Steve Burton

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Steve Burton (born Jack Stephen Burton on June 28, 1970 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American actor. Having graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California, he got his break as a surfer boy on the sitcom Out of This World in 1987.

He is best known for playing as Jason (Quartermaine) Morgan on General Hospital from 1991 to 2000 and from 2002 to the present. His first acting teacher was Brooke Bundy (Diana Taylor on GH). Burton's first GH audition was all about not fitting A.J. Quartermaine, and then, as his half-brother Jason – a better fit – it was all about fitting in with the much taller actor who won the role of A.J., Gerald Hopkins. So Burton added inches to his 5’11 frame to match Hopkins’ 6’1 frame by stuffing his shoes with paper towels to meet casting director Mark Teschner’s requirement that the brothers match heights.

Previously, he appeared on Days of Our Lives in 1988 as Harris Michaels, a love interest to Eve Donovan (played by Charlotte Ross).

Burton also appeared in the science fiction miniseries Taken and in the movie The Last Castle (2001) with Robert Redford and James Gandolfini. He provided the voice of Cloud Strife in the game Kingdom Hearts and its sequel, Kingdom Hearts II, as well as in the CGI movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children and the video game Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII.

Steve married Sheree Gustin on January 16, 1999. They had their first child, a daughter named Makena Grace, on September 5, 2003. Their second child, a son named Jack Marshall, was born on March 26, 2006.

Burton attended the same high school as Angelina Jolie, Nicolas Cage, Lenny Kravitz, and Bahar Soomekh. He previously dated actress Tara Reid.

[edit] Awards And Nominations

Burton has been nominated for several Daytime Emmy Awards in the Best Supporting Actor category, and won once.

[edit] Television Filmography

Out of This World (1987)
Circus of the Stars as a Trapeze performer (1988)
Who's The Boss? (1990)
Hollywood Today (with Chris Aable, Gedde Watanabe and Jon Cedar) (1990-1991)^{[citation needed]}
General Hospital as Jason Morgan (1991-2000, 2002-present)
Semper Fi (2001 Pilot as Steve Russell)
Taken as Russell Keyes (2002)
Oprah (2004)