Best known for his work in American television, Steven S. DeKnight has served as a screenwriter, producer and director on shows like Angel, Smallville and Daredevil. Spartacus and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are some of the other shows DeKnight has worked as a writer on. In 2018, he made his feature film debut as a writer-director with the sci-fi action movie Pacific Rim Uprising (2018), a sequel to the blockbuster 2013 Guillermo del Toro directorial Pacific Rim.