Michael Schoeffling is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on December 10, 1960 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States. He was best known for his role as Jake Ryan, the heartthrob in Sixteen Candles. Later, he played Joe in Mermaids. His role as Kuch, in Vision Quest, earned him additional fame. He then played Al Carver in Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken, which concluded his career.
After playing He rose to fame after playing Molly Ringwald‘s love interest in the film Sixteen Candles., his love interest in Sixteen Candles, he rose to fame.
An accomplished youth and collegiate wrestler, Michael has won medals in various national and international tournaments. He won a gold medal for the United States in freestyle wrestling, as a member of the National Junior Wrestling Team in a meet held in Munich, Germany in 1978 alongside coach Archie Stalcup. His considerable wrestling skills were downplayed as ‘Kuch’ in Vision Quest, where he was a teammate of a character played by Matthew Modine.
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.
He married former model Valerie L. Robinson. They had two children together, Scarlet and Zane.
