Early Life and Acting Training
Steel's parents are Glenys Steel and Ray Steel. He has two older sisters, Nicole Simpson (Steel) and Kara Joiner (Steel). Steel moved to Sydney after completing his high school studies in 1993. His family remained in Melbourne.
Steel started taking acting lessons when he was eleven. This later led to studies at Sydney's Australian Theatre for Young People and The Actor's Centre. It was at The Actor's Pulse in Sydney that Steel discovered the Meisner acting technique.
He continued his studies with the Meisner technique overseas at The Impulse Company in London, and Playhouse West in Los Angeles.
He is currently studying at The Prague Playhouse in the Czech Republic.
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