Background
Coffey was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he began his acting career appearing in school plays, community theatre and with the Hawaii Performing Arts Company.
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His film credits include Shag, Some Kind of Wonderful, Dream Lover, and Mulholland Drive. He directed Ellie Parker in 2005. Personal life
He also appeared in several episodic television shows.
He is now an acclaimed writer director
Coffey lives in Portland, Oregon with his boyfriend, novelist Blair Mastbaum. At sixteen, with the money he had earned acting, he travelled to Europe.
Inspired by Bertolucci"s Louisiana Luna, he felt compelled to visit Rome along with Paris and Budapest. He stayed three years, attending high school in Rome and acting in seven films, including Once Upon a Time in America and the Columbia Broadcasting System miniseries Christopher Columbus.
While on location for Christopher Columbus, he was contacted by the William Morris Agency and moved to New York, where he signed with the agency and studied acting while co-starring in the off-Broadway play lieutenant"s All Talk.
After a year he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his film career and has been working ever since, appearing in Ferris Bueller"s Day Office and SpaceCamp His television work includes a special The New Twilight Zone entitled "Private Channel", as well as an episode of Amazing Stories episode directed by Robert Zemeckis. lieutenant was released in late 2005 by Strand Releasing. He wrote another film based on All God"s Children Can Dance by Haruki Murakami.
