American actor, writer, film director
Burr Gore Steers is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. His films include Igby Goes Down and 17 Again . He is a nephew of writer Gore Vidal.Family Steers was born in Washington, D.C. His father, Newton Ivan Steers, Jr. , was a businessman and politician who briefly served as a Republican congressman from Maryland. Through his mother, Nina Gore Auchincloss , 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' godfather is former Virginia Senator John Warner.
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