Schoeffling came to international prominence at the age of 23 for his role as Jake Ryan, the popular yet sensitive high school athlete on whom Molly Ringwald's character has a crush in the teen film Sixteen Candles. 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 attended Temple University in Philadelphia, where he majored in liberal arts. He graduated from Cherokee High School in Evesham Township, New Jersey. Schoeffling was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and raised in South Jersey. He is 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. Michael Earl Schoeffling (born December 10, 1960) is an American former actor and model.
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