Stephen Wozniak (actor)
Stephen Wozniak (born January 22, 1971, Dover, New Hampshire) is an American film and television actor and producer. He is the founder of the Beverly Hills, California feature film production company Inevitable Film Group and the branded entertainment production company Hazmat Pictures.
Early life
Stephen was born in Dover, New Hampshire to John Wozniak, an aeronautical and mechanical engineer, and Margaret Wozniak. He has an older brother and sister. He briefly moved with his family to Centerville, Virginia before settling in Columbia, Maryland, close to where his father worked for the The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Stephen graduated with a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. He also attended The Johns Hopkins University. Before and after graduating, he attended acting classes and soon afterwards began a professional theatre career in Metropolitan Washington, D.C., variously performing at The Studio Theatre, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Theatre Project and other performance venues. After spending some time New York City, Stephen subsequently moved to Los Angeles, California.
Noted performances
Wozniak played a leading role as wayward sociopath ‘Frankie,’ across from Kevin Gage and Sage Stallone in the 2005 controversial true-crime feature film Chaos, re-make of Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left. (“I cannot ignore it, nor can I deny that it affected me strongly. The movie works.” – Roger Ebert, “Chaos is well-shot and convincingly acted.” – TV Guide).
Stephen also played Jesus Christ in the controversial, national, primetime, double-Emmy Award-nominated History Channel special, Time Machine: Beyond The Da Vinci Code, which challenged Dan Brown’s best-selling historical novel, The Da Vinci Code. The program was produced by Tom Quinn and directed by Will Ehbrecht and premiered in high-definition television format in January 2005.
Stephen played 1960’s rock n’ roll singer Mitch Ryder, of The Detroit Wheels, on the NBC drama American Dreams controversial season one finalé, “City On Fire,” which also featured special guest star singer Kelly Rowland of the popular R&B singing trio, Destiny’s Child.
He also played 1970's rock music visionary singer David Bowie as his seminal stage character Ziggy Stardust in the live stage show And Ziggy Played Guitar in Los Angeles during the early 2000s, backed by Oingo Boingo band member Mike Bacich and Mitchell Sigman of the band Berlin.
Other work
Other credits include: The Discovery Channel-Animal Planet original feature film Hope Ranch; The Eliminator; the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “Two Days and Two Nights”, directed by Star Trek: The Next Generation star Michael Dorn; the controversial 20th Century Fox historical feature film, Color of the Cross; ABC’s late-night comedy talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!; and the CBS police drama, The District, among others.
Stephen’s professional theatre career includes roles in such plays as The Trip to Bountiful, The Nutcracker, In the Shadow of the Glen, Gerald Moon's Corpse!, Noon by Terrence McNally, Becket by Jean Anouilh, and Nothing Sacred by George F. Walker, among others.
Stephen has also done work as an actor in national commercial campaigns, music videos, industrials, voice-overs, performance art, museum films, live music shows, public television projects and as a radio host on Los Angeles public radio station KXLU. He is also an artist; a writer of fiction and screenplays, as well as a director of music videos.
Stephen works and lives in Los Angeles.
Roles
Feature film and television episodes:
- Statistics (2006) — Steve Varner
- Color of the Cross (2006) — Avraham
- Time Machine: Beyond The Da Vinci Code (2005) — Jesus Christ
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2005) — Jesus
- Chaos (2005) — Frankie
- Hope Ranch (2004) — Waxie
- The Eliminator (2004) — Rocker
- Exorcism (2004) — Jack
- The District (2003) — Stan Montrose
- American Dreams (2003) — Mitch Ryder
- Cold Harbor (2003) — Pastor Tompkins
- My First Time (2003) — Candy, Russ
- Star Trek: Enterprise (2002) — Latia
- Scarecrow (2002) — Ken
- Psycho Beach Party (2000) — Johnny
- The Art of a Bullet (1999) — Officer Babbage