Do we like Steven Strait?
Our score: 6 out of 10. Clean on harm and conduct, but there's little on the record about causes or charity, so we can't push it higher.
Steven Strait started as a teenage model and acting student before the screen came calling. Reports on his career run from a run of films in his twenties to the TV work he's best known for now. He's a working actor and singer rather than a headline magnet, which is partly why the file is so quiet.
His breakout TV gig was the Syfy-then-Amazon space saga The Expanse, where he played James Holden. He talked about the character as an idealist who matures over time and a hero who often chooses not to kill. That reads as a bloke who thought hard about the good guy he was playing.
On the harm check, the cupboard is bare in a good way. We searched his name against LGBTQ+ and trans issues, women, climate, vaccines, migrants and politics and found no statements, posts, donations or campaigns from him on any of it. His recent work, including a guest run on NBC's Chicago Fire as Flynn Calhoun, is mainstream network TV, and nothing in it pointed at a worrying crowd.
We also checked the legal side and found no convictions, lawsuits or credible allegations against him in established news sources. In a 2012 chat about Magic City he said what he related to most in his character was his loyalty. It's a small thing, but it fits the pattern of an actor who has kept his head down and his reputation intact.
The good stuff we can verify is mostly about the fans. At Dragon Con in 2022 he credited fans with saving The Expanse and told them they got to finish the show because of them. We found no charity work or cause-based advocacy from him, so this is goodwill rather than a record of giving. The 2021 sci-fi project Five Below, which he was announced to star in, has no clouds over it that we could see.
So: would we support him? Yes. Nothing harmful, nothing dodgy, and a good rapport with fans. The gap is that we found little about what he stands for beyond the screen, which holds the score at a solid middle rather than the top shelf.