Boyishly handsome with a winning smile, this native New Yorker started out in theater before he began booking TV gigs, including a one-year stint on the soap
As the World Turns, which introduced him to his first wife, Finn Carter. But 1990 was his breakthrough year: Not only did he earn kudos for his portrayal of JFK in the miniseries
The Kennedys of Massachusetts, he landed his signature role as a goofy, girl-crazy pilot on
Wings. During his tenure on the lightweight sitcom, he popped up in a variety of film roles that showcased his undeniable charm: a cheating boyfriend in
Single White Female, a gay man who swears off sex in
Jeffrey and a comedic vampire hunter in
Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Yet his affable attributes seemed diminished on the big screen, and TV remained his medium. He was chilling in his devilish turn as a murderous husband in the miniseries of
The Shining, the first of a string of successful small-screen collaborations with horror writer Stephen King. In the '00s, he tried tackling his own eponymous sitcom, which was prophetically renamed
Cursed before being canceled, and returned to his old stage stomping ground in the Broadway musical
The Producers. After a couple of failed series and a slew of guest spots, he snagged his best role in years, as a hard-ass TV executive on Aaron Sorkin's
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a series set behind the scenes of a late-night sketch-comedy show.
Steven Weber Fast Facts:
- Worked as an elevator operator at a health club before becoming an actor.
- Was a member of the Off-Broadway Mirror Repertory Company in 1983.
- Won a Best Actor Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films for the 1997 miniseries Stephen King's The Shining.
- Steven Weber Relationships:
- Alfie James Weber - Son
- Finn Carter - Ex-wife
- Fran Leslie - Mother
- Jack Alexander Hohnen-Weber - Son
- Juliette Hohnen - Wife
- Stuart Weber - Father
- College:
- Attended State University of New York, Purchase, NY
