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Steve Weber Bio
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Steve Weber
Steven Weber was born March 4, 1961 in Queens, New York. His father was a manager for comedians while his mother was a nightclub singer. Starting his acting career as early as the third grade, Weber always knew acting would be in his future. To that end, he graduated from the High School of Performing Arts, completing his secondary education at the Statue University of New York at Purchase.
Weber took a hiatus from seriously pursuing acting until after his college education was complete. He then joined the Mirror Reparatory Company with whom he acted in several stage productions. In 1984 he landed a role in the Mark Twain television adaptation of Pudd’nhead Wilson as well as a small role in Garry Marshall’s The Flamingo Kid.
By 1986 Weber had landed a very public and popular role. From the years of 1985 to 1986 he acted opposite Julianne Moore in the enduring soap opera As the World Turns. After leaving the show, he dramatically shifted gears to act in the 1987 Vietnam centered film Hamburger Hill with Don Cheadle and Dylon McDermott.
Despite scant work for the next three years, Weber managed to keep his head afloat. The wait would prove to be well worth it. In 1990 he became part of the well received three-night television mini-series The Kennedys of Massachusetts, playing John F Kennedy.
In this same year Weber also landed a principle role on the highly successful television series Wings. This is probably his most well-known role to date, playing carefree, womanizing pilot, Brian Hackett. The series also starred Tim Daly, Crystal Bernard, Thomas Haden Church, and Tony Shalhoub (for fifteen episodes). The show came to an end in 1995, but the same could not be said for Weber’s career.
Weber’s time was not completely consumed by Wings, acting in other productions while his hit series was still on the air. Most notably, in 1992 he starred with Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh in Single White Female. He also appeared for one episode in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the film Betrayed by Love with Patricia Arquette. In 1995 he took on the comedy/drama Jeffrey about a young gay man that chooses celibacy over the complications of love and dating. The film also starred Nathan Lane and Patrick Stewart.
Equally at home in dramas, Weber took a supporting role in Leaving Las Vegas which ultimately won Nicolas Cage his Oscar and Elisabeth Shue her Oscar nomination. Again demonstrating his genre hopping abilities, Weber promptly moved on to the silly comedy Dracula: Dead and Loving It with Leslie Nielsen and directed by Mel Brooks.
He was back in the spotlight with his portrayal of Jack in the television mini-series remake of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1997). In 1998 he costarred in the Larry David written and directed Sour Grapes and provided his voice talents to The Simpsons and The New Batman Adventures. Also in 1998, Weber surprised many with his particularly moving work in Thanks of a Grateful Nation which centered on post-Desert Storm soldiers. This same year he even had a role in Ed Wood’s no-dialogue comedy I Woke up Early the Day I Died.
In 1999 Weber moved briefly to romantic comedies for his role in Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino’s At First Sight and Love Letters with Laura Linney. In 2000 he shifted to experimental cinema in Timecode, the first film to use a split screen technique having four simultaneous and loosely interconnected stories playing at once.
From 2000 to 2001, he once again had his own sitcom. Initially it was called Cursed but was later changed to The Weber Show. By whatever title, the series didn’t capture a loyal audience, and it was canceled before really getting a chance to start.
Recently, Weber has focused on the medium of television. He played Sam Blue in ABC’s Once and Again as well as a role on The D.A. He appeared for several episodes on Will and Grace, and is currently trying to launch his new series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, also starring Amanda Peet and Matthew Perry. His latest project is Choose Connor, in production.
Weber has also been very involved in theater over the years. His first Broadway appearance was in The Real Thing, and from 2001 to 2002 he relieved Matthew Broderick of his stage lead in The Producers.
Weber met his first wife on the set of As the World Turns. Her name was Finn Carter, and the two had no children together. He married his second wife, Juliette Hohnen, in 1995. The two are still together and have two children. |
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Steve Weber - Starred in Garry Marshall 's 'The Flamingo Kid.'
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Steve Weber - Starred in the soap opera 'As the World Turns' opposite Julianne Moore . |
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Steve Weber - Starred in 'Hamburger Hill' with Don Cheadle . |
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