Who is Steve Howey?

Steven Michael Robert ‘Steve’ Howey was born under the zodiac sign of Cancer on 12 July 1977, in San Antonio, Texas USA; he holds American nationality and his ethnicity is of Scottish descent. He’s an actor with nearly 50 credits to his name, perhaps known best for his role as Kevin Ball in the series “Shameless” which had 69 award nominations and won 16, including four Primetime Emmys.

Early life and education

Steve was raised alongside his two brothers Tammy and Bret, by their parents Carla Novinger and Bill Howey, who was an acting teacher; the family lived on boats for a couple of years, before they settled in the suburbia of Los Angeles, California.

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Steve attended a local high school, but in his senior year transferred to Denver High School where he earned a basketball scholarship, and upon matriculating in 1995, he enrolled at a college in Colorado. However, after his second year he left college, and launched his acting career, joining his father’s acting classes.

Roles in series

After making his debut on television in 1999, portraying Mark Kerwin in an episode of the series “Pacific Blue”, Steve made appearances in “Totally Tooned In”, “Get Real”, “ER”, and “The Drew Carey Show” among others, before he was cast to play Van Montgomery in “Reba” starring alongside Reba McEntire and JoAnna Garcia Swisher in this comedy drama, which had 14 award nominations, including two for Primetime Emmys, and won three.

In the following years, he made an appearance in the series “Surviving Suburbia”, and then he was cast to play Ben Piller in “Ctrl” starring alongside Tony Hale and Emy Coligado, followed by roles in “New Girl”, “State of Romance”, “Sons of Anarchy”, and “Where’s This Party” among others, while he starred in “Shameless”.

Steve portrayed Danny Cooper in “SEAL Team” which had three award nominations, including two for Primetime Emmys, followed by his voice role as Trooper Norris in the podcast series “Carrier”. His most recent role on television was in a spin-off from “Shameless”, entitled “Shameless Hall of Shame”, in 2021.

Roles in movies

Steve made his acting debut on the big screen portraying Jim in the 1998 movie “Class”, which was directed by his father Bill Howey. After that, he was cast to play K. C. Carlyle in “Supercross” starring alongside Sophia Bush and Mike Vogel, followed by his role as Weatherby in “DOA: Dead or Alive”.

In the following years, he made appearances in several TV movies, before in 2009 portraying Daniel in “Bride Wars”, acting alongside Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson and Candice Bergen in this romantic comedy directed by Gary Winick. In the same year, he starred in “Stan Helsing” a comedy fantasy horror written and directed by Bo Zenga, followed by his support roles in movies such as “Losing Control”, “Something Borrowed”, and “Conception” among others.

In the 2015 movie “See You in Valhalla”, Steve starred alongside Bret Harrison and Sarah Hyland, followed by his role as Sam in “Unleashed”, and as John Kelly in “Making Babies”, a comedy drama written and directed by Josh F. Huber.

His most recent roles have been in “Game Over, Man!”, “Stuber”, and “Day Shift” starring Jamie Foxx, Meagan Good, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo, which is in post-production and should be released in 2022.

Love life and relationships

There were various rumors concerning Steve’s love life, however, it is widely known about his marriage with actress and model Sarah Shahi, who is perhaps known best for her role as Carmen in the series “The L Word”.

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In June 2007, while they were on vacation in Hawaii, Steve proposed to her, and they announced their engagement; they married on 7 February 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sarah gave birth to their first son William, in June 2009, and in March 2015, they welcomed their twins, Violet and Knox.

It seemed that the two are enjoying their love and raising children, however, in May 2020 they filed for divorce, which was finalized in January 2021. According to court sources, they share joint custody of their children.

As of December 2021, it is assumed that Steve is single, or he prefers to keep his love life away from media attention; he’s been married once, and has three children.

Weight loss

Fans of the series “Shameless” noticed that Steve was overweight – he was saying that the reason was compressed vertebrae, which was painful and it was hard for him to even walk. However, Steve discovered other reasons – laziness, alcohol, stress, and fast food.

When he realized that his weight is affecting his life, he motivated himself to start working out, and to make big changes in his diet. He talked about his weight loss for the “Distractify” saying: ‘When I don’t feel like working out, lifting weights, or doing serious cardio, the best thing for me to do is just go on the treadmill and walk. I walk and listen to music and 10 minutes will go by, then 15, and then I’ll speed up a bit. Once my blood really starts flowing, I’ll get a second wind, and then I want to work out.

The best way to get yourself to want to work out is to just get a sweat going and the blood circulating.’

Talking about his diet, he started eating more vegetables, and using the Blood Type Diet application, which tells him what kind of food is good for him – he doesn’t drink coffee nor any alcohol drinks, just water and fresh juices.

Hobbies and other interests

One of Steve’s favorite things to do is working out, he has training sessions daily, works out at the gym for two to three hours, goes running and hiking, and also likes to swim.

In his spare time, he likes to read – his favorite book is “Nineteen Eighty-Four” written by George Orwell; he also enjoys watching movies, particularly starring his favorite actor William H. Macy, and one of his favorites is “Fargo”.

He is into traveling, and he often travels with his children – they’ve visited a couple of US states, but most enjoyed Disneyland in Los Angeles, California.

Age, height, and net worth

Steve is 44 years old, he has short, light brown hair and hazel eyes; he weighs around 175lbs (80kgs) and is 6ft 3ins (1.9m) tall.

