Steve Guttenberg

Steven Robert Guttenberg (born August 24, 1958)[citation needed] is an American actor, author, businessman, producer, and director. He is known for his lead roles in Hollywood films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Cocoon, Police Academy, Three Men and a Baby, Diner, The Bedroom Window, Three Men and a Little Lady, The Big Green, and Short Circuit.

Guttenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York,[1] the only son, along with his two sisters, of Ann Iris (née Newman), a surgical assistant, and Jerome Stanley Guttenberg, an electrical engineer.[citation needed] He had a Jewish upbringing[2] in the Flushing neighborhood of the borough of Queens[1] before his family moved to North Massapequa, New York, where he graduated from Plainedge High School in 1976.[3][4][5] During high school, he attended a summer program at the Juilliard School where he studied under John Houseman, and he won a role in an off-Broadway production of The Lion in Winter