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Stephen Dorff
Stephen Dorff Biography: Actor
Stephen Dorff was born on July 29, 1973 in Atlanta Georgia and got his acting
start at age eleven in a He-Man commercial for Mattel. In 1989 Dorff had a
recurring role in the television series Roseanne but truly made Hollywood take
notice after starring in the movie The Power of One. From there Dorff starred in
a number of art films such as S.F.W. and I Shot Andy Warhol and was soon rubbing
elbows with the Hollywood elite after starring in such films as Space Truckers,
City of Industry, and Blood and Wine. From there Dorff Strared in the movie
Blade, Quantum Project, and Cecil B. Demented, and is set to star in Deuces
Wild.
Although
Stephen Dorff has been called the "angriest man in Hollywood", he is
still coveted by millions of fans in all parts of the world. So what is
Stephen really like you ask? Well, those who have met him agree that he seems
like he is in control of his life which is rare for a young celebrity. Also,
is seems he doesn't have a hard time admitting his faults and appears to tell
it like it is. He also expressed that this is a quality he admires in others.
He claims to have plenty of bad habits, one of which is smoking.
Although he
has been called the "angriest man in Hollywood", he is still coveted
by millions of fans in all parts of the world. Here are some simple
facts about this talented actor:
Born in
Altanta, Georgia on July 29, 1973
Astrological
Sign: Leo
Single (no
prior marriage/kids) Heterosexual
Acting
since the tender age of 12
Has brother
in music: Andrew Dorff
Dad in the
music biz: Steven Dorff
His role
model: Jack Nicholson
Collects
antique cameras and vintage guitars
Aspires to
be a director one day
Stephen
says he tries to choose the roles he portrays, but has been known to accept
roles just for the money (he has to eat to keep his buff bod). Either way, he
claims to work hard and put effort into each and every role he undertakes.
His fans'
biggest concern was his sexual preference. According to an interview, Stephen
comments that he has close friends that are homosexual, but he claims to be
completely straight. The following are models he presumably had a relationship
with but not limited to: Courtney Wagner, Milla Yovovitch, and Rhea Durham. He
is not currently seeing anyone seriously to our knowledge.
 
Sunday August 30, 1998
On the edge with Dorff
By NATASHA STOYNOFF
Toronto Sun
VAMPING IT UP: On-screen, actor Steven Dorf has a scruffier
Matt-Damon-with-an-edge look. In person, he cleans up real nice.
So it's no surprise to find out that when it came time to cast
Oscar-sweeper Titanic, director James Cameron had the list down to Dorf or
the even sweeter-faced Di-
Caprio.
"It was definitely between me and him" he says.
"I didn't get the part, and I think things happen for a reason. At
the end of the day, I think the movie is more about a boat than anything
else," he adds.
"I don't know if I'd want that to be my monster hit."
Dorf is more of a small-film guy, he said recently, during a chat in New
York.
"I've resisted the movies that would be released on 3,000 screens. I
feel it's dangerous doing the one that you know you'll be famous for. It's
almost like you can't follow it up. Doing Titanic, I don't know what would
have happened."
His new film, Blade, has him preying on the young and succulent.
"I saw an idea to create a kind of yuppie, entrepreneur kind of
vampire," he says.
"We tried to give him a subtle look. The fangs are really subtle and
I wear grey contacts to throw it off a bit.
"I tried to make him kinda stylish and extremely hip. He has the
intrigue of something that is evil but kind of beautiful," says Dorf.
Dorf even has a romantic vampire scene and kisses a girl as blood streams
out of their mouths.
"It was cool and sticky and it was made out of sugar and red dye. I
got my sugar fix for the day."
Sunday August 16, 1998
Howling with Jack
Stephen Dorff prefers a good time to the big
time
By LOUIS B. HOBSON -- Calgary Sun
NEW YORK -- Stephen Dorff loves the night life, and boy did he boogie the
night away last week.
"I turned 25 and it was a pretty traumatic experience so I threw
myself a real party,"says Dorff.
"The guest list was 80 percent girls and 20 percent guys. Those are
my kind of odds.
"Jack Nicholson came and took one look at the ratio and told me it
was his kind of party."
Dorff starred with Nicholson in the dark thriller Blood and Wine and,
despite the difference in their ages, the two have been friends ever
since.
"Jack even posed outside the (Buffalo Club) without his shades on. If
you know Jack, that's a real honor. It was the coolest thing about my
birthday."
Dorff has been acting since he was 14. He started out guest-starring on TV
sitcoms, eventually playing Becky's boyfriend on Roseanne.
His big break came when he played the lead in the TV miniseries I know My
Name is Steven, and he graduated to feature films when he played the young
South African boxer in The Power of One.
Hollywood thought they'd found a new teen idol, but Dorff was having none
of that. He turned down roles in films like Speed to star in small,
independent films like Back Beat, City of Industry, S.F.W. and I Shot Andy
Warhol.
Two years ago, James Cameron asked Dorff to read for the struggling artist
in Titanic. As everyone knows, the role went to Leonardo DiCaprio.
