Stelio Savante

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

Birth Location Cape Town, South Africa
Born 1970-04-24

Movies

2024
unDEFILED as Coach Joe Baines
2024
Fresh Kills as Nello
2023
2023
Nefarious as Detective Russo
2023
What Remains as Scott
2022
Find Her as Felix Leonard
2022
Pursuit of Freedom as Bedros
2022
Blackwood as Henri
2022
Pups Alone as Lenny
2021
Destination Marfa as Vincent (The Hitchhiker)
2021
2021
The Message as Gerald Walker
2020
Infidel as Pierre Barthes
2019
Selling Isobel as Alfonso
2019
Bernie the Dolphin as Brock Winters / The Mayor
2018
The Cleaning Lady as Michael
2018
2018
No Postage Necessary as Agent Ames
2018
Avalanche as Nate
2018
Windsor as Pierre Gandy
2016
Blood in the Water as Marius Roos
2016
Cassidy Way as Truck Driver
2016
2016
Eisenstein in Guanajuato as Hunter S. Kimbrough
2015
2014
The Two Thieves as Demas
2014
2013
Awakened as Benny Dawson
2013
Stealing Roses as Joey
2012
Poe as Johnathon Poe
2012
A Million Colours as Major Shawn Dixon
2011
3 Blind Saints as Frankie
2011
What if... as Joel Muller
2010
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder as Chief Bull Brittles
2008
2008
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The Mob Priest as Diamond Dan
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Movies

2021
2021