Steven Bauer was born on Esteban Ernesto Echevarria Samson; December 2,1956 and is a Cuban-born American actor.
16 Facts About Steven Bauer
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Steven Bauer played the drug cartel leader Eladio Vuente in Breaking Bad and in Better Call Saul and the retired Mossad agent Avi Rudin in Ray Donovan.
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Steven Bauer was born Esteban Ernesto Echevarria Samson, on December 2,1956, in Havana, Cuba, the son of Lillian Samson Agostini, a schoolteacher, and Esteban Echevarria, a commercial pilot who worked for Cubana Airlines.
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Steven Bauer's family emigrated from Cuba to the United States on Independence Day, 1960, when he was three years old, shortly after the end of the Cuban Revolution, settling in Miami, Florida.
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Steven Bauer graduated from Miami Coral Park High School in 1974 and went on to study acting at Miami Dade Community College and then at the University of Miami, where he befriended Ray Liotta.
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Steven Bauer appeared in the 1980 TV miniseries From Here to Eternity.
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Steven Bauer was credited in these and a few other early projects as Rocky Echevarria.
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In 1981, Steven Bauer starred in the television movie She's in the Army Now, where he met his first wife, actress Melanie Griffith.
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Steven Bauer was given the role of Manny Ribera in the 1983 movie Scarface, even though he was a relatively unknown actor at the time.
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Steven Bauer's performance drew a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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In 1990 Bauer played the role of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in the television miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story alongside Benicio Del Toro and Craig T Nelson.
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That same year, Steven Bauer took over the series lead of the television show Wiseguy from Ken Wahl for the fourth and final season, playing US Attorney Michael Santana after Wahl's character disappears.
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Since then, Steven Bauer has made his career primarily, though not exclusively, in action films and crime dramas on both the big and small screens.
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In 2011, Steven Bauer appeared on the series Breaking Bad playing Mexican drug lord Don Eladio.
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Steven Bauer reprised his Breaking Bad role in 2017 in AMC's prequel Better Call Saul.
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Steven Bauer has married four times: first to Melanie Griffith, from 1981 until 1989; second to Ingrid Anderson, from 1989 until 1991; third to Christiana Boney, from 1992 until 2002; and fourth to Paulette Miltimore, from 2003 until 2012.