Emerging from New Jersey, he left Ridgewood High School at 17 to study at Fordham and Columbia before honing his craft at HB Studio. Early screen work included The Manhattan Project, My Best Friend Is a Vampire and the iconic Neil Perry in Dead Poets Society, followed by leads in Swing Kids, Much Ado About Nothing and Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence. As a co-founder of the Malaparte theater compan…