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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.

Acting

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. He had to shave his legs and wax his eyebrows to play the part. In 1996 he starred in the movie Space Truckers (1996). It is said that he is most proud of the movie Backbeat (1994) for his role of Stuart Sutcliffe the fifth Beatle, "and not so proud of" Judgment Night (1993). In the 2005 film Shadowboxer, he appears in a full-frontal nude scene. He was also one of the first actors to act in the first digitally downloadable movie, SightSound.com's Quantum Project, also starring John Cleese. He is set to appear as the title role in a live action TV series of the comic/video game of XIII.

Dorff appeared in over 35 music videos. He starred in "Rollin'" by Limp Bizkit and Britney Spears' 2004 single "Everytime".

Relationships

Dorff has been linked to Courtney Wagner, his first serious girlfriend, the daughter of Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood. He later briefly dated Clueless star, Alicia Silverstone. They both appeared in the music video "Cryin'" by Aerosmith. He has also dated Milla Jovovich, who starred opposite Bruce Willis in The Fifth Element; as well as model Rhea Durham for about 2 years (who currently has children with Mark Wahlberg), a woman named Eugenie (with him during the release of his movie Riders in France); model Georgina Grenville, model May Andersen (July 2003 to April/May 2004); and model Shannan Click (Aug. 2004 to Nov. 2004). Most recently, he has dated model and actress Pamela Anderson for five months (Dec 2004 to end/beginning of Apr/May 2005). He was also falsely linked with Girls Aloud band member Sarah Harding. Dorff is a good friend of Ben Stiller. He most recently dated singer/actress Rachel Stevens in 2006, but in January 2007 it was reported by Page Six that he is "on the hunt" for Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr.