Personal Life
He was born to a Jewish family in New York City, but they moved to Connecticut shortly after. Kaufman is a graduate of William H. Hall High School in West Hartford, Connecticut. He attended NYU Film School, where one of his classmates was filmmaker Chris Columbus.
Kaufman lived and worked for a time during the late 1980s in Minneapolis, answering calls about missing newspapers at the Star Tribune, before moving to Los Angeles.
He currently lives in Pasadena, California, with his wife and their two children.
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