
Stelio Savante
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1970-04-24
Place of birth: Cape Town, South Africa
Biography
A South African born New Yorker with over three decades of versatile, award winning performances in popular, world-wide theatrically released studio & independent films, prime-time & cable television & New York theater. After small speaking roles opposite Russell Crowe in Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind (2001) & David Chase's The Sopranos (1999) as Gaetano; his breakthrough lead role came in 2005 on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) directed by Oscar winner Juan José Campanella. Starring opposite Mariska Hargitay, Chris Meloni, & Bradley Cooper as the chilling yet engaging fundamentalist Milan Zergin. Also, a coveted recurring role on Ugly Betty (2006), becoming South Africa's first male SAG Award Nominee (Ensemble Comedy Performance). Followed by significant supporting roles in the studio films My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) opposite Eddie Izzard, Luke Wilson, & Uma Thurman directed by Ivan Reitman for Twentieth Century Fox . An ensemble lead in Sony's Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008) produced by David Lancaster, a supporting role in Pure Flix's What If... (2010), & supporting lead in the Lionsgate family film Army Dog (2016) .
Known for

My Super Ex-Girlfriend
2006Leo
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
2008Chief Bull Brittles
Pups Alone
2021Lenny
Nefarious
2023Detective Russo
MobKing
2023
Poe
2012Johnathon Poe
3 Blind Saints
2011Frankie
Selling Isobel
2019Alfonso
Condition of Return
2023
Find Her
2022Felix LeonardThe Coldest Winter
2005
The Secret Village
2013Joe
Blackwood
2022Henri
Awakened
2013Benny Dawson
Stealing Roses
2012Joey
Saint Nick of Bethlehem
2024Harvey
unDEFILED
2024Coach Joe Baines
What Remains
2022Scott
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
2015Hunter S. Kimbrough