Michael Schoeffling

Actor

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Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)

Michael Earl Schoeffling is an American former actor and model, known for playing the role of Jake Ryan in Sixteen Candles, Al Carver in Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, Kuch in Vision Quest, and Joe in Mermaids. Schoeffling was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and raised in South Jersey. He graduated from Cherokee High School in New Jersey, and majored in Liberal Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. In the mid-1980s he began modeling for GQ, and photographer Bruce Weber paid for his acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Manhattan.

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Sixteen Candles

7.0

Jake

1984

Mermaids

6.7

1990

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

7.2

Al Carver

1991

Vision Quest

6.7

Kuch

1985

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Actor

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
7.2
- Al Carver
- 1991
Mermaids
6.7
- Joe
- 1990
Longtime Companion
7.6
- Michael
- 1989
Slaves of New York
5.6
- Jan
- 1989
The Hitchhiker
6.7
TV Series
- Lance
- 1986
Let's Get Harry
5.2
- Corey Burck
- 1986
Belizaire the Cajun
6.5
- Hypolite Leger
- 1986
Sylvester
6.2
- Matt
- 1985
Vision Quest
6.7
- Kuch
- 1985
Sixteen Candles
7.0
- Jake
- 1984
Racing with the Moon
6.6
- Amputee Soldier (uncredited)
- 1984

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Height
- 6′ (1.83 m)
Born
- December 10, 1960
- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Spouse
- Valerie Carpenter Bernstein1987 - present (2 children)
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He and his family have been living quietly all these years in northeastern Pennsylvania, where the while teen dream operates a successful business building fine hand-crafted furniture.