Stielstra moved to NYC after college, where he acted in two films on "Saturday Night Live" during the 1993 TV season, "Your Last Day" and "Just Married", both directed by Jennifer Meyer. Following a move to Los Angeles, he endured background work in projects as diverse as "Boogie Nights" and "Saved By The Bell" until landing a line in the Tom Cruise film, "Jerry Maguire". In between movies, he performed for children and directed his own grotesque crime comedies ("Less Human Than Human"). Stielstra also performed in the madness that was the shocking punk band The Distortionists for 2 years. In 2010, Stielstra starred in "The Scarlet Worm". Stielstra also composed the film's soundtrack. The movie co-starred spaghetti western veterans Dan van Husen and Montgomery Ford, and won critical acclaim in Europe and America. Fangoria magazine called it, "Absolutely great--moody, rough, and controversial". In 2012, Stielstra moved to Italy, where he narrated the Mike Malloy documentary, "Eurocrime! The Cop & Gangster Films that Ruled the 70s". This documentary about the crime films of the Italian 1970s features such luminaries as Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, and Henry Silva. It received a rave write-up in Variety magazine and enjoyed its premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, February 24th, 2014. In 2013, Stielstra appeared in the western, "Six Bullets to Hell", in Almeria, Spain. This western led to the PBS film "The Mona Lisa Myth" playing Niccolo' Macchiavelli. In 2014, he starred in the apocalyptic zombie film "Anger of the Dead" followed by "Zombie Massacre 2". The punk rock comedy "Excretion:The Shocking True Story of The Football Moms", written, directed, and starring Stielstra, will hit screens in 2016. Stielstra has provided soundtracks for over 20 films through his company Depth Charge Productions. He also performs in the punk rock band The Football Moms. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gus Benedict

Is Dutch, German, and Irish.