Early Life and Education
Eric's father, a professor and director of the Asian Studies department at Georgetown, is Jewish-American of Lithuanian descent and his mother, an opera singer and voice professor at George Washington University, is Korean. Eric's family had a true appreciation for the arts. Eric's father loved theatre and literature, and Eric read Beckett and Shakespeare as a child.
Eric attended the University of Vermont and the University of Kent in England prior to receiving an acting fellowship at the University of California at Irvine, CA. He lived in Thailand for some time with his parents and brother growing up. His older brother, Alexander, is a photographer.
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