"I didn't turn down the role," Dorff says. "I just
didn't get it. Now I'm relieved it didn't happen for me.
"I want to have a career like Johnny Depp, Sean Penn and Jack
Nicholson. I want to win an Oscar
one day. That would have been impossible if I'd got Titanic. Look at Leo.
His career can only go downhill from here.
"He'll always be the guy on the boat. His fans will never want him to
be anybody else.
"I'm only 25. I've got a long way to go before I do my one big movie.
Leo's younger than me and he's already done it."
Dorff's first big-budget film is the sci-fi thriller Blade, which opens
Friday in Calgary.
He plays a yuppie vampire being tracked by
Wesley Snipes' superhuman vampire slayer.
"I loved vampire movies growing up," he says. "Lost Boys
was a really cool movie for me -- that's why I jumped at the chance to
star in Blade.
"Vampires are the sexy monsters."
Dorff grew up in a middle-class home in the affluent San Fernando Valley.
His father Steve Dorff is a composer for movies, having scored most of
Clint Eastwood's early films.
"I visited the set of Clint's Every Which Way But Loose when I was
13. There was a kid on the set my age. I loved the idea that he didn't
have to go to a regular school. That's what made me want to be an actor.
"I've only grown to love and understand what acting really means
these past couple of years."
Dorff plays guitar and piano and writes music.
"Music is in my blood. My dad wrote and produced songs for Barbra
Streisand, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks and a
lot of other country dudes I've never heard of.
"My brother Andrew, who just turned 21, has put out his first album.
It's doing really well in Europe.
"I'm leaving the music to him and he's leaving the acting to me.
Sometime in the future we might switch.
"I've got a lot of great friends in the music world. That's good
enough for me right now."
These friends include Irish rockers U2, who Dorff met while filming his
newest movie Entropy. He plays a hip young
director making a documentary about U2.
"I got to go on their concert tour with them. I was being filmed
pretending to be filming them."
Since he broke into feature films, Dorff has been compared to River
Phoenix and Christian Slater.
"River's death was a great blow to me," he says. "Many of
my friends are messed on drugs. They use drugs as an
escape, not realizing they're really a trap.
"If someone like River who had an incredible mind could be destroyed
by drugs, that's a big warning to all of us. It sure woke me up.
"Booze has routinely been my escape but it never really works.
"I like the night life, but I prefer to remember my nights the
following day."
Thursday, March 13, 1997
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The party boy
By LOUIS B. HOBSON
Calgary Sun
BEVERLY HILLS -- Stephen Dorff is getting down to business.
That doesn't mean the party is over. It just means he's putting it on
hold.
He admits it's time he became known as much for his movies as for his busy
private life. For the past three years, Dorff, 23, has been Hollywood's
poster party boy.
He's been photographed with numerous models and actresses at all the
trendy Hollywood bars and parties.
When he wasn't on the arm of some beautiful starlet or model, Dorff was
partying it up with R.E.M.'s flamboyant bisexual frontman Michael Stipe.
"I don't feel I need to put my private life in perspective, but I
don't mind," says Dorff.
"I'm straight, but I feel very comfortable around gay men and women.
I grew up around them. My agent is gay and so is my entertainment lawyer.
"Michael is one of my best friends. The first time we met, I sensed
we had a natural rapport.
"I honestly think I could be happy being gay, but I like women too
much to make the switch.
"I explain my relationship with Michael as I do with most of the
women I've been photographed with. There is a big difference between going
out with a person and hanging out with someone."
Dorff insists he's not as much of a womanizer as he's been made out to be.
"I'm single again now, but I had just one steady girlfriend for about
a year.
"I didn't go out with anyone else.
"She was the kind of woman who could completely change her looks with
makeup, hairstyles and clothes, so it only seemed as if I had a different
girl on my arm every week."
Dorff actually lost his most recent steady because of his new work ethic.
He's been immersing himself in his work, so he doesn't have time to party.
Dorff has been acting since he was 10, first as a regular on such TV shows
as Roseanne, Family Ties and Diff'rent Strokes.
He made his big-screen debut as the young boxer in The Power Of One.
"I've always been great at pretending. It's what I do best."
In Backbeat, he pretended to be lost Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe. In I Shot
Andy Warhol, he pretended to be drag queen Candy Darling, and in S.F.W.,
he did his tribute to grunge martyr Kurt Cobain.
Those were all small films that earned Dorff a cult following.
"All those films mean a great deal to me, but I what I really want
now is for large numbers of people to see my work.
"That means I have to do more commercial films."
What it really means is that Dorff has to stop turning down commercial
offers as he did with Mad Love and, more recently, Titanic.
Dorff has two films coming out this month.
The first is the heist film City Of Industry, in which he and Harvey
Keitel play thieves pitted against one another when Dorff steals the loot
and murders all the gang members except Keitel. It opens tomorrow.
In Blood And Wine, another dark heist movie, Dorff plays Jack Nicholson's
stepson.
