Steve Dakota

Steven John Janosco grew up in Lakewood with his parents and older sibling who, "California dreamin', on such a winter's day," moved from Minneapolis to Los Angeles in 1950. His father, John, was a union organizer, his mother, Bea, was an English teacher, pianist, and published poet, and his sister, Judy, was an actress in high school. The Golden State native is known for his work on To Serve Ketchup (2007), Butterscotch (2010), Dare to Dream (2010), and To Pierce an Angel's Wings (2017). With his Danube Blue 1965 Chevelle Malibu SS, he made his acting debut as a shade tree mechanic in 1986. Filmed in Sacramento, the title of the independent movie is lost to the ages. He appeared as a Trinity Control Center Technician in the TV mini-series War and Remembrance (1988) at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert. And in 1990 he played a California Gold Rush Prospector in Something in the Valley, a musical staged near the California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento. Following a 15-year hi