Birth nameStephen Dorff Jr. Birth information29 July 1973, Atlanta, Georgia, USA BioStephen Dorff has become one of the most respected young actors in Hollywood. His recent credits include Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (2006), Robert Ludlum's Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006) (TV), .45 (2006) with Milla Jovovich, Shadowboxer (2005) with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Helen Mirren and the Disney thriller Cold Creek Manor (2003) with Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone for director Mike Figgis.He also starred in Scott Kalvert's street gang drama Deuces Wild (2002) for MGM and as the champion of bad cinema in the John Waters comedy Cecil B. DeMented (2000), co-starring Melanie Griffith.Dorff has an impressive list of screen credits, chief among them New Line's Blade (1998), in which he starred opposite Wesley Snipes and won the "Best Villain" at both the MTV Movie and Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. He also co-starred with Susan Sarandon in HBO's Earthly Possessions (1999) (TV), based on Anne Tyler's novel about an unlikely romance between a young, fumbling bank robber and his hostage.Additional credits include Entropy (1999/I), Blood and Wine (1996) with Jack Nicholson and opposite Harvey Keitel in City of Industry (1997). He starred as the fifth Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe, in Iain Softley's Backbeat (1994) and as the notorious Candy Darling in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996).Chosen from over 2000 young men from around the world, he auditioned and won the coveted role of PK in John G. Avildsen's The Power of One (1992) in 1992. For his performance he was awarded the Male Star of Tomorrow Award from the National Association of Theater Owners.

Lionsgate Home Entertainment will open the gates of hell on October 6th and unleash a "Monstrous Special Edition" of the 1987 cult classic The Gate on DVD. The long awaited special edition disc will include a commentary track with director Tibor Takacs, interviews with the cast and crew, a stills gallery, and the original trailer. The 1987 film was the screen debut of Stephen Dorff (Blade), who plays a boy who accidentally opens a gate to hell in his backyard, releasing a horde of cool looking claymation demons. The Gate has a well deserved reputation for being one of the most creepy horror flicks to have a pg-13 rating, and this dvd will make a nice addition to your Halloween viewing schedule.
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This summer he took a turn as John Dillinger’s conspirator, Homer van Meter, in Michael Mann’s Public Enemies, and aside from the Coppola project, in which he plays a massive Hollywood star dealing with both his 11-year-old daughter (played by Elle Fanning) and his own emotional implosions, he also appeared in and co-produced the biting prison drama Felon (2008), and is now working on an Adam Sandler film, Born to Be a Star, in which he plays a porn star. All of this eclecticism sounds about right for a versatile performer like Dorff. Here he talks to his close friend Owen Wilson about what he’s gained and what he’s lost and what he’s still committed to learning (Guitar Hero).
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Back in October of 2008, The Sunday Mail reported that Blade director Stephen Norrington and actor Stephen Dorff, who played villain Deacon Frost in the original 1998 film, were working on a prequel trilogy which would focus on the Frost character.
"It will be a prequel to the Blade movies, Deacon's story," Dorff said. "It's a new trilogy the director has created. It will cool."
"We hope to shoot the first film next year," he added. "Frost is a character I have never been able to shake."
Now, according to a report over at Comics2Film, Dorff has updated that information, stating that the project is "not exactly how the article describes but close."
Meanwhile, Norrington told the site that the film is definitely envisioned as part of the existing mythology. "The linkage to 'Blade' is still big in the equation."
The original Frost comic book character, written by Marv Wolfman

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