Short Biography

Steve Burton (born Jack Stephen Burton on June 28, 1970 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American actor who is best known for playing Jason (Quartermaine) Morgan on General Hospital from 1991 to 2000 and subsequently from 2002 to the present, as well as providing the voice for the protagonist of Final Fantasy VII, Cloud Strife.

Steve Burton graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California, and then got his break as a surfer boy on the sitcom Out of This World in 1987.

His first acting teacher was Jon Cedar at Theater-Theater in Hollywood, where he trained with fellow actors Gedde Watanabe and Chris Aable. In 2007, Burton became an original cast member of the General Hospital prime-time spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift while maintaining his day job on GH.

Previously, he appeared on Days of Our Lives in 1988 as Harris Michaels, a love interest to Eve Donovan, played by Charlotte Ross.

Burton also appeared in the science fiction miniseries Taken and in the movie The Last Castle in 2001 with Robert Redford and James Gandolfini. Burton is also the voice actor of Cloud Strife from the Final Fantasy VII series. He has voiced Cloud in the game Kingdom Hearts and its sequel, Kingdom Hearts II, as well as in the CGI movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and the video game Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII.

Burton is known as a practical joker on the set of GH, and one of his closest friends is former co-star Michael Saucedo, husband of close friend and current co-star Rebecca Herbst.

Burton is best friends with on-screen best friend Maurice Benard.

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