Steve Howey (actor)
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Steven Michael Robert "Steve" Howey (born July 12, 1977) is an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Van Montgomery in the television series Reba
. His roles also include the films Supercross
, DOA: Dead or Alive
, and Bride Wars
. He is currently starring in the Showtime series Shameless, portraying the role of Kevin "Kev" Ball.
in Sterling
, Colorado. However, during his second year, he started to lose interest in basketball and started focusing on drama, joining his father's acting class.
(1994) and The Drew Carey Show
(1995). He also starred in and produced the independent film Class (1998), which was written and directed by his father and was accepted into the Denver International Film Festival.
In 2001, Howey got his first series starring role when he was cast as Van Montgomery in the show Reba
. Howey stayed with the show until it was canceled in 2007. He also appeared in Reba McEntire
's music video
Every Other Weekend, with his Reba co-star Joanna Garcia
.
In 2005, he starred in the action film Supercross
as K.C. Carlyle, an MX racer. Howey also played Weatherby in the movie DOA: Dead or Alive
, alongside Jamie Pressly and Eric Roberts
. In 2009, he starred in Bride Wars
, with Anne Hathaway
and Kate Hudson
(with whom he also starred in the 2011 movie Something Borrowed
, once again as her love interest). Howey also starred as the titular character in the 2009 film, Stan Helsing
. That same year, Howey also appeared in the web series CTRL
playing Ben Piller. He has also appeared on the show Psych
.
Howey has been working on the TV series Shameless. In April 2010, it was announced that Showtime had picked up 12 episodes of the show. Howey stars as Kevin, alongside William H. Macy
and Emmy Rossum
. The show began airing on January 9, 2011.
. The two became engaged in June 2007, while vacationing in Hawaii and married on February 7, 2009, in Las Vegas
. On July 8, 2009, they had their first child, William Wolf Howey. Shahi gave birth during an at-home water birth.
Shahi has worked with Howey's father. She mentioned that Howey is of Scottish descent on an episode of The Late Late Show
.
He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Reba (TV series)
Reba is an American sitcom starring Reba McEntire, which ran from 2001 to 2007. For the show's first five seasons, it ran on The WB, with the show transitioning to The CW in its last year.-Synopsis:...
. His roles also include the films Supercross
Supercross (film)
Supercross is a 2005 American action film directed by Steve Boyum and starring Steve Howey and Mike Vogel. The movie is a mixture of youthful relationships set in the intense world of professional Supercross.-Plot synopsis:...
, DOA: Dead or Alive
DOA: Dead or Alive
DOA: Dead or Alive is a 2006 ensemble martial arts film loosely based on the Tecmo/Team Ninja fighting game series of the same name. Directed by Corey Yuen and written by J. F. Lawton, Adam and Seth Gross....
, and Bride Wars
Bride Wars
Bride Wars is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Gary Winick and written by Greg DePaul, June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson....
. He is currently starring in the Showtime series Shameless, portraying the role of Kevin "Kev" Ball.
Early life
Howey was born in San Antonio, Texas, to director Bill Howey and Carla. He has two older siblings: Bret and Tammy. Although they moved a lot during his childhood, Howey's parents settled in Los Angeles, where he attended junior high and most of high school. After moving to Denver to complete his senior year, he earned a basketball scholarship to Northeastern Junior CollegeNortheastern Junior College
Northeastern Community College is a two-year junior college located in Sterling, Colorado, in the United States. It is a member college of the Colorado Community College System.-Academics:...
in Sterling
Sterling, Colorado
The City of Sterling is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Logan County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 14,777 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Sterling is located at...
, Colorado. However, during his second year, he started to lose interest in basketball and started focusing on drama, joining his father's acting class.
Career
Howey has guest-starred on various TV shows including ERER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
(1994) and The Drew Carey Show
The Drew Carey Show
The Drew Carey Show is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004. The show was set in Cleveland, Ohio, and revolved around the retail office and home life of "everyman" Drew Carey, a fictionalized version of the actor....
(1995). He also starred in and produced the independent film Class (1998), which was written and directed by his father and was accepted into the Denver International Film Festival.
In 2001, Howey got his first series starring role when he was cast as Van Montgomery in the show Reba
Reba (TV series)
Reba is an American sitcom starring Reba McEntire, which ran from 2001 to 2007. For the show's first five seasons, it ran on The WB, with the show transitioning to The CW in its last year.-Synopsis:...
