Vital Statistics:

Birth date: September 1961
Alma Mater : USC

Occupation: Actor, Producer, Director

Awards/Nominations

Golden Globe© - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (nom, 1986) Mask

Theatre World Award - (winner, 1988)Our Town

Tony© - Featured role/Play (nom, 1989) Our Town

Independent Spirit Award - Best Supporting Male (nom, 1995)Pulp Fiction

LA Film Festival - Indie Supporter Award (won, 1998)

Audie Award--Fiction, Abridged (won,2001) Raveling (author Peter Moore Smith)

Daytime Emmy© - Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special -- (nom, 2002) Horriblis Annus/My Horrible Year!

Eric Stoltz is the youngest of three children born to a school administrator and a music teacher. He has at least one other sibling involved in the arts and comes from a large extended family. As a young child, he spent time on the island of American Samoa, but his family eventually returned to the States and settled in Southern California. While still in school, Eric Stoltz began playing piano for local theater productions and was "bitten by the [acting] bug."

After leaving university, Eric Stoltz traveled overseas to Scotland and performed in repertory theater. He soon returned to the U.S. and studied with the renowned Stella Adler while taking small roles in television and independent film. His role in Amy Heckerling's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" led to a friendship with its writer Cameron Crowe ("Singles", "Jerry MacGuire", "Almost Famous") who continues to use him in all of his films. Eric Stoltz's breakthrough performance in Peter Bogdonavich's "Mask" earned him a Golden Globe nomination and upped his Hollywood cache. Since then he has acted in a variety of projects (see filmographie) ranging from eclectic independent films to costume dramas to large-scale studio movies while making time for theater, radio, and narrating books on tape. Eric Stoltz has also directed the Emmy Award nominated "Annus Horriblus - My Horrible Year" and produced several independent films.

information c/o us.imdb.com, Byron Allen's "The Entertainers" interview, ampas.com