Stephen Dorff

Stephen Dorff (born July 29, 1973) is an American actor, best known for portraying Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat and for his roles in Blade and Cecil B. DeMented. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. to a Jewish father (composer Steve Dorff) and a Christian mother Nancy Dorff was raised in Los Angeles, where his father worked as a film composer. Stephen started acting in television, doing guest roles. He appeared in shows such as Diff'rent Strokes, Roseanne, Married With Children, Blossom and some television movies like In Love and War, I Know My First Name is Steven, A Son's Promise, Do You Know the Muffin Man? and What a Dummy. Today, he is most famous for his part as the evil vampire Deacon Frost in the horror film Blade (1998). Fans of horror movies may remember him from The Gate (1987) (his first major film.) Dorff also played the role of transgendered Candy Darling in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), a film about Valerie Solanas, the woman infamous for shooting pop-art icon Andy Warhol....