Craig Sheffer

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Craig Sheffer

Born	April 23, 1960 (age 48) York, Pennsylvania

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.^[1]^[2] His brother is writer Hogan Sheffer.

Sheffer was first seen on a nationwide basis on the television circuit. He played Ian Hayden on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live, and was cast 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, and as an antagonistic rich kid in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987).

The two film roles for which he is best known occurred in the early 1990s. He portrayed author Norman Maclean) in A River Runs Through It in (1992), and played Heisman Trophy candidate quarterback Joe Kane in The Program in 1993.

Among Sheffer's other films include Fire in the Sky (1993), Bliss (1997), and Sleep With Me (1994) (top-billed, as the apex of a romantic triangle which included Eric Stoltz and Meg Tilly). He played the leading role in Clive Barker's Nightbreed (1990), and 10 years later played the leading role in Clive Barker's brainchild franchise Hellraiser: Inferno.

Craig Sheffer is known to TV audiences for his portrayal of Keith Scott, the nice-guy older brother of the wealthy and nefarious auto dealer Dan Scott, on the CW Network series One Tree Hill. Sheffer is no longer a series regular, as his character was killed by his brother Dan, but he has come back as a ghost and a "guardian angel" for his character's nephews. He has also been seen in the TV movie The Long Lost Son (drama, 120 minutes, 2006).

Most recently, Sheffer directed the feature film, American Crude. The film's release date and story details have not been announced.