Eric Thal

Eric Thal is an American actor whose work spans film, television, and theater. Raised in the Philadelphia area, he began as a magician and took acting lessons from age fourteen. After moving to New York, he was cast in his first film role. Sidney Lumet chose him for the lead part of Ariel, opposite Melanie Griffith, in A Stranger Among Us (1992). He went on to play Rick in Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Sam Nivens in The Puppet Masters (1994), Carl Heine, Jr. in Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), and Harry in Mouth to Mouth (2005). His other film appearances include The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992), Wishful Thinking (1999), and The Good Guy (2009). On television, he starred in Samson and Delilah and opposite Halle Berry in The Wedding, and appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 1996 he created the role of The Special Witness in Christopher Durang's Sex and Longing on Broadway.