Stephen Ford is a Swedish-American actor and director. After acting in shows like Teen Wolf, Switched At Birth and Private Practice he began his own production company, Ascndr. His career started at a young age when he began doing commercials and creating short films with his neighborhood friends.

As his family was in the military, he moved around the United States a lot as a kid, growing up in Alaska, Alabama, California, Kansas and Florida. After relocating to Los Angeles as a teenager, he skipped around various Disney, Fox and Nickelodeon sitcoms. This led him to starring in the American adaptation of Kamen Rider Ryuki as the lead of CW's Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.

Since then he has appeared in various indie films and hit television shows like ABC's Private Practice and Desperate Housewives, MTV's Teen Wolf and Freeform's Switch At Birth.

He took a break from acting to focus on directing in 2014 following some life-changing events. When he returned to the industry, he partnered with the Warner Brothers YouTube company Machinima as their lead narrative show runner. After which he created his own production company Ascndr with the motto: "Low budgets, High Concepts."