Eric Thal
Eric Thal ( born August 10, 1965 in Niskayuna, New York, USA) is an American film actor and professional wrestler.
Life
Eric Thal attended Haverford Preparatory School until 1983, in Haverford, Pennsylvania, where he worked among others in the student. He then moved to the Lafayette College in Easton, to study mechanical engineering. At the same time, he participated in acting workshops. With the encouragement of his drama teacher Richard Bruer, he broke the College from after only one year in order to devote himself entirely to acting. On The Neighbourhood Playhouse Theatre, he studied with Richard Pinter and also learned Classical Theatre of the famous acting coach Ada Brown Mather.
After several appearances in commercials and as a magician in New York City valley began to be able to keep financially afloat, to wrestle. His coach was the famous Neil Buckley.
Only now, the directors were aware of him, even though he has been involved to date in barely above average known productions. His film debut was in 1992 in Gentle eyes do not lie on the side of Melanie Griffith and directed by Sidney Lumet. Since then, he has appeared in 15 other films.
His two most prominent roles include that of Samson in Samson and Delilah from the year 1996 and the Carl Heine Jr. in " Snow Falling on Cedars " by 1999.
Valley standard voice actor is Patrick Winczewski.
Thal lives in New York City. Since the 1990s, he is interested in music and plays the piano, drums and guitar.