Burr Gore Steers is an American actor, screenwriter, and director; notable films include Igby Goes Down and 17 Again.
Background
Steers was born in Washington, District of Columbia His father, Newton Ivan Steers, Junior. (1917–1993), was a Republican congressman from Maryland. His mother, Nina Gore Auchincloss (born 1937), was the daughter of stockbroker and lawyer Hugh D. Auchincloss, as well as a stepsister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the younger half-sister of the writer Gore Vidal.
Education
Steers grew up living in Bethesda, Maryland and Georgetown, Washington, District of Columbia, where he attended Saint Albans School. Steers was expelled from both the Hotchkiss School and Culver Military Academy. He eventually earned his General Educational Development and attended.
Career
He is also the nephew of writer Gore Vidal. Steers is a relative of vice president Aaron Burr, the third Vice President of the United States. Steers" godfather is former Virginia Senator John Warner.
He has another brother, Ivan Steers, and five stepsiblings from his mother"s second marriage to editor Michael Whitney Straight.
Education Steers has had minor roles in a few of Quentin 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 starred Kieran Culkin and Susan Sarandon. Steers also was the screenwriter of the film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, which starred Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey.
He has directed episodes of the television series Weeds, The L Word, Big Love, and The New Normal.
Steers also directed the 2009 teen comedy film, 17 Again starring Zac Efron. In 2010 Steers directed the drama Charlie Saint Cloud, also starring Efron. Also in 2010, there was media coverage for Steers" being hired to direct an epic film about the early life of Julius Caesar to be based on the novels by Conn Iggulden as adapted from the first two novels of Iggulden"s series, The Gates of Rome and The Death of Kings, and covering the years from 92 British Columbia to 71 British Columbia. Exclusive Media Group hired Steers after having the adaptation written by William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan.
Steers directed the 2016 film adaptation of the parody novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.