Joseph Steven

Joseph Steven has taken direction from Gore Verbinski, J.J. Abrams, Iain Softley, Jim Chory, Joe Pytka, and other directors over the years. In Hollywood, his look and craft land him ‘real’ and character roles such as the quirky neighbor, detective, perp, butler, stalker, father, Frenchman, and other nut jobs.

Joseph hails from Chicago and started acting on stage in college, studied acting, advertising, and film at the University of Illinois-Urbana, and Children’s Theatre Workshop there at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The Chicago International Film Festival awarded him an honorable mention for the short film Afterthoughts.

In his decade+ tenure, Joseph has appeared on the big, little, and mobile screens in: Star Trek (with Eric Bana—as a Romulan engineer), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (motion-capture as Greenbeard, with Orlando Bloom), K-PAX (with Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges), Galaxy Quest (with Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver); Wanda at Large (with Wanda Sykes) and The District (opposite Ernest Borgnine); the award-winning La Première (with James Earl Jones) and The Last Days of Toussaint L’Ouverture (both, as Frenchmen [fluent]); plus, LA Shorts 2013’s Memoirs, The Fourth Horseman, The Imperfect Method, Pawn; the web series Beverly Hills Salon, Young Gentlemen Explorers and recently in Chekhov’s The Bear; and, the live gladiator show Spartacus. See IMDb.me/JosephSteven.

In his free time, Joseph might be found swing dancing, coaching French-US expats, performing solo on stage, or engaged in Bible study.

Little known fact: Joseph owned an advertising agency in Illinois before moving to Los Angeles …via Paris, France where he worked in urban missions with street kids and heroin addicts.