David Burrus

David "Dj" Burrus, Jr., was born and raised in Long Beach, California. He and his family grew up as huge movie fans. As a young child (beginning at the age of three), David began pestering his parents after every movie, inquiring how he could "get up there on the big movie screen". Both of his parents dismissed the questions and told him that it was nearly impossible and extremely hard to become an actor. His dad, being a serious sports fan, enrolled David in football, baseball, and soccer programs between the ages of three and seven. All the while, David Jr. constantly inquired about "getting up there on that big screen". At the age of seven, his parents decided that the only way to make him stop asking about the acting industry would be to place him in an acting class, pull him from sports, and let him experience the mundane and repetitive world of script reading, line memorization and Saturday mornings on the 405 Freeway. David Jr. was enrolled in Young Actors Studio with his new te