Steven Bauer has been at this acting gig for quite a while now, and he’s damn good at it. So it’s good to see this season Latino professional in the company of high-end equals like Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight in the new Showtime series about a notorious Hollywood “fixer”–the guy who fixes “the major screw-ups of the rich and famous in Los Angeles.”
Steven Bauer in Raising Cain
Born Esteban Ernesto Echevarria in Havana, Cuba a fair number of years ago, his dark good looks have helped him land a wide range of roles–Latino and non-Latino–over the last three decades or more. He started with work on classics like The Rockford Files and Hill Street Blues when he was still in his twenties. He was barely past thirty when he broke through in Scarface thirty years ago. Since then he’s been working steadily on TV and in films, rom sci-fi action pics to small independent films. Most recently we’ve seen him in episodes of The Mentalist and Breaking Bad and on the big screen in Counterpunch. He’s even got half a dozen features in post-production right now, on top of Ray Donovan, that will premiere later this month and has already garnered some very strong reviews.
If you want to catch some of his best work, DVR Primal Fear with Bauer and Richard Gere, at 9A on Wednesday, June 19 on Cinemax (MAX. And if you’re a Netflix subscriber, you can have a whole Steven Bauer weekend, with many of his films available to Watch Instantly, from the great (Traffic, A Darker Truth, Counterpunch) to the goofy (Mutants, and Werewolf: The Beast Among Us).
Ray Donovan premieres Sunday, June 30 on Showtime.
