Since giving up acting, he has produced handcrafted furniture as the owner of a woodworking shop. He appeared in eight additional films after Sixteen Candles, including roles in Vision Quest and Mermaids, and starring roles in the 1986 action film Let's Get Harry and 1991's Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. For Valentine's Day in 2004, twenty years after the film's American premiere, The Washington Post published an article entitled 'Real Men Can't Hold a Match to Jake Ryan of Sixteen Candles', which discussed the character's enduring appeal. Schoeffling came to international prominence at the age of 23 for his role as Jake Ryan, the popular yet sensitive high school athlete on whom Molly Ringwald's character has a crush in the teen film Sixteen Candles. In the mid-1980s he began modeling for GQ, and photographer Bruce Weber paid for his acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Manhattan.

He attended Temple University in Philadelphia, where he majored in liberal arts. He graduated from Cherokee High School in Evesham Township, New Jersey. Schoeffling was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and raised in South Jersey. Writing for People, Stephanie Petit called the performance 'emotional', while Katie Atkinson of Billboard felt that Pink 'nailed the impossibly high notes at the song's emotional climax'. He is known for playing the role of Jake Ryan in Sixteen Candles, Al Carver in Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, Kuch in Vision Quest, and Joe in Mermaids. In 2018, she attended the 60th Annual Grammy Awards and performed 'Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken', accompanied on stage by an ASL interpreter. Michael Earl Schoeffling (born December 10, 1960) is an American former actor and model.

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