Steven Michael Burns was born on October 9,1973 and is an American actor, musician, producer, director, and television host.
23 Facts About Steve Burns
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Steve Burns is best known as the original host of the long-running children's television program Blue's Clues from 1996 until 2002, for which he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2001.
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Steve Burns was born in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, to Joseph Steve Burns Jr.
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Steve Burns's father served in the US Navy and later became the human resources director of Safeguard Business Systems.
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Steve Burns attended Boyertown Area Senior High School in Berks County, graduating in 1992.
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Steve Burns played in bands called Sudden Impact US, Nine Pound Truck, and the Ivys while in high school and college.
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Steve Burns studied theatre under an acting scholarship at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley, where he was discovered by an agent.
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Steve Burns dropped out of school and moved to New York City to become a professional actor.
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In 1995, Steve Burns auditioned for Blue's Clues, thinking it was a voice-over role for a game show.
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Executive producer and co-creator Traci Paige Johnson reported that of the 100 people they auditioned, Steve Burns was "the realest".
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Steve Burns became "a superstar" among his audience and their parents, but unknown to everyone else, and enjoyed what he called being a "micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be".
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Steve Burns became "very involved" with the production of Blue's Clues from the beginning.
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Steve Burns called it "maddening" and likened it to "acting at the bottom of a swimming pool".
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Steve Burns's departure led to the resurfacing of rumors that had circulated about him since 1998, including death from a heroin overdose, being killed in a car accident, and being replaced with a look-alike.
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Steve Burns has written and directed several episodes of the new show.
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Steve Burns worked on material for his first album, Songs for Dustmites, for two and a half years at a small studio in his home in Brooklyn before it was produced by PIAS Records in late 2002.
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Steve Burns started work on the album after he left Blue's Clues in 2002, and it was released in 2003.
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Steve Burns posted eleven songs on his webpage and then realizing he needed help with drums and arrangements went to Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips for advice.
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Steve Burns appeared on the series in January 2020, playing a Star Trek enthusiast whom the title character meets.
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Steve Burns acted in the 2007 horror-comedy film Netherbeast Incorporated with Darrell Hammond and Dave Foley, playing the part of a vampire.
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Steve Burns appeared in DeSales University's production of Amadeus as the title character in 2007 and appeared in The Comedy of Errors.
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In late 2016, Burns released a children's album with Drozd, titled Foreverywhere under the name "STEVENSTEVEN".
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Steve Burns made a guest appearance on Tim Kubart's 2018 children's album Building Blocks.