Steven Strait is an American actor, fashion model, and rock singer. He was born and raised in Greenwich Village, New York. Strait attended Xavier High School and took classes at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. During his teen years, he modeled for L'uomo Vogue, Spoon magazine, Details, Surface, Hollister Co., and Pop magazine, and worked with photographers Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Ellen von Unwerth. Weber featured Strait in his 2001 book, All-American: Short Stories.

Strait began taking acting lessons at the age of eleven. In the sixth grade, he began to take performing classes at the Village Community School. Although forced into it at first, he found a passion for acting after he performed live for the first time. He has worked at the Stella Adler Acting Studio and the Black Nexxus Acting Studio in New York City.

In 2004, after graduating from Xavier High School, he moved to California to pursue a career in acting. After his first audition, he received an acting job, and in 2005, he debuted in his first movie, Sky High, where he played a teenage superhero named Warren Peace. He covered The Fixx song "One Thing Leads to Another" for the film's soundtrack.

His next movie appearance was alongside Ashlee Simpson and Pell James in Undiscovered, a movie about young actors in the entertainment industry who want to become stars. In 2006 he starred as Caleb Danvers in The Covenant, a horror/thriller film which opened on September 8, 2006. Strait appeared opposite Camilla Bellein 10,000 BC, a film about pre-historic Earth, released in March 2008. He plays a young mammoth hunter D'Leh as he travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from extinction.

He appears in the 2008 movie Stop Loss as Michael Colson and is currently working on a movie named "City Island" in New York. He has just recently wrapped filming "Priest" with Gerard Butler

Regarding his music career, Strait started as the singer for Invidia, a death metal band from NYC. The band was composed of Riyaad Edoo (Ambient Death) along with Lukasz Gunia, Michael D'Andrilli (The Tribe), and Geoff Toelocca (The Tribe). Steve was asked to leave the band when his vocal style and performance didn’t fit anymore with the rest of the band. Strait later formed The Tribe with Michael. However, due to Strait's upcoming movie roles, the band has moved on without him and they are no longer working together. Steve, however, has signed to Lakeshore Records and is scheduled to record and release a full length solo album.