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Eric Stoltz (born September 30, 1961) is an American actor widely considered one of the most prominent and diverse performers in independent film. He has starred in big studio movies such as Mask
, Some Kind of Wonderful
, Memphis Belle, Rob Roy and Little Women, as well as the indy film faves The Waterdance, Pulp Fiction
, Kicking and Screaming and The House of Mirth.

He is known primarily for playing either sensitive misfits (Mask
, Kicking and Screaming
, "The Waterdance") or sociopathic criminals (Pulp Fiction
, Killing Zoe
). In Pulp Fiction
, he played Lance, who refused to help Vincent (John Travolta) with Marsellus Wallace's wife Mia (Uma Thurman) who was about to die unless she received a shot of adrenaline to the heart.

Originally cast as Marty McFly in Back to the Future
(1985), he was replaced after filming had started, when Michael J. Fox (the directors first choice for the role) became free from his sitcom Family Ties. The director, Robert Zemeckis, has said that Stoltz was giving a serious performance, but what he wanted was a 'sitcomy touch'.(The first film was half finished,but never released)

On television, he has played Helen Hunt's boyfriend on Mad About You, Debra Messing's boyfriend on Will and Grace, and the English teacher-poet August Dimitri in ABC's Once and Again.

He produced the films Bodies, Rest & Motion in 1993, Sleep with Me in 1994, and Mr. Jealousy in 1997. as well as working as a production assistant on Say Anything
and Singles
.

More recently, he has starred in The Butterfly Effect
with Ashton Kutcher, and The Triangle with Sam Neill. He also guest-starred in a 2003 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as the 2005 season finale of the NBC sitcom Will & Grace.

Trained in the theatre, Stoltz has also appeared on Broadway and off-Broadway, in such diverse plays as Three Sisters, The Importance of Being Ernest, Arms and the Man
, The Glass Menagerie
, Two Shakespearean Actors, Sly Fox, and Our Town, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award.

He has contributed essays to the books 'City Secrets- New York' as well as 'Life Interrupted' by Spalding Gray, and appears on the children's CD 'Philadelphia Chickens'.

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