A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Steve John Ward
Steven Ward
Birthplace:
Johannesburg, South Africa
Born:
June 2, 1990
Steven is a South African actor best known for his role as Dracule Mihawk in the Netflix live action adaption of One Piece - the best-selling manga series in history. Having completed a Bachelor in Live Performance from AFDA, as well as training with several local and international coaches, Steven has appeared in a number of theatre and film productions including, Barefoot in the Park, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Day We Didn't Meet, and SAFTA award-winning film, From a House on Willow Street. Making his television debut in the 2010 Amstel Class Act competition, placing 7th in South Africa, Steven has appeared in numerous commercials and is a regular on television screens worldwide, having played characters in local Telenovela's like Legacy; and international roles in Strike Back and Syfy's Vagrant Queen. Steven's dexterity as an actor saw him cast in South Africa's first commissioned Netflix series, Queen Sono, portraying the role of a Russian mafia gangster, posing as a British philanthropist. In 2024, we saw Steven starring alongside Charlotte Hope in the drama Catch Me A Killer. The multi-talented Steven is highly sought-after in the voice over booth, having worked with numerous commercial clients in South Africa. Steven's voice brings a rich nuance to any script. Behind the scenes Steven worked as a Casting Associate/Director for 10+ years giving him invaluable knowledge of what goes into the process of casting an actor and thus helping him hone his own skills for all his on-camera endeavours.
Casting Associate:
2017 Van der Merwe
Casting Director:
2017 Van der Merwe
2025 Hunting Jessica Brok
Casting Associate:
2016 No Man Left Behind
Casting Director:
2007 Banged Up Abroad
2014 Dominion
2016 American Monster
2016 No Man Left Behind
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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
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Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.