As Manny Ribera in the 1983 picture “Scarface,” Don Eladio in the AMC drama series “Breaking Bad,” Avi in “Ray Donovan,” and Joe Pea in the multilingual PBS program “Qué Pasa, USA?,” actor Steven Bauer is of Cuban-American background. He was born in Havana and emigrated to the United States when he was three years old.
In 1977, Bauer made his acting debut in the television program “Qué Pasa, USA?” He made his big-screen debut six years later, in the 1983 romantic comedy “Valley Girl.”
That same year, he landed his signature part in “Scarface” as Manny Ribera. In the ensuing years, Bauer has become one of the most public character performers in the business. In the following decades, Bauer has become one of the most famous character performers in the business.
Over the course of his career, he has won several honors, including the 2000 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for the movie “Traffic.”
Steven Bauer’s Date of Birth and Parents
On December 2, 1956, in Havana, Cuba, Esteban Ernesto Echevarria Samson was born. He was the son of Lillian Samson Agostini and Esteban Echevarra. His mother taught at a public school, while his father was a pilot.
After the Fidel Castro and Che Guevara-led Revolution of 1960, Bauer and his family emigrated to the United States and lived in Miami, Florida.
Steven Bauer’s Education
His high school was Miami Coral Park. His first long-term career goal was to be a musician, but acting eventually became his love. He temporarily attended Miami-Dade Community College before enrolling at the University of Miami to pursue a theatrical arts degree.
Steven Bauer’s Wife
Steven Bauer has had four marriages. He was married to Melanie Griffith from 1981 to 1989. Alexander is their son together (born in 1985). His youngest son, Dylan, was born in 1990 after he wed actress Ingrid Anderson, his second wife, in 1989.
He married Christiana Boney in 1992 after the divorce of Bauer and Anderson in 1991. That union lasted until 2002. He married Paulette Miltimore, his fourth wife, in 2003. In 2012, they got divorced.
Steven Bauer’s Career
Steven Bauer began his career mostly in the multilingual PBS program “Qué Pasa, USA?” in 1977, playing the role of Joe Pea.
After that, he made a number of brief appearances in programs including “The Rockford Files” (1978), “From Here to Eternity” (1980), and “One Day at a Time” (1981).
During this time, he was cast in a number of TV movies, including “She’s in the Army Now” (1981) and “An Innocent Love” (1982).
Bauer made his big-screen debut in the romantic comedy “Valley Girl” in an uncredited part (1983). In the police comedy “Running Scared” from 1986, he appeared with Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal.
He also played an Israeli soldier in the Canadian CTV television film “Sword of Gideon” the same year.
He co-starred alongside Benicio Del Toro and Craig T. Nelson in the 1990 television miniseries “Drug Wars: The Camarena Story,” in which he played Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent.
For his performance, he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TV.
In the last season of the CBS crime thriller “Wiseguy,” he took over Ken Wahl’s role as the show’s star and played US Attorney Michael Santana. Bauer has mostly chosen to take parts in action movies and crime dramas in the years afterward.
His roles as Joey Pinero in “Primal Fear” (1996), Carlos Ayala in “Traffic” (2000), Vito Genovese in “Boss of Bosses” (2001), Senator Edmonds in “Enemies Among Us” (2010), and P.O. Ramirez in “Once Upon a Time in Queens” are among of his most memorable performances from the 1990s and 2000s (2013).
He provided the voice of the drug dealer The Sandman in the 2006 video game spin-off “Scarface: The World Is Yours.” In the third season of “Better Call Saul” and the fourth season of “Breaking Bad,” he plays the recurring character Don Eladio Vuente.
In the 2013 television season of Ray Donovan, a crime thriller on Showtime, Bauer was cast as “Avi,” a former Mossad agent who is now a private eye.
He will play the lead in a number of future films, including the comedies “Deported” and “A Day Like a Week,” as well as the short film “The Circle of Addiction: A Different Kind of Tears.”
In the 1983 crime thriller “Scarface,” a remake of the 1932 film of the same name, Steven Bauer was cast as Manny Ribera. In the first film, George Raft played the part of him.
In 1984, Bauer was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture after receiving favorable reviews from the public.