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Steven Bauer (born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson; December 2, 1956) is an American actor. Bauer began his career on PBS, portraying Joe Peña, the son of Cuban immigrants on ¿Qué Pasa, USA? (1977–1979). He played Manolo "Manny" Ribera, the right-hand man of Cuban drug lord Tony Montana, in the 1983 crime drama Scarface. He also played the drug cartel leader Don Eladio Vuente in Breaking Bad (2011) and in Better Call Saul (2017–2022) and the retired Mossad agent Avi Rudin in Ray Donovan (2013–2017). Early life and education Bauer was born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson, on December 2, 1956, in Havana, Cuba, the son of Lillian Samson Agostini, a schoolteacher, and Esteban Echevarría, a commercial pilot who worked for Cubana Airlines. Bauer's maternal grandfather, whose family names were Samson and Bauer, was Jewish, and immigrated to Cuba from Germany, a refugee looking to escape the devastating effects World War II and Adolf Hitler had on his safety and home country. Bauer's family emigrated from Cuba to the United States on Independence Day, 1960, when he was three years old, shortly after the end of the Cuban Revolution, settling in Miami, Florida. Once in the United States, he began using the name Steven, an English form of his given name, Esteban. He graduated from Miami Coral Park High School in 1974 and went on to study acting at Miami Dade Community College and then at the University of Miami, where he befriended Ray Liotta. Acting career Bauer's first substantial role was in the PBS bilingual sitcom ¿Qué Pasa, USA?, playing the teenage son of a Cuban exile family in Miami, from 1977 to 1979. He also appeared in the 1980 TV miniseries From Here to Eternity. He was credited in these and a few other early projects as Rocky Echevarría. In 1981, Bauer starred in the television movie She's in the Army Now, where he met his first wife, actress Melanie Griffith. They both moved to New York City and stayed at Ray Liotta's apartment, while Liotta moved to Los Angeles and stayed at theirs. Both Bauer and Griffith studied under acting teacher Stella Adler, and he appeared in several off-Broadway productions. During this time he adopted the stage name "Steven Bauer". Bauer was given the role of Manny Ribera (the part played by George Raft in the original 1932 version) in the 1983 movie Scarface, even though (like Raft) he was a relatively unknown actor at the time. The producers of Scarface were convinced that he was right for the role based on his strong audition, as well as his authentic Cuban background. His performance drew a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1986 he had two other important roles. The first was as Det. Frank Sigliano in the Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines cop comedy Running Scared. The second was as an Israeli soldier named Avner in the Canadian CTV television movie Sword of Gideon, which tells the story of Mossad agents hunting down terrorists in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich massacre. The Sword of Gideon script was the basis for Steven Spielberg's later film Munich, which follows the same storyline and borrows heavily from the Sword of Gideon story and script. In 1990 Bauer played the role of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in the television miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story alongside Benicio Del Toro and Craig T. Nelson. That same year, Bauer took over the series lead of the television show Wiseguy from Ken Wahl for the fourth and final season, playing U.S. Attorney Michael Santana after Wahl's character disappears. Since then, Bauer has made his career primarily, though not exclusively, in action films and crime dramas on both the big and small screens. An example of this is the movie The Lost City where he served in a minor role alongside the film's star and director Andy Garcia. Also, including such motion pictures as Primal Fear and Traffic. In 2007 he appeared on an episode of Burn Notice. In 2011, Bauer appeared on the series Breaking Bad playing Mexican drug lord Don Eladio. He stars with Julianne Michelle in the feature film Awakened, a supernatural thriller. More recently, Bauer appeared as ex-Mossad agent turned private investigator Avi in the Showtime series Ray Donovan. Bauer also reprised his Breaking Bad role in 2017 in AMC's prequel Better Call Saul. In addition, he played El Santo in the American version of Queen of the South. Personal life Bauer has married four times: first to Melanie Griffith, from 1981 until 1989; second to Ingrid Anderson, from 1989 until 1991; third to Christiana Boney, from 1992 until 2002; and fourth to Paulette Miltimore, from 2003 until 2012. He has two sons: Alexander Griffith Bauer (born August 22, 1985) with Griffith, and Dylan Dean Steven Bauer (born May 14, 1990) with Anderson. In 2010, Bauer was falsely named as the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed 24-year-old Brent Rosenberg of Malibu. Rosenberg was walking on Pacific Coast Highway toward his parked car on the east side of the road when he was struck by a sport utility vehicle. Initial reports said Bauer was the driver of the vehicle but police officials later said it was a different person of the same name involved in the fatality. Filmography Film Television Video games Music videos See also List of Cubans References External links Steven Bauer at IMDb Steven Bauer at AllMovie Steven Bauer's official MySpace profile. Discover the Alexander Bauer popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Alexander Bauer books.
