An American actor who has worked in both cinema and television, Steve Howey can presently be seen in the Showtime series “Shameless.” He was a superb athlete in college and would have started a career in basketball if his love of movies had not taken him to Hollywood.
Steve started out in the movie industry before becoming well-known on television. His performances as “Van Montgomery” in “Reba” and “Ben Piller” in “CTRL” are two of his most well-known roles. In the movie “Stan Helsing,” he played the lead.
He has three children with his wife, “Reba” co-star Sarah Shahi. They got into trouble when their nanny claimed them of sexual harassment, verbal abuse, and religious discrimination.
Steve Howey’s Date of Birth
The acting instructor and director Bill Howey gave birth to Steve on July 12, 1977, in San Antonio, Texas. Later, he relocated to Denver, Colorado, where he completed his high school education.
Steve received a basketball scholarship and spent two years attending “Northeastern Junior College” in Sterling, Colorado.
Steve’s parents, who had served in the “US Navy,” had taken him sweeping often as a child around the Pacific Coast.
Before relocating to Denver in the late 1990s, he worked as a server at a Colorado restaurant called “Grady’s American Grill.” Steve decided to pursue acting as a profession despite being an excellent athlete.
Steve Howey’s Wife
Sarah Shahi, an actress, and former “Dallas Cowboys” cheerleader gets wed to Steve. On the sets of “Reba,” the two had first crossed paths in 2004. Later, Steve encouraged her to participate in his dad in acting classes.
During their trip to Hawaii in June 2007, Steve and Sarah got engaged. Their wedding took place in Las Vegas on February 7, 2009. The birth of their son, William Wolf Howey, in July 2009 marked the couple’s entry into parenthood.
Steve became the father to fraternal twins Knox Blue and Violet Moon on March 1st, 2015. Sarah brought up Steve’s Scottish heritage in a part of “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.”
Steve Howey’s Career
In 1998, Steve made his acting debut in the short movie “Class.” His father wrote and directed the movie, and he produced it. The movie was a part of the “Denver International Film Festival’s” official selections.
Steve voiced the narrator for a few episodes of the syndicated animation series “Totally Toned In” and had a short appearance in an episode of the crime thriller “Pacific Blue” in 1999.
The next year, he made a number of appearances, including “Chris DeFalco” in the comedy-drama “Get Real” on the Fox Network, and “Quarterback Elzey” in the medical drama “ER” on NBC, and “The Drew Carey Show” on ABC.
Steve had his first significant TV role in the episode “Everyone Deserves to be Loved” of the “Lifetime” network drama “Any Day Now” as “Troy.”
He was chosen for the recurring part of “Van Montgomery,” a dimwitted but successful football player, in “The WB” comedy “Reba,” which he played for 125 episodes between 2001 and 2007.
The Reba McEntire song “Every Other Weekend” has a music video featuring Steve and his “Reba” co-star Joanna Garcia.
Steve starred in the 2005 action movie “Supercross” as the “MX” racer “KC Carlyle.” Additionally, he featured “Weatherby” in the martial arts action film “DOA: Dead or Alive” in 2006.
After that, he had roles in the TV movies “The Beast” and “Five Year Plan,” as well as the comedy “Twins” on “The WB.”
Steve appeared in the romantic dark comedy “Bride Wars” in 2009 as “Daniel Williams.” He was chosen to play Stan Helsing in the 2009 horror-comedy parody movie.
He played a low-achieving employee at a video rental shop. In the same year, Steve appeared in “Still Waiting” as “Agnew.”
In keeping with his TV attempts, Steve had an appearance in the ABC sitcom “Surviving Suburbia” and as “Ben Piller” for ten episodes in the NBC comedic web-drama “CTRL.”
In 2011, he acted as “Joel” alongside Leila Leigh in the romantic comedies “Conception,” “Something Borrowed,” and “Losing Control.” He also played “Terry” in “Something Borrowed.”
Steve started working on the ‘Showtime’ comedy-drama ‘Shameless’ in 2011. He was chosen to play ‘Kevin “Kev” Ball,’ a series regular who was dyslexic and eventually married ‘Veronica,’ who was represented by ‘Shanola Hampton.’ Steve presently still makes appearances on the program.
Steve appeared in three episodes of the sixth season of the “Sons of Anarchy” criminal drama on “FX” (playing “Hopper”).
He appeared as a guest actor in a 2013 episode of the Fox comedy “New Girl.” He played “Jax,” a professional football player, and Zooey Deschanel’s character “Jess.”
In the romantic comedy “Unleashed” from 2016, Justin Chatwin, a former “Shameless” actor, co-starred with Steve. The two were shown as dogs and cats who finally changed into people.
In three episodes of the first season of the CBS military drama “SEAL Team” in 2018, Steve appeared as “Danny Cooper,” a former member of “SEAL Team 4.” He most recently appeared in the action-comedy movie “Stuber” in 2019.