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Actor Eric Stoltz.

Actor Eric Stoltz. He's gotten a reputation playing parts in films like "Killing Zoe," "Pulp Fiction," and "The Waterdance," "Some Kind of Wonderful," and many other films. As a child he played the disfigured boy in "Mask," and was a Sean Penn's surfing high school pal in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." He's played Helen Hunt's ex-boyfriend in the TV show "Mad About You." Currently he's starring in "Kicking and Screaming." Soon he'll be playing the insect in the upcoming film, "Fly II."

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