Steven Berkoff Biography

Fast Facts

• Is the namesake of Alton College's Berkoff Performing Arts Centre which was renamed for him in 2008
• His 1991 play Kvetch won the Evening Standard Theatre Award
• Honored with the Total Theatre Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997
• Often supports the British Heart Foundation and once appeared in a televised PSA for the group
• Studied drama at the L'Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq as well as the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
• Won a 1996 libel trial against a Sunday Times reporter who printed he was 'hideously ugly'
• Quote: "There is something about theatre that draws people together because it's something connected with the human soul․"
• Began his professional stage career in 1962 with Her Majesty's Theatre
• Began writing for stage productions by the 1970s and published a series of verse plays beginning with 1975's East
• Also enjoys completing voiceover work to video games that have included the Killzone series
• Stated they he only takes roles in big budget Hollywood films to subsidize his theater work