He is best known for his roles in Black Hawk Down (as Medal of Honor recipient Randy Shughart) and The Fast and the Furious as Leon.
He went on to learn Kickboxing, Jeet Kune Do, Boxing, and eventually earned a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Chris Lisciandro.
He has released nine albums: Bombthreat: Before She Blows and Fly and Lick My Neck Good Sleep with his former band, and Can You Hear Me Now?, La Luna Del Diablo Blanco, Soulcrusher, The War of Art, Close to Extinction, War Horse and White Light with Operator band.
Strong stars in Sinners & Saints, a New Orleans-based police thriller featuring Sean Patrick Flanery and Tom Berenger released in 2012.
2010 marked his return to the screen, starring in Sinners and Saints, an action-thriller film, as Detective Sean Riley.