. Howey stayed with the show until it was canceled in 2007. He also appeared in Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma...
's music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
Every Other Weekend, with his Reba co-star Joanna Garcia
Joanna García
Joanna Leanna García is an American television and film actress. She is known for her portrayal of Cheyenne Hart Montgomery on The CW sitcom Reba...
.
In 2005, he starred in the action film Supercross
Supercross
Supercross is a motorcycle racing sport involving off-road motorcycles on an artificially-made dirt tracks consisting of steep jumps and obstacles. Professional supercross contest races are held almost exclusively within professional baseball and football stadiums.-History:Supercross was derived...
as K.C. Carlyle, an MX racer. Howey also played Weatherby in the movie DOA: Dead or Alive
DOA: Dead or Alive
DOA: Dead or Alive is a 2006 ensemble martial arts film loosely based on the Tecmo/Team Ninja fighting game series of the same name. Directed by Corey Yuen and written by J. F. Lawton, Adam and Seth Gross....
, alongside Jamie Pressly and Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts
Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies , earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. He starred as the protagonist in the 1980 dramatisation of Willa Cather's 1905 short story, Paul's Case...
. In 2009, he starred in Bride Wars
Bride Wars
Bride Wars is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Gary Winick and written by Greg DePaul, June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson....
, with Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway (actress)
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. After several stage roles, she appeared in the 1999 television series Get Real. She played Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries...
and Kate Hudson
Kate Hudson
Kate Garry Hudson is an American actress. She came to prominence in 2001 after winning a Golden Globe and receiving several nominations, including a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Almost Famous. She then starred in the hit film How to Lose a Guy in 10...
(with whom he also starred in the 2011 movie Something Borrowed
Something Borrowed (film)
Something Borrowed is a 2011 American romantic comedy film based on Emily Giffin's book of the same name, directed by Luke Greenfield, starring Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield, and John Krasinski....
, once again as her love interest). Howey also starred as the titular character in the 2009 film, Stan Helsing
Stan Helsing
Stan Helsing is a 2009 parody film, known in some parts of Asia as Scary Movie 5. Not unlike past movies, such as Scary Movie, it directs parodies at horror films...
. That same year, Howey also appeared in the web series CTRL
Ctrl (web series)
Ctrl is an American comedy web series of NBC. It is the first stand-alone web series launched by a major television network. The series stars Tony Hale as a typical office-working, self-confidence lacking nerd who discovers he can undo things in real life.It is an adaptation and expansion of the...
playing Ben Piller. He has also appeared on the show Psych
Psych
Psych is an American detective comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks and broadcast on USA Network. It stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department whose "heightened observational skills" and impressive detective instincts...
.
Howey has been working on the TV series Shameless. In April 2010, it was announced that Showtime had picked up 12 episodes of the show. Howey stars as Kevin, alongside William H. Macy
William H. Macy
William Hall Macy, Jr. is an American actor and writer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo. He is also a teacher and director in theater, film and television. His film career has been built mostly on his appearances in small, independent films, though...
and Emmy Rossum
Emmy Rossum
Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She first starred in a string of movies including Songcatcher , An American Rhapsody, and Passionada . However, it was her role in Mystic River that garnered her wider recognition...
. The show began airing on January 9, 2011.
Personal life
Howey is married to actress Sarah ShahiSarah Shahi
Aahoo Jahansouz "Sarah" Shahi is an American actress and a former NFL Cheerleader. She is probably best known for starring in The L Word as Carmen de la Pica Morales and in Life as Detective Dani Reese...
. The two became engaged in June 2007, while vacationing in Hawaii and married on February 7, 2009, in Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
. On July 8, 2009, they had their first child, William Wolf Howey. Shahi gave birth during an at-home water birth.
Shahi has worked with Howey's father. She mentioned that Howey is of Scottish descent on an episode of The Late Late Show
The Late Late Show (CBS TV series)
The Late Late Show is an American late-night television talk and variety show on CBS hosted by Craig Ferguson since 2005. It immediately follows Late Show with David Letterman and is produced by Letterman's Worldwide Pants Incorporated...
.
