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Stelio Savante
Cape Town, South Africa
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-tim…
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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) .
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Kill Trip
Movie Hank
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2026
Vindication: Search and Rescue
Movie Government Agent Stevens
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2025
Stay Forte
Movie
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2025
Sarah's Oil
Movie Earl
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2025
Hazel's Heart
Movie William
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2025
Between Borders
Movie Duane
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2024
Saint Nick of Bethlehem
Movie Harvey
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2024
Fresh Kills
Movie Nello
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2024
unDEFILED
Movie Coach Joe Baines
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2023
Condition of Return
Movie
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2023
MobKing
Movie
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2023
Nefarious
Movie Detective Russo
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2022
What Remains
Movie Scott
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2022
Find Her
Movie Felix Leonard
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2022
Pursuit of Freedom
Movie Bedros
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2022
Blackwood
Movie Henri
More credits
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2021
Pups Alone
Movie Lenny
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2021
Destination Marfa
Movie Vincent (The Hitchhiker)
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2021
The Penitent Thief
Movie Tiran
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2020
The Message
Movie Gerald Walker
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2019
Infidel
Movie Pierre Barthes
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2019
Selling Isobel
Movie Alfonso
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2019
The Chosen
TV show Moses
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2018
Bernie the Dolphin
Movie Brock Winters / The Mayor
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2018
FBI
TV show Fabian Shabani
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2018
The Cleaning Lady
Movie Michael
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2018
Running for Grace
Movie Mayor
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2018
No Postage Necessary
Movie Agent Ames
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2018
Avalanche
Movie Nate
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2017
S.W.A.T.
TV show Omar Morina
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2016
Windsor
Movie Pierre Gandy
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2016
Blood in the Water
Movie Marius Roos
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2016
Cassidy Way
Movie Truck Driver
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2016
Army Dog
Movie Sheriff Bill McCallister
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2015
American Genius
TV show David Sarnoff
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2015
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Movie Hunter S. Kimbrough
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2015
Togetherness
TV show Yanni
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2014
Where the Road Runs Out
Movie Martin
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2014
The Two Thieves
Movie Demas
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2013
The Secret Village
Movie Joe
