- Born
- Birth nameStephanie Ericsson
- Originally from San Francisco, Stephanie Ericsson began her writing career in television when she married Sandy Baron (comedian and actor best known for his role as Jack Klompus on Seinfeld). She worked for the award-wining screenwriter Lonne Elder III (Sounder) as a story editor on movies, including A Woman Called Moses (produced and starring Cicely Tyson) and as a screenwriter for the popular sitcom, Mork & Mindy (starring Robin Williams).
Love and a second marriage with film director, Jim Hinton, of Wilson Griak Inc. took her to Minneapolis-Saint Paul where she wrote numerous docudramas and films and became a senior copywriter at the advertising agency Campbell-Mithun.
In 1988, when she was pregnant with their first child, her husband, Jim, died suddenly of a heart attack. From the private journals she kept after he died, she wrote Companion Through The Darkness, Inner Dialogues on Grief which became an instant classic on grief from the moment it was published by HarperCollins in 1993.- IMDb mini biography by: SE - Originally from San Francisco, Stephanie Ericsson began her writing career in television when she married Sandy Baron, comedian and actor, best known for his role as Jack Klompus on _ Seinfeld (1989) ). She appeared briefly with Sandy in _Straight Time (1978) with Dustin Hoffman, although she never considered herself an actress, before or since. She worked for the award-wining screenwriter Lonne Elder III , _Sounder (1972), as a story editor on movies, including _A Woman Called Moses (1978) as well as a screenwriter for the popular sitcom, _Mork & Mindy (1978).
Love and a second marriage with film director, Jim Hinton, of Wilson Griak Inc. took her to Minneapolis-Saint Paul where she wrote numerous docudramas and films and became a senior copywriter at the advertising agency Campbell-Mithun.
In 1988, when she was pregnant with their first child, her husband, Jim, died suddenly of a heart attack. From the private journals she kept after he died, she wrote Companion Through The Darkness, Inner Dialogues on Grief which became an instant classic on grief from the moment it was published by HarperCollins in 1993.- IMDb mini biography by: SE
- SpousesJim Hinton(June 8, 1985 - November 17, 1988) (his death, 1 child)Sandy Baron(January 11, 1976 - September 9, 1981) (divorced)
- During the filming of Straight Time (1978), Ericsson visited the set to watch her (then) husband, Sandy Baron shoot one of his scenes with Dustin Hoffman. Hoffman spied her behind the cameramen and, without knowing she was Baron's wife, pointed at her and said, "You! You look like a gangster's wife! Come over here..." Hoffman immediately cast her in the scene they were shooting. Being a writer by training and trade, Ericsson never aspired to be an actress before or since.
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