Career Theatre īerkoff started his theatre training in the Repertory Company at Her Majesty's Theatre in Barrow-in-Furness, for approximately two months, in June and July 1962. He took drama courses at City Literary Institute (1957–58), trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (1958–59), and later trained in physical theatre and mime at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, graduating in 1965. In 1952, he was arrested for stealing a bicycle and was sentenced to three months in borstal. Berkoff attended Raine's Foundation Grammar School (1948–50) and Hackney Downs School (1950-1955). However, Berkoff's father struggled to find work, and after a few months the family returned to England. In 1947 he and his family emigrated to the United States, sailing from Southampton aboard the Queen Elizabeth to live with relatives of Berkoff's mother in Nyack, New York. ĭuring World War II, Berkoff, his sister and their mother were evacuated to Luton, Bedfordshire in 1942. Steven (who had been known as Leslie growing up) later legally changed his surname to Berkoff and went by his middle name. The family name was originally Berkowitz, but Steven's father anglicised it to Berks in order to aid the family's assimilation into British society. He comes from a Jewish family his grandparents emigrated to England in the 1890s, his paternal grandparents from Romania, and his maternal grandparents from Russia. He had an older sister, Beryl (1930-before 2010).
Berkoff was born Leslie Steven Berks on 3 August 1937, in Stepney in the East End of London, the son of Pauline "Polly" (née Hyman), a housewife, and Alfred "Al" Berks, a tailor.
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