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 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.

In 1997, he starred opposite model Amanda de Cadenet in Fall, about a cab driver who picks up a model and 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.

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 turned the blog into a book of the same name. In 2008, Schaeffer debuted a reality television show on Showtime, also called, “I Can’t Believe I’m Still Single.”

In 2009, Schaeffer and Jill Franklyn created the half-hour dramedy series Gravity for Starz. The series about people who have failed at sucide—originally titled Failure to Fly—stars Schaeffer along with Krysten Ritter, Ivan Sergei, Ving Rhames and Rachel Hunter. It began airing in April 2010.

Schaeffer is a native of New York City, with a second home in Vermont. —wikipedia