Steve Burton (actor)
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| Born | Jack Stephen Burton June 28, 1970 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
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| Spouse(s) | Sheree Gustin | ||||||
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Jack Stephen "Steve" Burton (born June 28, 1970) is an American actor who is perhaps best known for playing Jason Morgan on General Hospital from 1991 to 2000 and subsequently from 2002 to the present, as well as providing the voice for the protagonist of Final Fantasy VII, Cloud Strife.
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[edit] Career
Burton got his break as a surfer boy on the sitcom Out of This World in 1987. His first acting teacher was Jon Cedar at Theater-Theater in Hollywood, where he trained with fellow actors Gedde Watanabe and Chris Aable. In 2007, Burton became an original cast member of the General Hospital prime-time spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift while maintaining his day job on General Hospital. Previously, he appeared on Days of Our Lives in 1988 as Harris Michaels, a love interest to Eve Donovan, played by Charlotte Ross.
Burton also appeared in the science fiction miniseries Taken and in the movie The Last Castle in 2001 with Robert Redford and James Gandolfini. Burton is also the voice actor of Cloud Strife from the Final Fantasy VII series. He has voiced Cloud in the game Kingdom Hearts and its sequel, Kingdom Hearts II, as well as in the CGI movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and the video games Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII.
[edit] Personal life
Burton was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Tory Burton, an optician.[1] and Jack Burton [2] who he is named after, now divorced. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California[3] and married Sheree Gustin on January 16, 1999. They had their first child, a daughter named Makena Grace, on September 5, 2003. Their second child, a son named Jack Marshall Burton, was born on March 26, 2006.
Burton is known as a practical joker on the set of GH, and one of his closest friends is former co-star Michael Saucedo, husband of close friend and current co-star Rebecca Herbst. He is also best friends with his on-screen best friend Maurice Benard.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Steve Burton Biography (1970-)
- ^ 50 Facts About Steve Burton
- ^ Steve Burton: Jason Quartermaine on General Hospital, WCHS-TV. Accessed September 8, 2008. "Before graduating from Beverly Hills High school, "a world apart from the environment I was accustomed to," he emphasizes, Mr. Burton studied drama and was a member of the school's acclaimed Theatre 40."
- ^ "Buzz", Soap Opera Weekly (2007-02-13), p. 8.
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