Rob Steinberg - Episode 520

What this episode covers

Steve Cooper talks with actor Rob Steinberg. Rob got his breakthrough role in Die Hard 2 as the assistant to Bill Atherton's obnoxious TV reporter on the airplane. Then he booked a Matlock guest star and a national Scrabble commercial and he hasn't looked back.  In the Oscar winning film, 12 Years a Slave, he played Mr. Parker, the guy who saves the slaves. Out this year he will appear in LBJ starring Woody Harrelson and the soon-to-be-blockbuster, Peter Berg's Deepwater Horizon starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez and Kate Hudson and is also in Adam Rifkin's Director's Cut starring Missy Pyle and Penn Jillette and will play a Mafia Boss in Extraction starring Bruce Willis. He has appeared in CBS's Zoo and had recurring roles on Lifetime's Army Wives and Drop Dead Diva, CBS's soaps Y & R and The Bold and the Beautiful and HBO's Treme and has guest starred in many other TV series. Over his career he has appeared in nearly 35 films including Unlawful Entry, Single White Female, The Starving Game, Grace Unplugged, Ricochet and more recently Lay the Favorite, Hijacked and Zombie Hamlet.

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