De'voreaux White

Actor

Birthday August 6, 1965

Birth Sign Leo

Birthplace Los Angeles County, California

Age 58 years old

Nationality United States

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1965

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.