- English actor, writer and director
- Birth name was Leslie Steven berks
- Born on 3 august 1937 in Stepney, London
- Other plays apart from Metamorphosis include Barrow in Furness, In the Penal Colony and the Trial
- All plays are complex physocoligically and nightmarish
- Plays are often described as violent, show unpleasant emotions and are also quite filthy
- Was described as one of the major minory dramatists in Britain
- Was married to a woman named Shelley lee but got divorced and is now living with Clara Fisher in East London
- Wrote plays and then acted in them due to getting roles form auditions elsewhere
- Has made more than 80 films and television roles
- Has jewish Russian ancestry and his Grandparents from Russia to Britain in the 1890s
- His father was Abraham, a tailor, his mother was Pauline and he has a siter, Beryl
- He was evacuated during world war two to Luton
- At the Edinbrigh Fringe festival, he is the most peformed playwright after Shakespeare
- Berkoff has a daughter with whom he is not in contact with
- He desribes his personality as a child as 'a shy, withdrawn daydreamer who took pleasure in my isolation.'
- Produced metaphorphosis in London in 1968
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Steven Berkoff
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