Stephen “Steve-O” Glover made a name for himself as the frequently shirtless and always irreverent daredevil on MTV’s “Jackass” (MTV, 2000-02), parlaying his pop culture fame into his own spin-off and countless appearances on talk shows and reality shows. Born June 13, 1974 to an American mother and a Canadian father, Steve-O was raised in Brazil, Venezuela, Canada, Florida, and England due to his corporate executive father’s various positions. He was a skateboarder and general hellraiser as a teen, stealing a video camera from his father and hoping to launch a career as a stuntman by recording himself doing outrageously dangerous feats. When he shifted his focus to becoming a performer, he completed training at Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Florida, followed by several years of working as a clown on cruise ships and with a circus. Meanwhile, he continued to send homemade tapes of his stunts to entertainment venues and finally received some interest from editor Jeff Tremaine at the skateboarding magazine Big Brother. When Tremaine and Johnny Knoxville launched the MTV stunt show “Jackass” in 2000, they recruited fearless Steve-O to their team of unrepentantly immature daredevils.

When “Jackass” was cancelled in 2002, Steve-O and Chris Pontius were given their own spin-off “Wildboyz” (MTV, 2003-06), in which they built on their reputations by braving pranks and stunts performed with wild animals across the globe. Steve-O appeared in big screen versions of his first MTV series, “Jackass: The Movie” (2002) and “Jackass: Number 2” (2004) in between numerous run-ins with the law over disorderly conduct, obscenity and cocaine possession. He returned to the small screen with “Dr. Steve-O” (USA, 2007), a reality show where Steve-O sought to “toughen up” guys who needed it, but the following year – after a string of drunken talk show appearances that concerned even those used to Steve-O’s unpredictable and outrageous behavior – his close friends committed him to a mental health center where he admitted to drug and emotional problems and underwent lengthy treatment. He was noticeably absent from the public eye during 2008, but Steve-O reentered the reality arena the following year as a contestant on “Dancing with the Stars” (ABC, 2005- ) before hitting the big screen later that year in the sequel “Jackass 3” (2009).