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The Red Orchid Blooms
Alexander S. BauerAurora Morse is an isolated creature, a Nymph requiring sex for sustenance, living with little knowledge of who or what she is. She works as a whore in Newark to satisfy her cravin...
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Perception
Alexander S. BauerA nighttime visitor makes a college student wonder what types of communication are truly important.
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Skankarella
Alexander S. BauerMadison Roper is Skankarella, a shy purplehaired lesbian trapped under the oppressive thumb of her religious stepmother and whatever tortures her morally and cranially vacant steps...
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Just a Person
Alexander S. BauerA young boy meets someone that challenges their notions of gender and sex.
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A Conversation with Lucifer
Alexander BauerIn which I realize Hell is not what I expected, nor is its Master.
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Telluride
Alexander S. BauerThe harsh realities of growing up in a ski resort town, from the brutal winters to the loathsome tourists.
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Just to Live
Alexander S. BauerWhat if there was a story with a transgender main character that didn't make transitioning or bigotry the sole focus? Being black and trans, there's no small amount of bigotry that...
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Lies that Young Minds Tell
Alexander S. BauerTo be young and in love is to be a liar, willfully, blissfully ignorant, or both.
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Promise Ring
Alexander S. BauerWhen a college student's rejected proposal turns a relationship into ashes, an obnoxious girl helps him rise again.
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Arnett Tanner Wants to Die
Alexander S. BauerMedical and data storage technology have advanced to the point where people's consciousnesses can be downloaded and reintegrated into a new body after physical death, thus making i...
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The Chosen
Alexander S. BauerThere are legends of how the creators laid the seeds for the three races. The Vampires were said to have no aversion to sunlight. They were able to gain vitality through the blood ...
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Mount Marcy
Alexander S. BauerA journey of love and solitude up Mount Marcy in New York State's Adirondack Mountains.
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Many Little Deaths
Alexander S. BauerWhen longtime best friends Quin and Ro finally start dating, Quin starts to die. Over and over and over.
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Soulmate
Alexander BauerA series of manufactured 'chance' encounters leads to an interesting relationship between two college students.
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The Void
Alexander S. BauerThe Void is a dream world shared in the slumbers of thousands of victims of abuse. It is the haven in which their minds have allowed them to seek refuge from the indefatigable horr...
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Shenandoah
Alexander S. BauerIn the Shenandoah National Park nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, a teenage boy and girl find companionship for the first time.
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Hobo
Alexander BauerA short fictional account of a rescued kitten based, in bits and pieces, on the stories of the eleven cats my family and I have rescued that were dumped outside our rural home over...
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Feministed
Alexander S. BauerJuliet Timmons, president of the Society of Women Engineers at a male dominated university, must confront a series of escalating sexual assaults on campus while struggling to defin...
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Kissing Ellen King
Alexander S. BauerFifteen year old Ellen King and twenty year old Jack Chandler have shared a special bond since childhood. When their relationship matures and rumors start to swirl, Jack is accused...
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Transitions
Alexander S. BauerThe short story of a man born in a woman's body, and the community that doesn't understand. Not for the sexually prude, nor the faint of heart.
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Wings
Alexander S. BauerVivid dreams and an odd nighttime visitor make a man question his purpose in the world.
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Rescue Dog
Alexander BauerThe life and times of my dog, Honey. From her perspective. Based on a true story.
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Oak
Alexander S. BauerThe oak tree that dominates the Marshville Town Cemetery has a nasty habit of getting its roots into coffins and wrenching the corpses out of the earth.
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The New Dog
Alexander S. BauerHoney and Vanek welcome a new dog, Gerbe, into the house. Written from Honey's and Gerbe's points of view and based on their real life adventures. With pictures!