- Burr Steers
Burr Steers (born October 8, 1965) is an American actor, screenwriter and director.
A son of Newton Ivan Steers, Jr. (1917 - 1993), a Republican congressman from
Maryland , andNina Gore Auchincloss (born 1935), a stepsister ofJacqueline Kennedy Onassis and a half-sister of the writerGore Vidal , Steers has had minor roles in a few ofQuentin 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 ".He wrote and directed "
Igby Goes Down " in 2002, an acidic urban coming of age film that starredKieran Culkin andSusan Sarandon . Steers also was the screenwriter of the film "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ", which starredKate Hudson andMatthew McConaughey . He has directed episodes of the television series "Weeds ", "The L Word ", and "Big Love ".His brother
Hugh Auchincloss Steers (1963 - 1995) was an American figurative painter whose later works often focused onAIDS as a theme. He has another brother, Ivan Steers, and five stepsiblings from his mother's second marriage toMichael Straight , an editor of "The New Republic " who also was part of theCambridge Five , a Soviet spy ring of the 1930s whose members includedAnthony Blunt ,Kim Philby ,Guy Burgess , andDonald Maclean . He is married to Jennifer Bott whom he met at a pro-choice demonstration in the early 1990s.His great grandfather,
Thomas P. Gore , served as Oklahoma's first Democratic senator from 1907 until 1921 and from 1931 until 1937.Trivia
Godson of Virginia Senator
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