Steven Strait

Steven Strait is an American actor and singer born on March 23, 1986. He is widely recognized for his starring roles as Warren Peace in the 2005 adventure film Sky High, Caleb Danvers in the 2006 supernatural thriller The Covenant, and James Holden in the science fiction television series The Expanse.

Strait was born and raised in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, to parents Jean and Richard Dyer Strait. He is of Dutch and Italian ancestry. During his youth, he attended the Village Community School and Xavier High School. He began taking acting lessons at eleven years old, initially starting in performing classes at his school, where he discovered his passion for acting following his first live performance. He subsequently trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Black Nexxus Acting Studio in New York City. During his teenage years, he also worked as a model for magazines such as L'uomo Vogue, Spoon, Details, Surface, Hollister Co., and Pop, collaborating with photographers Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Ellen von Unwerth.

In 2004, Strait relocated to California to pursue acting professionally. He secured an acting job following his very first audition and made his feature film debut in 2005's Sky High as the teenage superhero Warren Peace. For the film's soundtrack, he recorded a cover of The Fixx's song "One Thing Leads to Another." He followed this with a lead role in the film Undiscovered, which focused on aspiring young singers and actors, and contributed seven songs to its soundtrack.

Strait's film career continued with the release of The Covenant in September 2006, in which he played Caleb Danvers. In March 2008, he starred opposite Camilla Belle in 10,000 BC, portraying D'Leh, a prehistoric mammoth hunter who journeys across unknown lands to save his people. That same year, he played Michael Colson in the film Stop-Loss. In 2009, he appeared in City Island as Tony, the son of the main character played by Andy Garcia.

In November 2010, Strait guest-starred as fugitive Jackson Cooper on the NBC series Chase. He went on to co-star in the Starz television series Magic City from 2012 to 2013, playing the son of Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character in a drama set around 1950s Miami Beach mobsters. Also in 2012, he starred as Freddy in the sci-fi thriller film After. In 2014, Strait was cast in his prominent lead role as James Holden on the science fiction series The Expanse, which aired from 2015 to 2022 across SyFy and Amazon Prime Video.

In his personal life, Strait was married to actress Lynn Collins from December 23, 2007, until their divorce in 2013, following four years of dating prior to their marriage. In 2019, he married model Daria Zhemkova.