Episode 22. Steve Valentine - Actor, magician, writer, teacher, producer. A true renaissance man.

The magic of...podcast with Paul Roffman

MAGICONTHEGO.COMBorn in Scotland, raised near London, Steve has been performing since age 5. That was the year he started THEATRE and DANCE training and took a passionate, lifelong interest in MAGIC. His first job was playing the child Prince in ‘THE KING AND I’. From those humble beginnings, Steve has appeared in over: 250 HOURS OF TELEVISION, A DOZEN MOVIES, COUNTLESS COMMERCIALS, TWO MULTI AWARD WINNING VIDEO GAMES, and starred in FOUR TV SERIES: CROSSING JORDAN for NBC, as Criminologist ‘Nigel Townsend’ , NIKKI for the WB, as choreographer ‘Martine’. I’M IN THE BAND for Disney, as 80‘s rock legend ‘Derek Jupiter’. ESTATE OF PANIC for SYFY. (nominated for a Rose D’or) Steve has carved out a unique place for himself in show business, constantly changing and morphing into a myriad of wild, quirky, funny, dangerous and always unique characters.One thing’s for sure, you never get the same person twice, from rock stars to serial killers, to drag queens to criminologists, to Victorian singing and dancing mustache twirling villains to knights in shining armor. And its Steve’s morphic skill in character and voice that has kept him so much in demand in the highly competitive world of TV and Film. Recently Steve made a big splash as Bronx based ‘Barry Greenhouse’ in the Robert Zemeckis movie THE WALK, and the serial killer (spoiler alert) in the feature MIDNIGHT MAN, the Egyptian Priest Aye in Mr. Peabody and Sherman, and also killing in NBC’s One Big Happy, Mom, Big Bang Theory, CSI, Supernatural, Psych, Beauty and the Beast, Hot In Cleveland and the deliciously evil Les Camembert in Disney’s massive hit Teen Beach Movie, in addition to voices on Mickey and the Roadster Racers, Turbo Fast, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Tinkerbell, Sofia The First, UnCharted and Bioware’s DRAGON AGE series, earning a massive international fanbase for his acclaimed performance of Alistair. All that, while recurring on many different TV shows such as: MOM, Ghostwriter Major Crimes, Mike and Molly, Blunt Talk, and Anger Management. STEVEVALENTINE.COM STEVEVALENTINELIVE.COM. MAGICONTHEGO.COM

MAGIC: Steve is highly sought after and highly respected for his work on and off stage as a world class magician. A multi-award winner at the world famous Magic Castle in Hollywood: MAGIC CASTLE TWO TIME CLOSE UP MAGICIAN OF THE YEAR, TWO TIME LECTURER OF THE YEAR, RECENTLY VOTED THE STAGE MAGICIAN OF THE YEAR! Steve has literally toured the world performing his brand of high energy mind-blowing magic, headlined in Las Vegas and has created original magical pieces for himself and other professional magicians, including a mind bending 22 hour video course on his favorite trick, called C2P. In 2019 Steve lead a three month National Tour with The Illusionists, the most successful touring Magic show of all time, and plans to helm the Now You See Me - Live tour sometime in 2021.

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