De'voreaux White (born Devorea W. Sefas; August 6, 1965) is an American actor.
1970
He started his career as a child actor in the late 1970s, and may be best known for his role in Die Hard (1988) as the young limousine driver, Argyle.
De'voreaux White was born in Los Angeles County, California.
He began acting professionally at the age of ten.
1980
His first bookings were The Jeffersons, Little House on the Prairie, and 1980's The Blues Brothers (as a would-be-shoplifter who is thwarted by a gun-toting Ray Charles).
White also played one of the boys who attempt to keep a baseball in the Neil Simon movie Max Dugan Returns.
1984
In 1984, he played Wylie - who was lynched for accidentally shooting a white sheriff - in Places in the Heart.
1988
The movie received notice at the Academy Awards; White credits this role for providing an opportunity to read with producer Joel Silver and star Bruce Willis for Die Hard (1988).
White filmed his scenes with Willis over a period of three months; some of their dialogue was improvised on the set.
1989
White also starred in the television series Head of the Class as Aristotle McKenzie, and co-starred as a suicidal misfit who befriends Rick Schroder in 1989's Out on the Edge.
1992
In 1992, White played the role of Ice-T's drug-addicted younger brother in Walter Hill's Trespass.
2000
White appeared in the 2000 drama Shadow Hours.
2019
In 2019, White set up his own company in California.
By then, he worked in the clinical staff of a substance-abuse rehabilitation facility.
In 2019, White resided in Newport Beach, California.
His original last name, Sefas, is Ethiopian; after his mother died, his maternal grandparents with the surname White adopted him.
2020
White reprised his role as Argyle from Die Hard, with Willis, in a commercial for Advance Auto Parts' DieHard brand of car batteries in October 2020.