Early Life
Berkoff was born Leslie Steven Berks, in Stepney, in the East End of London, on 3 August 1937, the son of Pauline (Hyman), a housewife, and Alfred Berks (Berkovitch), a tailor. His family was of Romanian Jewish background. He attended Raine's Foundation Grammar School (1948–50), Hackney Downs School, the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (1958), and L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (1965).
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