Stephen Blackehart

Stephen T Blackehart born December 1 1967 is an American character actor author and producerBlackehart began his artistic education at the University of South Florida under BAFTAwinning character actor Paul Massie before moving overseas to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art While at LAMDA in addition to the normal studyandperformance curriculum Blackehart studied swordsmanship under renowned fight masters Rodney Cottier and John Waller and went on to attain an advanced certification from the Society of British Fight Directors now called the BASSC Upon returning to the US he became an active member of Manhattans Westside Repertory Theatre at the time the oldest classical theatre company in the city and by day studied at HB Studio under Uta Hagen and with character actor William Hickey Blackehart first became known for playing Benny Que in the cult classic film Tromeo and Juliet though he has since acted in a mixture of Bmovies Retro Puppet Master The Land That Time Forgot and mainstream films many of which are associated with James Gunn The Belko Experiment Super Guardians of the Galaxy The Suicide Squad whom he met while working on TromeoIn addition to his film work Blackehart has acted in TV series including Greys Anatomy Star Trek Deep Space Nine and The Orville He was a regular on the BBCs The Tromaville Cafe where he originated the role of Felix the French TricksterIn 2004 Blackehart produced Jenna Fischers mockumentary film LolliLove It was subsequently picked up for distribution by Troma and garnered DVD Talks distinction as a Collectors Series disc immediately upon its video release It was also voted 2 by the editors of Amazon in their list of Best DVDs of the YearComedy and completely sold out of all copies within the first day of releaseIn 2008 and 2009 he produced the comedy web series PG Porn and Humanzee for filmmaker James Gunn In November 2014 he published a collection of novellas entitled A Stranger to the Darklands and Other Tales Blackehart is from Hells Kitchen New York It has been reported that Blackehart was born as Stefano Brando and is the son of late actor Marlon Brando though Blackehart denies that he is related Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Blackehart licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia