Rebecca Schaeffer

Rebecca Schaeffer is one of those names I can't say without a pang. A teen model turned actress from Eugene, Oregon, she had genuine warmth on screen and, in Patti from My Sister Sam, a role audiences adored. She was twenty-one, just hitting her stride, when a senseless act stole her future. There's a bitter dignity in knowing her death pushed anti-stalking laws into existence, but it doesn't lessen the loss. Watching her surviving work, I keep imagining the career that should have followed. I think of her not as a cautionary tale but as a real talent cut cruelly short.

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Name (English)

Rebecca Schaeffer

Name (Japanese)

レベッカ・シェイファー

Reading

れべっか・しぇいふぁー

Born

November 6, 1967 – July 18, 1989

Origin

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Height

170 cm

Occupation

actor / television actor / model / film actor / fashion model

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Goat

High school

Lincoln High School

• Official sitehttp://www.rebeccaschaeffer.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Schaeffer
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%99%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q266789

Tags

• Oregon
• actor
• television actor
• model

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.