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| Born | Burr Gore Steers October 8, 1965 Washington, D.C. |
Burr Gore Steers[1] (born October 8, 1965) is an American actor, screenwriter and director.
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Steers was born in Washington, D.C.[2][3] His father, Newton Ivan Steers, Jr. (1917–1993), was a Republican congressman from Maryland. His mother, Nina Gore Auchincloss (born 1935), was the daughter of stockbroker and lawyer Hugh D. Auchincloss,[4] as well as a stepsister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and a half-sister of the writer Gore Vidal.[5] Steers is a relative of vice president Aaron Burr.[1][6] Steers' great-grandfather, Thomas Gore, served as Oklahoma's first Democratic senator, from 1907 until 1921 and from 1931 until 1937, while his great-great-grandfather, Oliver Burr Jennings, was a founder of Standard Oil. Steers' godfather is former Virginia Senator John Warner.
His brother Hugh Auchincloss Steers (1963–1995) was an American figurative painter whose later works often focused on AIDS as a theme. He has another brother, Ivan Steers, and five stepsiblings from his mother's second marriage to editor Michael Whitney Straight.[7]
Steers grew up living in Bethesda, MD and Georgetown, DC. There, he attended St. Albans School in Washington, DC. Steers was expelled from both Hotchkiss School and Culver Military Academy. He later earned a GED and attended New York University.[1]
Steers has had minor roles in a few of Quentin Tarantino's films, playing Roger (or "Flock of seagulls") in Pulp Fiction and providing one of the radio voices in Reservoir Dogs. He also has appeared in The Last Days of Disco, Fix and Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid.[8]
He wrote and directed Igby Goes Down in 2002, an acidic urban coming of age film that starred Kieran Culkin and Susan Sarandon.[9] Steers also was the screenwriter of the film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, which starred Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey.[10] He has directed episodes of the television series Weeds, The L Word, and Big Love.[8] Steers also directed the 2009 teen comedy film, 17 Again starring Zac Efron.[11] In 2010, Steers directed the drama Charlie St. Cloud, also starring Efron.[12]
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