Dorff is currently filming the Wesley Snipes action thriller Blade. Dorff
plays the vampire villain in this superhero comic-book fantasy.
Sunday, February 16, 1997
Changing his ways
Stephen Dorff goes mainstream as he takes on
more `commercial' projects
By BOB THOMPSON
Toronto Sun
HOLLYWOOD -- Only Stephen Dorff would see fit to smoke a cigarette while
nursing a sore throat. "Yeah, I'm deathly ill," he says in a
raspy voice.
"Guess I shouldn't be doing this," adds Dorff pointing to his
Marlboro.
Guess not. But then there is no accounting for Dorff's choices, whether it
be a flu accessory or career moves.
If there was a poll taken among current actors, Dorff would certainly be
voted the most likely to make the most unpredictable and the least
conventional film selections.
Although he had worked in TV commercials since age 11, the 23-year-old
former San Fernando Valley boy made his official debut at 17 as the kid
boxer in The Power Of One.
He followed that movie with a string of low-profile film endeavors, mostly
defined by his quirky portrayals -- his drag queen Candy Darling in I Shot
Andy Warhol and his Kurt Cobain-like martyr-victim in S.F.W.
Only Dorff's Backbeat portrayal of the fifth Beatle Stu Sutcliffe hinted
at commercial potential and an easy-to-identify style.
Unfortunately and ironically, Dorff chose all of those parts to avoid
cliches, but inadvertently became one -- a rockin', hard-livin', die-young
rebel -- because of the associations with his characters.
While he maintains that reports of his rock 'n' rollin' nightlife have
been greatly exaggerated, Dorff went through a year or two where he was
picture-perfect as the exiting last-call party man.
His touring with the band R.E.M. two years ago sort of galvanized his
"free-and-easy alternative" image, as did unconfirmed reports
that he was having a relationship with R.E.M.'s bisexual singer Michael
Stipe.
Those "confusions" are far behind him now as he ponders what
seems to be a bright, not dark, mainstream, not independent, future.
"Ultimately," says Dorff, "I want people to see my movies.
I was getting frustrated because they weren't."
All that might change. Dorff is currently filming Blade with Wesley
Snipes, a mega-budget sci-fi flick. His co-starring role in City Of
Industry with Harvey Keitel will be on screens in March, and he can be
seen opposite Jack Nicholson in Blood And Wine, which opens Friday.
"It's weird," acknowledges Dorff, "I didn't do any big
commercial stuff before, because I always preferred to be the victim or
the more active one in the story."
Blockbuster now has a whole new meaning for Dorff after stepping on to the
Blade studio soundstage.
"It's massive," Dorff says. "The sets are like 8,000
storeys high. Everything becomes so much bigger."
For City Of Industry, Dorff witnessed the intensity of Keitel, but it was
THE Jack experiences he most vividly recalls.
"I would have paid him to be in his movie," says Dorff of the
Nicholson vehicle. That would be the Bob Rafelson-directed Blood And Wine,
also co-starring Judy Davis, Michael Caine and Jennifer Lopez.
Dorff plays Nicholson's stepson, who confronts his wine-merchant father
while he's in the middle of an affair and a heist. The interplay between
Nicholson and Dorff is familiar and forceful, and for good reason.
"Working with him was the most incredible and unbelieveable
experience I have ever had," says Dorff who admits to being initially
intimidated by Nicholson when they met on location in Miami.
"Then he said" -- Dorff does the requisite Nicholson
impersonation -- "`Glad to have you on board.' And he was immediately
normal with me.
"I thought he was really kind to me, and it allowed me to act with
him, because it was pretty scary and nerve-racking. But we just got in
there, and jammed hard."
Nicholson and Dorff got out there and had some fun, too, according to the
Miami media reports of their nocturnal wanderings.
Dorff smiles as he takes a drag from his cigarette. "Like I said, I
would've paid Jack," he says.
Not that Dorff worked for free. In fact, his price tag per movie is going
up, "although I've never let money get in the way of something I've
wanted to do."
Dorff says that he's also proud of the fact that he's never regretted
decisions he's made to pass on films he decided weren't appropriate.
"I'm really glad I waited," confides Dorff. "I know some
people who have gone crazy because they turn down roles, and the people
who take them over have become huge stars. Most of the time I've been
pretty accurate when I thought something wasn't going to work.
An example of a turn down? "Like Mad Love," he says, referring
to the Chris O'Donnell role in the Drew Barrymore Gen-X bomb. "I
really didn't understand that script."
But he did understand the motivation. "The movie studios like
obvious, but I'm not into playing it."
THE STEPHEN DORFF FILE
BORN: L.A. Quit school to work as an actor,
but says he has his high school credits.
ROLE HE WANTED: Auditioned for To Wong Foo, made the short list,
but not the final one.
ROLE HE ALMOST WANTED: Dorff passed on a part in Titanic, a James
Cameron movie which is allegedly going to be the most expensive movie ever
made.
"I was doing it for a while, but it got to be a complicated
situation." |
 
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