Complex sentence: Actor Michael Schoeffling (born 1960 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey) began his career in the mid- 1980s as a "GQ" male fashion model, photographed by the likes of Bruce Weber.
Split into simpler sentences: Actor Michael Schoeffling (born 1960 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey). He began his career in the mid- 1980s as a "GQ" male fashion model, photographed by the likes of Bruce Weber.