Steve Damstra Is a Musician – Facts about Paget Brewster’s Husband

While his wife has made a name for herself in front of the camera as an actress, Steve Damstra has found success behind it as a composer. It’s been nearly a decade since the couple said “I do,” and during an interview, Paget Brewster praised her partner for being a “great” husband.

While Steve Damstra may commonly be known as Paget Brewster’s husband, he has also established himself as a musician and a composer, with an impressive list of films under his belt.

The artist has also worked with his wife — best known for her roles in “Criminal Minds” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” — who lent her vocals to one of her husband’s songs and revealed that she and her husband have discussed starting a musical duo together.

Damstra is a songwriter, composer, and musician with a career in the music department of films that dates back to the late 2000s. In 2008, he was part of the additional crew for Billy Bob Thornton’s movie “The Informers,” and more recently, Damstra served as a composer on the horror “Excision.”

However, Damstra’s career in film has not stopped him from making his own music, as his wife revealed that they released a song on Spotify — “Drove To The Ocean” — to pass the time during lockdown.

Brewster added that the couple had been playing around with the idea of starting a musical duo together and that Damstra had written “a bunch of songs. However, the actress admitted:

“We actually disagree over how vocals should sound… It’s not worth the marital spat to record songs. This is so embarrassing. So, we’ve put that to the side for now.”

In 2014, Damstra and Brewster said “I do” in front of friends and family, and her “Criminal Minds” — also co-starring Shemar Moore and Daniel Henney — co-star and his long-time friend Matthew Gray Gubler married the couple.

“Had the unique pleasure of getting to officiate the marriage of 2 of my best friends and now I have minister fever,” Gubler tweeted. Brewster also turned to social media to thank her co-star, writing, “Thank you @GUBLERNATION for marrying me to the wonderful @stevedamstra!!”

Damstra and Gubler’s friendship goes as far back as 2010, as in April of that year, the actor humorously tweeted, “Jaffe Zinn is walking around my house like a crazed banshee while Steve Damstra tries to calm him with cello music.”

In 2020, Brewster opened up about her marriage and expressed how lucky she was to have a husband like Damstra. Although, during an interview, the actress joked that her husband was not as inclined in the kitchen as he was with music, she had nothing but kind words to say about their marriage.

“He’s a great husband. He’s not messy; he’s not gross. Like, I’m very lucky. He does half the work. I do half the work. We have a great marriage,” Brewster sweetly shared.