Born June 27, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Steve Busti started his career as a graphic designer, and had been a comic book writer and artist in the mid-1990s.Moving to Texas in 1997, Busti immersed himself in Austin's then-burgeoning indie film scene. He started his film career acting in short films and being an extra in features such as The Faculty (1998), Office Space (1999), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), and Idiocracy (2006). He later became an independent filmmaker himself before finding a new calling as a tourist attraction entrepreneur.In recent years Steve Busti has appeared as himself on several reality TV shows and documentaries, mainly as curator of the Museum of the Weird which he opened in 2007. In 2013, his museum was catapulted into the public eye thanks to Busti's acquisition of the Minnesota Iceman, a legendary sideshow attraction of a frozen prehistoric caveman, which has since been featured on programs such as "Shipping Wars" and "Mysteries at the Museum."