Steel didn’t grow up wanting to be an actor. She was born and raised in Detroit and eventually worked for the federal government as a senior revenue officer for the Internal Revenue Service for decades before retiring on Dec. 7, 1984 — a date she rattles off with impeccable memory. Steel also lived in the Virgin Islands for 20 years before moving to Georgia to be closer to her son, Scott Wardell, and grandson.
She has lived an active life full of adventure and travel (she bounced around the world as part of her job and was a bowler until age 86), and never thought of acting as a career.
But from a young age, Steel enjoyed escaping into the make-believe worlds of her books, something that acting allows as well.
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