ShowBizzBuzz: Steve Testa on ABC’s “To Tell The Truth”
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Actor Steve Testa proved himself a good liar appearing as an ‘impostor’ on the latest episode of ABC’s game show, “To Tell The Truth.”
First introduced in 1956 and then rebooted in 2016, the updated series hosted by Anthony Anderson continues the basic premise of the series, celebrity panelists are out to identify which of the three presented contestants is the real person whose often has an unusual occupation or experience. To do this, four celebrity panelists, Anderson and his mother, Doris Day Bowman, ask probing and often hilarious questions of the panelists, looking for falsehoods that would trip up the impostors. Then they must guess who they think is telling the truth and who is not.
Steve was recently brought in to stump celebrity guests Jay Pharoah, Rob Riggle, Sheri Shepherd and Inbar Lavi. He first claimed to be Hypnotherapist Patti Freeman and then stayed for the ‘Before You Go’ round asserting to be magician JB Benn. Of course, he is neither.
In fact, Steve is currently an actor but shared on the show that he previously helped launch the Space Shuttle as a former NASA Space Shuttle Engineer.
Where else have we seen Steve Testa?
Steve made the jump into the acting arena while working at NASA. He was a technical consultant on Ron Howard’s acclaimed film Apollo 13 when he was asked to step in for a scene with star Tom Hanks. Not long after appeared in HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon and the CW’s The Cape.
Since retiring, he moved to California to pursue his acting and has worked on the Amazon series The Last Tycoon as well as other indie projects. Steve is also now producing projects with his daughter, Fawn Testa-Ribeiro, under their production banner Foxtrot Creative LLC. Their first short, Lost and Found, won ‘Audience Award: Best Drama Short’ at the 2018 Silicon Beach Film Festival.
What else do we know about Steve Testa?
Steve first thought he wanted to be a musician. Inspired by his mother, he first learned how to play guitar as a child while briefly living in Ethiopia. He intended to study music in college before switching to Physics and continued to play throughout his tour in the Navy and beyond. Today, Steve remains a skilled guitarist.
Want to keep up with Steve Testa?
Visit: stevetesta.org
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