As of December 2021, his net worth has been estimated at $2 million – according to sources he made around $100,000 per episode of the series “Shameless”.

Who is Ethan Cutkosky?

Ethan was born under the zodiac sign of Leo on 19 August 1999, in Campton Hills, Illinois USA; he holds American nationality, and his ethnicity is of mixed White and Mexican descent. He’s an actor with 10 credits to his name, perhaps known best for his role as Carl Gallagher in the series “Shameless”; he starred alongside Emmy Rossum and William H. Macy in this comedy drama about a dysfunctional, poor Gallagher family, an alcoholic father and five siblings who can’t stay away from trouble. The series was broadcast from 2011 until 2021, and for now, it is the longest-running original scripted series in Showtime production.

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Early life and education

Ethan was raised an only child in Campton Hills by his parents David and Yvonne; his father is a computer software engineer, and his mother is a teacher, of Mexican descent.

Ethan attended Saint Charles East High School, and upon matriculating in 2017, he didn’t enroll at college but pursued his career as an entrepreneur, launching his clothing brand ‘Khaotic Collective’.

Roles in series

When Ethan was twelve years old, he was cast to play Carl Gallagher, the biggest troublemaker in the series “Shameless”, which had 69 award nominations and won 16, including four Primetime Emmys; the series was created by Paul Abbot and John Wells.

In the following years, he made his appearance as Young Tommy in an episode of “Power”, a crime drama starring Omari Hardwick, Naturi Naughton, and Lela Loren, followed by his recurring role as Henry Mesner in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”, a popular mystery crime drama created by Dick Wolf, which had 167 award nominations, and won 56, including six Primetime Emmys.

Ethan’s most recent role was in “Shameless Hall of Shame”, reprising his role as Carl Gallagher in this spin-off from the series “Shameless”, and starring Christian Isaiah, Paris Newton, and Rebecca Metz.

Roles in movies

After Ethan made his acting debut on the big screen in the 2007 movie “Fred Claus”, a fantasy family comedy starring Vince Vaughn, Elizabeth Banks, and Paul Giamatti, he was then cast to play one of his most notable roles, as Barto in “The Unborn”, a mystery horror thriller starring Odete Annable, Cam Gigandet, and Gary Oldman. This was followed by his appearance as Neighborhood Boy in “Conviction”, a biographical crime drama about a woman who decided to finish law school to represent her wrongfully convicted brother, and which starred Hilary Swank, Melissa Leo, and Sam Rockwell; it had ten award nominations and won nine.

Ethan’s most recent role was as Josh in the 2021 movie “Alex/October”, starring alongside Lisa Zane and Rivkah Reyes in this drama about a bored girl and a sad man, who form an unusual relationship after an online ad brings their lives together.

He’s portrayed Otis in the movie “Going Places”, directed and written by Max Chernov, which is in post-production, and should be released in 2022; he starred alongside Mimi Kennedy and Miranda Rae Mayo, in this dark-comedy, about which Ethan said: ‘It’s a very creative and interesting project and I’m super excited for it to come out and have people see this, because we’ve been working so hard on it.’

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Love life and relationships

There were various rumors concerning both Ethan’s love life and sexual orientation, saying that he might be seeing one of his fellows from “Shameless”, however, Ethan hasn’t spoken about these assumptions.

Sometime in 2015, he met his now girlfriend Brielle Barbusca, who is also an actress perhaps known best for her role as Jaden Kagan in “The Starter Wife”. She was born under the zodiac sign of Scorpio on 2 November 1998, in New Jersey USA; the two have kept their relationship secret, so there isn’t much information about how they met and when.

They started posting photos featuring two of them together sometime in 2020, and were also then seen at some events together.

As of December 2021, it seems that Ethan is still in a relationship with Brielle, he hasn’t been married or engaged and doesn’t have children.

Hobbies and other interests

Besides his entrepreneurial career and acting, Ethan has launched his music career, releasing two singles – “Wondering” and “Erase me” – on which he worked with Josh Lambert, famous producer, and musician; the song “Erase me” was uploaded onto Ethan’s eponymous YouTube channel on 8 September 2021, and has amassed over 70,000 views.

He stated for the online magazine “Euphoriazine”: ‘I’ve had this passion to release music since the age of 7.

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This is stuff I write in my bedroom with my friends and they play guitar and produce it right there on the spot, so it’s a very close-knit thing’; his hobby of writing music is therapeutic for him.

Ethan also worked as a co-producer for the movie “Going Places”; as he said, he’s trying to develop himself as an artist in every way.

One of Ethan’s favorite hobbies is collecting crystals, rocks, and stones; his mother used to put crystals in his crib, and from an early age, he’s had interests in mysticism, philosophy and metaphysics.

He’s into sports, being a skater since the age of eight, also jet-skiing, riding bicycles, and taekwondo – he has a second-degree black belt in this sport. Ethan works out four to five days per week at the gym.

Ethan is active on social media networks, and his Instagram account is followed by almost three million people. He established his Twitter account in April 2010, and it’s followed by over 250,000 people, while his official Facebook page has gained nearly 30,000 fans.

Age, height, and net worth

Ethan is 22 years old – he has brown hair, blue eyes, weighs around 132lbs (60kgs) and is 5ft 7ins (1.7m) tall, with a slim and athletic body type.

As of December 2021, his net worth has been estimated at close to $1 million, most of his income is from his acting career and his line of clothes “Khaotic Collective”, which can be bought online.