For eleven seasons, Stephen Collins starred as Rev. Eric Camden on the longest-running family drama in TV history, 7th Heaven, currently airing on The Hallmark Channel.  He’s now in the middle of filming three episodes of ABC’s hit drama, Private Practice, which will air starting this month. 

 Numerous feature films include The First Wives Club as Diane Keaton's philandering husband, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Brewster's Millions, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (he was, very briefly, Captain of the Enterprise), the classic All the President's Men, Blood Diamond, and Because I Said So, again opposite Diane Keaton.

On series television, he’s starred in Tattingers, Working It Out with Jane Curtin, and Tales of the Gold Monkey, where he met his wife of twenty-four years, Faye Grant.  Eight miniseries leads include Inside the Third Reich with John Gielgud and Blythe Danner, Chiefs with Charlton Heston and Billy Dee Williams, and opposite Ann-Margret and Claudette Colbert in The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, for which he was Emmy nominated.  He played J.F.K. in A Woman Named Jackie, which picked up the Emmy for Best Miniseries, and was recently just seen on Law & Order: SVU  and the Hallmark Channel’s film, Every Second Counts.

Stephen was in the original Broadway productions of Michael Weller's Moonchildren and Terrence McNally's The Ritz, and created roles in the original New York productions of Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy opposite Sigourney Weaver, and A.R. Gurney's The Old Boy.

His play Super Sunday was produced at The Williamstown Theater Festival and one of his two published novels, Eye Contact, was a best seller for Bantam Books.  A short story, Water Hazard, was recently published by Warner Books in a suspense anthology, Murder in the Rough.

In 2005, Stephen wrote and directed a short film, Next of Kin, and won Grand Prize for Directorial Debut at the Rhode Island Film Festival.  Next of Kin was also an official selection at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival, The Palm Springs Festival of Short Films, The Austin Film Festival, The Williamstown Film Festival, and Toronto’s Reel-To-Reel Festival.

Stephen occasionally appears live with his retro bar band, The 7th Band.  Their second album, The Hits of Rick Nelson, was released on The Gold Label with all profits going to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

Stephen was a founder, with Christopher Reeve, Ron Silver, Alec Baldwin, and Susan Sarandon, of The Creative Coalition, a thriving New York-based political advocacy group for people in the arts.