Biography
Stielstra moved to NYC after college, where he acted on "Saturday Night Live" during the 1993 TV season. In Los Angeles, he endured background work in "Boogie Nights" and "Saved By The Bell" until landing a line in the Tom Cruise film, "Jerry Maguire". In 2012, Stielstra starred in the western "The Scarlet Worm" while narrating and co-scoring the Mike Malloy documentary, "Eurocrime!", a documentary about the poliziotteschi crime genre. It received a rave write-up in Variety magazine and premiered in Hollywood, 2014. Stielstra moved to Italy in 2012. He appeared in westerns ("Six Bullets to Hell", "The Price of Death", and "The Bounty Killer")--all shot in Spain--and contributed to their soundtracks. He played Macchiavelli in the PBS film "The Mona Lisa Myth" and worked 3 seasons of the Disney TV show "Penny on MARS". He additionally completed several horror films, including "The Curse of the Blind Dead", where he fought the Italian Sean Connery: Fabio Testi. The punk-rock comedy "Excretion: The Shocking True Story of The Football Moms" (2019) and its upcoming sequel "Rock Concert", written, directed, and starring Stielstra, feature his music and animation. In between film and TV work, he plays guitar for children's storytimes in libraries and continues directing grotesque political comedies ("Weber Falls, USA" can be seen on Youtube). Stielstra acted in the mini-series "Catch-22", "American Night", with John Rhys Meyers and Emile Hirsch, and he played Ciccio in the controversial Warner Brothers feature "Batgirl". In 2022 he was on the RAI 1 detective show "Commissario Ricciardi" - Stagione 2, last year the Peppino Di Capri biopic "Champagne," and this year he appears in the cult-shocker "Happy Hour at the Lost Cause". Stielstra has provided soundtracks for over 20 films. He has also performed in the punk bands The Distortionists, Metal Chick Turned Mother, Milk and Pills, and now: Backdoor Cutter.
