Steve Sandvoss (born June 23, 1980 in New York City) is an American actor.
Stephen James Sandvoss grew up in suburban New York City. He attended the Saint Thomas Choir School in Manhattan and The Taft School in Connecticut where he was a member of the rowing team. He went on to study at Harvard University and graduated, cum laude, in 2002.
At Harvard, he was active in the artistic community, pursuing amateur photography, studying poetry and American prose, and often choosing edgier roles in student-written plays as well as in such classics as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar and Bertolt Brecht's Galileo and Ba'al.
In addition, Sandvoss directed readings of his own work at Harvard and wrote criticism and essays for several undergraduate periodicals. Steve was also a member of the prestigious a cappella ensemble, the Harvard Opportunes. During this time, Sandvoss commuted frequently to New York City for professional acting and modeling gigs.
Sandvoss's break as an actor came when he landed the role of a football star competing against Will Estes in the NBC drama series American Dreams. His other television roles include appearances on Dr. Vegas, Nip/Tuck, The Inside, Cold Case, E-Ring and Grey's Anatomy.
Sandvoss made his feature-film debut in the 2003 independent film Latter Days. His second feature film was 2005's Rumor Has It, starring Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Mark Ruffalo and Shirley MacLaine.
Sandvoss was cast in the short film Waning Moon, directed by Luca Colombo, which debuted in August 2006 at a Swiss Film Festival in Lugano. The film went on to many other festivals and won "Best Film Screenplay" at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in 2007. In June 2006, Sandvoss began filming the horror film Buried Alive, in the role of "Danny". The film was released on DVD in October 2007. In late 2006, it was announced that Steve would reunite with Director/Writer C. Jay Cox in a supporting role in the film Kiss The Bride, due to be released in 2008.
In May 2007, Steve took on the role of Mason Michael Finch in the indie film Fling (formerly titled Lie to Me), filmed on location in Kansas City, Missouri. The film had its premiere on April 26, 2008 at the Newport Beach Film Festival during the same time frame that Steve was filming a pilot for the Sci-Fi Channel, "Revolution" to be broadcast later in 2008.
Sandvoss currently resides in Los Angeles where he and his older brother Peter Sandvoss operate "Beep Box Productions" and manage a strategic partnership with Hyperion Pictures.
