Kyle T. Heffner

Kyle T. Heffner is an actor who was born in Chicago, Illinois, and got his start at eleven, when his parents, having noticed his acting ability, enrolled him in a children's theater called the Jack and Jill Players. He moved into professional work in commercials and educational films, studied at Northwestern University, and then left for Los Angeles. Garry Marshall hired him for Young Doctors in Love (1982), the director's debut, and that Jerry Bruckheimer production led to his role as Richie Blazik in Flashdance (1983). He went on to appear in more than a dozen films, among them The Woman in Red (1984), Runaway Train (1985), When Harry Met Sally... (1989) and High Crimes (2002). He also appeared in the television movies Family Plan (2005) and Wishing Well (2009), in guest roles on Seinfeld (1990), Suddenly Susan (1996), Gideon's Crossing (2000) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004), and on the Los Angeles stage in In Heat (2008).