Steven Bradford Culp (born
December 3,
1955) is an
American actor.
Biography
Early life
Culp was born in
La Jolla,
California to a naval officer father. During his childhood, his parents divorced and his mother,
Ohio-born Mary Ann "Anjo" Joseph,
[Mary J. Grabinsky] re-married to John Raymond Grabinsky. Culp attended
First Colonial High School in Virginia. He graduated from the
College of William and Mary in 1978 with a major in English literature
[Steven Culp Bio - Steven Culp Biography - Steven Culp Stories] and also studied at the
University of Exeter in
England.
Career
Steven can be seen in one of his earliest roles as Robert Campbell in
Jason Goes to Hell (1993). He plays a reporter looking into the Jason murders. Culp is known for his recurring roles as
CIA Agent
Clayton Webb on
JAG (1997–2004) and
Major Hayes on
Star Trek: Enterprise (2003–2004). He had the unusual misfortune to have both of those characters killed off in the same week, in the shows' season finales (though Webb turned up very much alive in the subsequent season premiere of JAG). During the year 2004, Steven became the first actor to appear as a recurring character in four television series simultaneously:
The West Wing,
Star Trek: Enterprise,
JAG and
ER.
