

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. The film was heralded by the press along with other early ’90s indie films like Metropolitan, Clerks, Reservoir Dogs and The Brothers McMullen. Schaeffer and Ward parlayed Turnaround's success into Too Something, a short-lived television series.

Despite this setback, 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. The film performed disappointingly at the box office taking in $2.4 million and was negatively received by many film critics who took him to task for casting the supermodel 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 supermodel, takes her back to his apartment where they begin a passionate affair. In 2000, he released Wirey Spindell, a semi-autobiographical tale. Never Again, starring Jill Clayburgh and Jeffrey Tambor, came next and was followed most recently by 2004’s Mind the Gap.

According to a recent profile in the L.A. Weekly, he will reteam with Ward to make an unofficial sequel to My Life's in Turnaround. It is tentatively entitled, They’re Out of the Business. The budget is set around $300,000 and, according to the article, "follows two guys in their 40s who once had a hit TV show, and are getting back together to make another show and re-create their glory days. At the beginning, Schaeffer’s character, an actor who stars in a TV show called Mr. Big Shot, legally changes his name to Self-Indulgent as a publicity stunt and is then stuck with it after the show is canceled." In recent years he has been writing an autobiographical blog about his relationships and ongoing search for love in a blog entitled "I Can't Believe I'm Still Single."

Schaeffer has been the subject of a recent blogger controversy when Gawker.com's initial post about his blog and upcoming book spawned an outpouring of response from women who claimed to have dated him. In one post, a woman even claimed to have stalked him and been turned down by him.

Schaeffer is a native of New York City with an additional house in Vermont.

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[edit] Credits

[edit] Writer, director & ... actor

  • Starved (2005 TV series) .... Sam
  • Mind The Gap (2004 film) .... Sam Blue
  • Never Again (2001 film)
  • Wirey Spindell (2000 film) .... Wirey Spindell
  • Fall (1997 film) .... Michael
  • If Lucy Fell (1996 film) .... Joe MacGonaughgill
  • Too Something (1995 TV series) .... Eric McDougal
  • My Life's in Turnaround (1993 film) .... Splick

[edit] Actor (only)

[edit] External links

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