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Stephen Dorff

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American actor

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Stephen Dorff is an American actor and film producer who began his work period in 1985. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 29, 1973, he is a citizen of the United States. His father is Steve Dorff. Dorff speaks English as his native language.

He has received the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain. Among his credited works is *Carjacked*, which is listed under an author name shared with Maria Bello.

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Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Carjacked

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Film & TV

Acting · Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Stephen Hartley Dorff Jr. (born July 29, 1973) is an American actor. Starting his film career as a child, appearing in the cult horror film The Gate (1987), Dorff first rose to prominence playing Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat (1994) and then gained further mainstream attention for portraying Deacon Frost in Blade (1998). Other notable lead roles include Bob Rafelson's Blood and Wine (1997), the…

Known for

  • Vampires of the Velvet Lounge — Randall/Ramsey2026
  • Viper2026
  • Bride Hard — Kurt2025
  • Gunslingers — Thomas Keller2025
  • Blood for Dust — Gus2024
  • The Trainer — Will2024
  • Clear Cut — Ike2024
  • Dead Man's Hand — Mayor Clarence Bishop2023
  • Mob Land — Clayton Minor2023
  • The Price We Pay — Cody2023

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1973

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
173
Total plays
482

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Dorff">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Basic local alignment search tool

    · 1990 · cited 80,810x

  2. Convex Optimization

    · 2004 · cited 41,074x

  3. Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

    · 2021 · cited 29,279x

  4. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

    · 1938 · cited 24,540x

  5. Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations

    · 1991 · cited 23,117x

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Key facts

Born
Stephen Hartley Dorff Jr. , ( 1973-07-29 ) July 29, 1973 (age 52) , Atlanta , Georgia , United States
Other name
Brad Matlock
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1985–present
Father
Steve Dorff

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Stephen
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Atlanta
Occupation
film producer
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Image
StephenDorff08TIFF.jpg
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Commons category
Stephen Dorff
date of birth
1973-07-29
name in native language
Stephen Dorff
start of work period
1985-00-00
writing language
English language
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Encyclopedic overview

Stephen Hartley Dorff Jr. (born July 29, 1973) is an American actor. Starting his film career as a child appearing in the cult horror film The Gate (1987), Dorff first rose to prominence playing Peter Philip Kennith Keith (nicknamed "PK") in The Power of One (1992) and later as Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat (1994) and then gained further mainstream attention for portraying Deacon Frost in Blade (1998). Other notable lead roles include the titular character in John Waters' Cecil B. DeMented (2000) and Johnny Marco in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere (2010).

Supporting roles include Candy Darling in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), Detective Scott Strauss World Trade Center (2006), Homer Van Meter in Public Enemies (2009), Stavros in Immortals (2011), Joseph Kuklinski in The Iceman (2012) and Ketchum in Old Henry (2021). He is also known for portraying Roland West in the third season of HBO's crime drama anthology series True Detective (2019).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stephen Dorff” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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