Born in Philadelphia PA, Steve spent the first 14 years of his 25-year police career working undercover. He began his acting career in 2004 at the age of 54. He says, "I saw a film where an actor playing a cop sits in a diner slugging down donuts and coffee and I thought, 'Damn, that's not all that different from what I did as a real cop. Steve lives in southern New Jersey with wife, Debi and has two grown children - Christian and Shanna.