Stelio Savante
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) .
Acting
Movie
A Beautiful Mind
as Technician
2001
TV
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Milan Zergin
1999
Movie
Safe House
as Soccer Stadium Commentator (uncredited)
2012
TV
The Sopranos
as Gaetano Giarizzo
1999
TV
NCIS
as Danny Coyle
2003
TV
Person of Interest
as Aris Zappo
2011
TV
Arrested Development
as Gator
2003
TV
S.W.A.T.
as Omar Morina
2017
Movie
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
as Leo
2006
TV
FBI
as Fabian Shabani
2018
TV
The Chosen
as Moses
2019
Movie
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
as Chief Bull Brittles
2008
TV
The Suite Life on Deck
as Stéphane
2008
Movie
Nefarious
as Detective Russo
2023
TV
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Phil Bartoli
2001
TV
Ugly Betty
as Steve
2006
TV
Without a Trace
as Dimitri
2002
Movie
The Cleaning Lady
as Michael
2018
TV
Togetherness
as Yanni
2015
Movie
Sarah's Oil
as Earl
2025
Movie
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
as Hunter S. Kimbrough
2015
Movie
Infidel
as Pierre Barthes
2019
Movie
What if...
as Joel Muller
2010
Movie
Pups Alone
as Lenny
2021