Stelio Savante (born April 24, 1970) is best known for his roles as a
South African journalist in the political thriller Infidel, a
Portuguese mayor in the Hawaiian drama Running for Grace, a rogue
policeman in the South African epic drama Colors of Heaven, and a
South African specialist in the popular video game Call of Duty: Black
Ops 4. In 2007 he became the first male South African-born Screen
Actors Guild award nominee for his recurring role on Ugly Betty.
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.
South African journalist in the political thriller Infidel, a
Portuguese mayor in the Hawaiian drama Running for Grace, a rogue
policeman in the South African epic drama Colors of Heaven, and a
South African specialist in the popular video game Call of Duty: Black
Ops 4. In 2007 he became the first male South African-born Screen
Actors Guild award nominee for his recurring role on Ugly Betty.
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.
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