Stelio Savante

Starred in Peter Greenaway's Eisenstein in Guanajuato nominated for the Golden Bear at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival , the independent film Pacific Standard Time, HBO series Togetherness directed by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass, and co starred and produced the sex trafficking film Selling Isobel' winner of the 'Indie Award' at the 2016 Raindance Film Festival. Recently starred directly opposite Matt Dillon in Running for Grace directed by David L. Cunningham, and opposite Michael Beach in the romantic comedy No Postage Necessary. Voiced the role of Ajax in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

Film credits include Sony Pictures Entertainment Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, Corrado, Finding Hope Now, Jimmy, a supporting role in Movieguide award winner What If, and a lead role in Rudolf Buitendach's Where The Road Runs Out, the first feature to ever be filmed in Equatorial Guinea. Where The Road Runs Out won awards for Best Narrative Feature, the U-T San Diego Award at the 2014 San Diego Film Festival and a Black Reel Award for Outstanding World Cinema in 2017.

His prime-time debut came in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as a Bosnian–Muslim fundamentalist. Directed by Academy Award winner Juan Jose Campanella the episode was also nominated for an Emmy. Further television credits include Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Sopranos, Guiding Light, All My Children, as Dan 'Schaffy' Schaffner in Jim Breuer's pilot for Pulp Comics on Comedy Central and recurring as Antonio on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

In 2010, he also produced and performed the Los Angeles theater debut of 110 Stories Celebrity Benefit Performances at the Geffen Playhouse, with John Hawkes and Ed Asner directed by Mark Freiburger. All proceeds were donated to the Red Cross Los Angeles as aid to Haiti in the aftermath of their earthquake. In 2013, he produced and performed 110 Stories at Ebony Rep in Los Angeles. The proceeds were donated to Operation Gratitude. And again he produced and performed 110 Stories opposite Robert Forster and Mira Sorvino directed by his acting teacher Bill Alderson in 2016.

Savante was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 2010 and has become a vocal advocate for other sufferers. He stated that the disease attacked his organs, including his liver. He was later also diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

Relocated to Los Angeles in 2006 for recurring role of Steve (see List of Ugly Betty characters) on Ugly Betty, produced by Salma Hayek. Received a Screen Actor's Guild nomination along with the lead ensemble cast in 2007.

In 2004, he was cast in the lead role of Ecuadorian photographer Bolivar Arellano in Sarah Tuft's 9/11 celebrity benefit performances of 110 Stories at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. Savante considers this one of his breakthrough roles. To commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the tragedy Stelio also produced and performed 110 Stories Celebrity Benefit Performances with Samuel L. Jackson and Melissa Leo. at the Skirball Center for The Performing Arts at NYU. It was directed by Gregory Mosher. Savante describes 110 Stories as a chance to give people closure about the attacks; he was in New York City at the time of the attacks, and cites that as a reason why he produces the play.

Stelio Savante (born April 24, 1970) is a South African-born New York actor. In 2007 he became the first male South African-born Screen Actors Guild award nominee for his recurring role on Ugly Betty and also won best actor at the American Movie Awards in 2015 for his lead role in The Two Thieves.

Savante was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa to a Greek father and a South African born Scottish-Irish and English-Lithuanian mother. His grandfather was a racing driver who placed and won medals at the 1955 Monte Carlo Rally. Fluent in Afrikaans and Greek, he graduated from Camps Bay High School, immigrated from South Africa to the United States when he was offered an international tennis scholarship by the University of West Alabama and relocated again to New York City in 1992 to pursue an acting career.

Video game credits include: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Mass Effect 2, Army of Two: The 40th Day, a role in the live-action simulated video game Red Alert 3, and Midnight Club.