Burr Gore Steers (born October 8, 1965) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. His films include Igby Goes Down (2002) and 17 Again (2009). He is a nephew of writer Gore Vidal.

Early life and education Steers was born in Washington, D.C. His father, Newton Ivan Steers, Jr. (1917–1993), was a businessman and politician who briefly served as a Republican congressman from Maryland. Through his mother, Nina Gore Auchincloss (born 1937),The Kennedy White House: Family Life and Pictures, 1961-1963 By Carl Sferrazza Anthony, page 149 he is a grandson of stockbroker and lawyer Hugh D. Auchincloss, a cousin of Louis Auchincloss. Nina is also the stepsister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and younger half-sister of the writer Gore Vidal. Steers is a relative of vice president Aaron Burr, the third Vice President of the United States. Steers's great-grandfather Thomas Gore served as Oklahoma's first Democratic senator, from 1907 until 1921 and from 1931 until 1937, while his great-great-grandfather Oliver Burr Jennings was a founder of Standard Oil. Steers's godfather was former Virginia Senator John Warner.

His brother Hugh Auchincloss Steers (1963–1995) was an American figurative painter whose later works often focused on AIDS as a theme. He has another brother, Ivan Steers, and five stepsiblings from his mother's second marriage to editor Michael Whitney Straight.*Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives (London: HarperCollins, 1998; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pg., 130.

Steers grew up living in Bethesda, Maryland and Georgetown, Washington, D.C., where he attended St. Albans School. Steers was expelled from both the Hotchkiss School and Culver Military Academy. He eventually earned his GED and attended New York University."Film; A Family's Legacy: Pain and Humor (and a Movie)", New York Times, September 15, 2002.

Career 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, a 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 St. Cloud, also starring Efron. Also in 2010, there was media coverage for Steers having been 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 BC to 71 BC. 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.

Filmography Film Year Title Director Writer Ref. 2002 Igby Goes Down 2003 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 2009 17 Again 2010 Charlie St. Cloud 2016 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Acting roles Year Title Role Notes Ref. 1989 Intruder Bub 1992 Reservoir Dogs Background Radio Play Voice Only 1993 Naked in New York Shipley 1994 Pulp Fiction Roger 1998 Fix Mitch The Last Days of Disco Van 2013 Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia Himself Also co-producer

Television Director Year Title Notes Ref. 2005 The L Word Episode "Labyrinth" Weeds Episode "Fashion of the Christ" 2007 Big Love Episode "Vision Thing" 2012 The New Normal Episode "Para-New Normal Activity" 2018 Elemental: Hydrogen Vs. Hindenburg Miniseries 2021 Chapelwaite Episodes "Blood Calls Blood" and "Memento Mori";Also executive producer

Acting roles Year Title Role Notes Ref. 1989 Billy the Kid Billy Henchman TV movie 1990 The New Adam-12 Episode "The Killing" Room for Romance Episode "A Midsummer Night's Reality" 1993 Silk Stalkings Jason Lyons Episode "Sex, Lies and Yellow Tape"

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