He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Class | Jim | |
| 1999 | Pacific Blue Pacific Blue (TV series) Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa Monica Police Department who patrolled its beaches on bicycles. The show ran for five seasons on the USA Network, from March 2, 1996 to April 9, 2000, with a total of one hundred and one episodes... |
Episode: "Silicon Valley of the Dolls" | |
| 2000 | Get Real Get Real (TV series) Get Real is a short-lived comedy-drama on the FOX Network centering on the fictional Green family of San Francisco. It ran from September 1999 to April 2000... |
Chris DeFalco | Episode: "Falling from Grace" |
| 2000 | ER ER (TV series) ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television... |
Quarterback Elizey | Episode: "Homecoming" |
| 2000 | The Drew Carey Show The Drew Carey Show The Drew Carey Show is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004. The show was set in Cleveland, Ohio, and revolved around the retail office and home life of "everyman" Drew Carey, a fictionalized version of the actor.... |
Student | Episode: "Be Drew to Your School" |
| 2001 | Any Day Now | Troy | Episode: "Everyone Deserves to Be Loved" |
| 2001–2007 | Reba Reba (TV series) Reba is an American sitcom starring Reba McEntire, which ran from 2001 to 2007. For the show's first five seasons, it ran on The WB, with the show transitioning to The CW in its last year.-Synopsis:... |
Van Montgomery | 125 episodes |
| 2005 | Supercross Supercross (film) Supercross is a 2005 American action film directed by Steve Boyum and starring Steve Howey and Mike Vogel. The movie is a mixture of youthful relationships set in the intense world of professional Supercross.-Plot synopsis:... |
K.C. Carlyle | |
| 2006 | Twins Twins (TV series) Twins is an American situation comedy series that first aired on The WB in the United States and on CTV in Canada in September 2005. The series is produced by KoMut Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television... |
Zack | Episode: "Blast from the Past" |
| 2006 | DOA: Dead or Alive DOA: Dead or Alive DOA: Dead or Alive is a 2006 ensemble martial arts film loosely based on the Tecmo/Team Ninja fighting game series of the same name. Directed by Corey Yuen and written by J. F. Lawton, Adam and Seth Gross.... |
Weatherby | |
| 2007 | The Beast The Beast - Fictional character :* The Beast is the imagined monster in William Golding's Lord of the Flies* The Beast , a fictional demon in the TV series Angel* Beast , a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe... |
Ty Troop | |
| 2009 | Bride Wars Bride Wars Bride Wars is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Gary Winick and written by Greg DePaul, June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson.... |
Daniel Williams | |
| 2009 | Still Waiting... Still Waiting... Still Waiting... is an American independent film starring John Michael Higgins, and Luis Guzman, and the sequel to Waiting.... Some of the cast of the original film appear in the sequel. Adam Carolla and Justin Long appear in cameo roles... |
Agnew | |
| 2009 | Surviving Suburbia Surviving Suburbia Surviving Suburbia is an American sitcom starring Bob Saget and Cynthia Stevenson that premiered on April 6, 2009 at 9:30PM Eastern/8:30PM Central on ABC. Surviving Suburbia aired its final episode at 8:30PM Eastern/7:30PM Central on August 7, 2009... |
Brock | Episode: "Three End Tables" |
| 2009 | Ctrl Ctrl (web series) Ctrl is an American comedy web series of NBC. It is the first stand-alone web series launched by a major television network. The series stars Tony Hale as a typical office-working, self-confidence lacking nerd who discovers he can undo things in real life.It is an adaptation and expansion of the... |
Ben Piller | 10 episodes |
| 2009 | State of Romance | Mike | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2009 | Stan Helsing Stan Helsing Stan Helsing is a 2009 parody film, known in some parts of Asia as Scary Movie 5. Not unlike past movies, such as Scary Movie, it directs parodies at horror films... |
Stan | |
| 2010 | Psych Psych Psych is an American detective comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks and broadcast on USA Network. It stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department whose "heightened observational skills" and impressive detective instincts... |
Derek Walker | Episode: "Thrill Seekers and Hell Raisers" |
| 2010 | Losing Control Losing Control Losing Control is a 2011 romantic comedy film directed by Valerie Weiss about a female scientist who wants proof that her boyfriend is "the one".- Cast :* Miranda Kent as Samantha* Reid Scott as Ben* Kathleen Robertson as Leslie... |
Terry | |
| 2010 | Conception | Joel | |
| 2011-ongoing | Shameless | Kevin "Kev" Ball | |
| 2011 | Something Borrowed Something Borrowed (film) Something Borrowed is a 2011 American romantic comedy film based on Emily Giffin's book of the same name, directed by Luke Greenfield, starring Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield, and John Krasinski.... |
Marcus |