Celebrity Biographies
Stephen dorff
Despite his good work, and the success of Blade , Stephen Dorff has not always been lucky throughout his career. However, great directors turn to him, so sooner or later his time will come.
Born July 29, 1973 in Atlanta, Georgia, Stephen Dorff Jr. is the son of Nancy and Steve Dorff , a highly regarded country songwriter who has created greatest hits for famous artists. Jewish on his father’s side, the boy began working very early, at the age of 12, in small-screen advertisements. Around those dates he began to lavish himself on television series such as Still the Beaver and Arnold .
He made his film debut as one of the three leading children in the horror sub-product La puerta , where his character discovers with his friends that there is a hole in his garden that leads to hell itself.
He continued to shoot a lot of television until, at the age of 19, John G. Avildsen cast him as the lead in The Force of One , about an English boy in South Africa in the 1930s. Two other younger actors also played the character in the early movies. stages of his life.
Dorff began to attract attention with Backbeat , where Stuart Sutcliffe, a bassist who belonged to The Beatles, was in the group’s early years. In I shot Andy Warhol he was another real character, the transsexual Candy Darling, muse of the pop art artist. And she did a great job as the stepson of the guy Jack Nicholson wants to steal a valuable necklace from in Blood and Wine .
Stephen Dorff’s character best known to the general public is Deacon Frost, a diabolical vampire who murdered the protagonist’s mother in Blade . But despite the film’s success, for many years Dorff has seen himself relegated to middling films, such as the failed Cecil B. Demented , in which he starred as the transgressor John Waters , or the boring horror films Fear Dot Com . , The House and Alone in the Dark .
Luckily, Dorff has been getting the attention of prestigious directors lately, including Oliver Stone ( World Trade Center ), Michael Mann ( Public Enemies ) and Sofia Coppola ( Somewhere ). He has also been the slave Stavros, in Immortals , a blockbuster of Greek gods directed by Tarsem Singh .
A coveted bachelor, Dorff has had high-profile romances with some of Hollywood’s most attractive women: Milla Jovovich , Reese Witherspoon , Pamela Anderson , Jennifer Love Hewitt , and Scarlett Johansson .