Eric Steinberg (Wayne Fields)

 
Eric D. Steinberg (born in Washington, D.C.) is an American actor who most recently played the role of Emily Fields' father in the ABC Family hit series Pretty Little Liars. Eric is the youngest of two children. His father, a professor and director of the Asian Studies department at Georgetown University, is Jewish-American of Lithuanian descent and his mother, an opera singer and voice professor at George Washington University, is Korean. Eric's family had a true appreciation for the arts. Eric's father loved theatre and literature, and Eric read Beckett and Shakespeare as a child. Eric attended the University of Vermont and the University of Kent in England prior to receiving an acting fellowship at the University of California at Irvine. He lived in Thailand for some time with his parents and brother growing up. Currently, he resides in Los Angeles. His older brother, Alexander, is a photographer. His older half-brother, Christopher, passed away.