Stephen Dunham, born in Boston, Massachusetts, was an actor. He portrayed Henderson in the first film of the The Mummy trilogy. Dunham is the middle of three children, his father being a business consultant and his mother a real estate agent. Taking to acting in his high school years, Dunham continued on to study in the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theatre, and attended the Actors Studio, spending his college summers performing improvisational comedy with Boston’s On The Spot Players.