Steven Strait

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| name = Steven Strait

| image = Steven Strait -7- (32695752360) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Strait at the 2016 Fan Expo Canada

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|3|23}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| occupation = Actor, singer

| years_active = 2001–present

| spouse = {{Plainlist}}

{{marriage|Lynn Collins|2007|2013|end=divorced}}

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Steven Strait (born March 23, 1986) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for starring as Warren Peace in the adventure film Sky High (2005) and as Jim Holden in the science fiction series The Expanse (2015–2022).

Early life

Strait was born and raised in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, the son of Jean (née Viscione) and Richard Dyer Strait.{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/xavierhs/docs/xvnewsv13-01/2|title=March 2010 Alumnews|author=Xavier High School|work=Issuu}} His ancestry is Dutch and Italian.{{cite news|url=http://models.com/model_culture/model_of_week/steven/index.html |title=Steven Strait |publisher=models.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110116001725/http://models.com/model_culture/model_of_week/steven/index.html |archive-date=2011-01-16 }} He attended Village Community School, Xavier High School and took classes at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.

Career

During his teen years, Strait modeled for several magazines, including L'uomo Vogue, Spoon, Details, Surface, Hollister Co., and Pop, and worked with photographers Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Ellen von Unwerth.

Strait began taking acting lessons at the age of eleven. In the sixth grade, he began to take performing classes at the Village Community School. Although forced into it at first, he found a passion for acting after he performed live for the first time. He has worked at both the Stella Adler Acting Studio and the Black Nexxus Acting Studio in New York City.

In 2004, he moved to California to pursue a career in acting. After his first audition, he received an acting job, and in 2005, he appeared in his first film, Sky High, where he played a teenage superhero named Warren Peace.{{cite web|url=http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/interview-strait-stan|title=INT: Strait / Stan|date=August 10, 2006 }} He covered The Fixx's song "One Thing Leads to Another" for the film's soundtrack.

Image:Steven Straight 2009 City Island premiere.jpg

His next film starring role was in Undiscovered, about young singers and actors in the entertainment industry who want to become stars. He also contributed seven songs to the Undiscovered soundtrack.{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/undiscovered-mw0000307088 |title=Undiscovered – Original Soundtrack |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=March 17, 2014}} In 2006, he starred as Caleb Danvers in the supernatural thriller film The Covenant, which opened on September 8.{{cite web|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700004309/Covenant-The.html|title=Film review: Covenant, The|author=Jeff Vice|date=9 September 2006|work=DeseretNews.com|access-date=June 18, 2013|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044110/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700004309/Covenant-The.html|url-status=dead}} Strait appeared opposite Camilla Belle in 10,000 BC, a film about prehistoric Earth, released in March 2008. He played a young mammoth hunter, D'Leh, as he travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from slavery.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/03/06/emmerich.10000BC/|title=10,000 BC: Emmerich's hardest film yet|publisher=CNN}}

Strait appeared in the 2008 film Stop-Loss as Michael Colson. In 2009, he played Tony, the son of Andy Garcia's character, in the film City Island.{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/ten/2010/0722/cityisland.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918161220/https://www.rte.ie/ten/2010/0722/cityisland.html|title=City Island|website=RTÉ.ie |date=22 July 2010|archive-date=18 September 2012}}

In November 2010, he guest starred on the NBC series Chase as Jackson Cooper, a fugitive with a dark past who manipulates his teenage girlfriend with promises of freedom from her father and a life filled with romance and adventure.

From 2012 to 2013, Strait co-starred on the Starz series Magic City, which centered on Miami mobsters and other characters from Miami Beach in the late 1950s. Strait played the son of Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character, Ike Evans.{{cite web|url=http://www.starz.com/originals/magiccity/cast/stevieevans/stevenstrait/pages/stevenstrait.aspx|title=Magic City Official Site - STARZ|work=Starz.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411133047/http://www.starz.com/originals/MagicCity/Cast/StevieEvans/StevenStrait/Pages/StevenStrait.aspx|archive-date=2013-04-11}}

In 2012, Strait played Freddy in the sci-fi thriller After. The story centered on two bus crash survivors who wake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town.{{cite web|url=http://collider.com/steven-strait-after-magic-city-season-2-interview/|title=Steven Strait Talks After and Magic City Season 2|date=15 September 2012|work=Collider}}{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/after-2012|title=After (2012)|work=Dread Central|date=August 30, 2012}}

In 2014, Strait was cast in the lead role of James "Jim" Holden in the science fiction series The Expanse, which aired from 2015–2022 on SyFy (seasons 1–3) and Amazon Prime Video (seasons 4–6).

Personal life

Strait was married to actress Lynn Collins on December 23, 2007 after dating for four years. The couple divorced in 2013.{{Cite web |last=Gelt |first=Jessica |date=September 9, 2009|title=Supper Club, where dining is a class act |url=http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-supperclub9-2009sep09,0,5990409.story |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204123519/http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-supperclub9-2009sep09%2C0%2C5990409.story |archive-date=February 4, 2011 |website=Los Angeles Times |quote=Other sun-soaked Hollywood guests included actress Lynn Collins ('True Blood' and 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine') and her husband, actor Steven Strait.... |df=mdy-all}}

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable"|Notes

rowspan="2"|2005

|Sky High

|Warren Peace

Undiscovered

|Luke Falcon

2006

|{{sortname|The|Covenant|dab=2006 film}}

|Caleb Danvers

rowspan="2"|2008

|10,000 BC

|D'Leh

Stop-Loss

|Michael Colson

2009

|City Island

|Tony Nardella

2012

|After

|Freddy

2013

|Sleeping with the Fishes

|Dominic Sebastiani

2016

|Hot

|Jones

rowspan="2"|2019

|Life Like

|Henry

Here Awhile

| Michael

|Body Language

|Dylan

|Post-production

|Serena

|Chris Sadowski

|Filming{{Cite web |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas |date=2024-12-16 |title=A.I. Thriller ‘Serena’ Underway With Andi Matichak, Steven Strait & Ashleigh Murray Among Cast |url=https://deadline.com/2024/12/andi-matichak-steven-strait-ashleigh-murray-ai-movie-serena-1236204469/ |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable"|Notes

2001

|Third Watch

|Teenage Bobby

|Episode: "Requiem for a Bantamweight"

rowspan="2"|2010

|HMS: White Coat

|Jonathan David

|Unsold CW pilot

Chase

|Jackson Cooper

|Episode: "Crazy Love"

2012–2013

|Magic City

|Steven "Stevie" Evans

|Main role

2014

|Revenge

|Brooks

|Episodes: "Struggle", "Disgrace"

2015–2022

|The Expanse

|James Holden

|Main role; also producer

2024

|Life in Zero G with Steven Strait

|as himself

|Web series{{cite web |title=LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT (THE EXPANSE) |author=Space Rocks |website=YouTube |date=2024-03-06 |url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgsSpdCyDjr6xNPrUMdKw9tQklQ8KrnPZ |access-date=2024-10-08}}

2024–present

|Chicago Fire

|Flynn Calhoun

|7 episodes