Candidate for
Council Member; City of West Hollywood

Steven Koller was born in Long Beach, New York, in 1966, the second of four children to Maureen Davies Koller of Point Lookout, New York, and Siegmar Koller, an architect and builder from Vienna, Austria. The family relocated to Dallas, Texas, in 1975, where Steven's father ran a successful homebuilding business and his full-time mother drove him from swim team practice to soccer practice to play rehearsals and to Jesuit College Preparatory School.

He started college at the University of Texas in Austin and transferred to Webster University in Vienna, Austria, during his sophomore year. Steven was greatly influenced in reading world literature and history by his grandmother, Mariella Koller, in the theatrical arts and music by his famous aunt, Dagmar Koller, and, not in the least, civic leadership by his uncle, Dr. Helmut Zilk, who served as mayor and governor of Vienna from 1984-1994. Steven graduated from Webster in 1991 with a B.A. in International Studies. After completing college he wanted to see the rest of the world and embarked on a four-year career as a purser for American Airlines. In 1994 he relocated to southern California, living in the Beverly Hills area of LA while studying performing arts at UCLA.

He joined the Screen Actors Guild in 1999 and began working professionally in television and film. In 2001 he was offered the theatrical role of a lifetime, playing the very political Louis Ironson in Tony Kushner's Pulitzer prize-winning epic, "Angels in America", at the International Theatre in Vienna. He eerily made his debut in that production on September 11, 2001, staying with the show for a six-month run. Back in LA, he was offered a recurring role on a new CBS primetime series entitled "The Agency". Steven played the junior assistant to CIA director Tom Gage (played by Beau Bridges) for two seasons. He followed that show with guest roles on "Will & Grace", "Gilmore Girls", and "Crossing Jordan". Last year he shot eight episodes of the ABC sitcom "Crumbs" with Jane Curtin and Fred Savage. He and his partner of seven years, Tripp Mahan, moved to West Hollywood in July 2005, with their Coton de Tulear dog, Bisbee.