Steven Berkoff

Birth Name:

Leslie Steven Berks

Birth Place:

London, England

Profession

Actor, Writer, Director

His 1991 play Kvetch won the Evening Standard Theatre Award
Honored with the Total Theatre Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997
Is the namesake of Alton College's Berkoff Performing Arts Centre which was renamed for him in 2008
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․"
Also enjoys completing voiceover work to video games that have included the Killzone series
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
Stated they he only takes roles in big budget Hollywood films to subsidize his theater work

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