Steve Zan is an American actor. In the track record of a native of the city of Marshall - 93 roles in cinema and on television. He has been working in the field of cinema since 1991. He played his first role in the television project First Love, Fatal Love. In 2018, appeared in the series Ferry and the movie Blaze.
Films and roles
The most famous projects with Steve Zahn are the full-length films "Captain Fantastic" and "Letter to You." As well as the series "American Family" and "Friends", in which the actor is invited to play Duncan.
The filmography of Steve Zahn consists of paintings of the following genres:
- Biography: "Saving Dawn," "Strong Woman," "Blaze."
- Western: Comanche Moon, Ridiculous Six, Bandits.
- Detective: "Perfect Escape", "Phantom Express", "Defective Detective."
- Drama: Speak, Saving Dawn, Planet of the Apes: War, Out of Sight. Hero of the Month, Rely on Pete.
- Comedy: "Good Dinosaur", "Forces of Nature", "Sugar", Shine to Shine, "Wimp Diary", "Fools", "Stuart Little" (voice acting).
- Crime: Bear Cubs, Wild Beach, City of Happiness, Texas.
- Adventures: "Bigfoot", "Chasing the Sun", "Chicken Chicken" (voice acting).
- Action: "Cool Ninja", "National Security."
- Military: "The Crimson Tide."
- Documentary: "HBO: First Look".
- History: "Stephen Glass Scam."
- Melodrama: "Revived Canvases", "Hamlet", "Love Management", "Forces of Nature".
Links, roles, awards
Steve Zan has worked with such famous actors as Matthew McConaughey, Tom Hanks, Viggo Mortensen, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Liv Tyler, Martin Lawrence, Denzel Washington and others.
The actor was invited to the projects of directors Nora Efron, Penny Marshall, Peter Son, John Dahl, David Thuy, Billy Ray, Joaquin Ronning and others.
He played the main characters in the films "Bigfoot", "Love Management", "Crossing", "Sahara", "National Security", "Bitch", "Fools", "Bear Bears" and others.
In 2014 and 2017, Steve Zahn, whose films are presented above, along with other actors in the films "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Captain Fantastic" fought for the awards of the Guild of Actors in the category "Best Cast". In 1999, he received a special jury prize at the Sundance Independent Film Festival.
Biography
Steve Zahn was born November 13, 1967 in the United States, in the city of Marshall, located in Minnesota, in the family of a pastor and volunteer. The actor’s mother has German roots, his father - German and Swedish. As a child, Steve spent some time in the city of Mankato, where he attended Kennedy School. He later went to Minneapolis to attend high school.
In those years, the boy dreamed of becoming an American marine. But after visiting the musical Les Miserables, Steve Zan realized that he wanted to be an actor. In 1987, the creators of the production of Biloxi Blues invited him to play it after he convinced them that he represented one of the American theater communities, although this was not true.
Personal life of Steve Zahn
In 1991, the actor met theater artist Robin Petrman during a tour in which they took part together. Three years later, the young people got married. The family of the actor has two children. Steve Zan and his family live in rural Kentucky. Here Steve grows gardens, breeds horses and sheep. Occasionally participates in productions of the local theater, which he himself organized. Together with the children, he goes to a lake located nearby to go fishing or relax.
Steve Zahn is interested in military history. He still regrets that he once refused due to circumstances to star in the military drama of the mini-series Brothers in Arms, based on the documentary of writer Stephen Ambrose.
In 2007, Steve Zan became an Honorary Doctor of Philology.
Big projects
In 1998, the actor played one of the key characters in the comedy melodrama "You Letter", directed by the famous director and screenwriter Nora Efron. In the center of the film is Kathleen, the owner of a tiny bookstore, and the owner of bookstores Joe. Heroes conduct romantic correspondence on the Internet, not even suspecting that the business project of one of them can cause the complete ruin of the other.
In the crime comedy Bear Bears, actor Steve Zahn became part-time partner to Sam Rockwell. In this picture, the life of two deprived talented singers will change dramatically after they have an unplanned meeting with the leader of the mafia, who mistakenly mistook them for professional safe crackers.