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Stepfanie Kramer (born August 6, 1956) is an American actress, writer, and singer/songwriter. She is probably best known for her role as the tough-minded detective, "Sgt. Dee Dee McCall," on the NBC TV series Hunter." She has been nominated for an Emmy in Special Class Programming and won the Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress Award, honored by the First Americans in the Arts organization in 1995, 2002 and 2003. Kramer was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She is part Native American from her mother`s side. Her family background is very artistic, as her father worked as a classically-trained violinist and her mother as a high-fashion model as well as an artist.

Kramer`s professional acting career started in the late 1970s, while she was still in school. She guest starred in several popular television shows, such as Starsky and Hutch, Dynasty, Bosom Buddies, and Knots Landing. She proved her comedy chops starring in the NBC Sitcom, "Got It Made," in 1983. Kramer`s big break came in 1984, when she landed a starring role in Hunter, the latest creation of television mogul Stephen J. Cannell. After a rough start, the show became an international hit, being broadcast for seven consecutive seasons. Kramer starred in six of them, a total of 130 episodes. In an interview with Jay Leno, in 1989, Kramer admitted that she had not believed the show would be as long-lived as it was.

On May 24, 1992, Kramer married Mark Richards. The couple divorced in February, 2001. Together they have a daughter, Lily Claire Richards, born in 1994. According to Stepfanie`s official website, her daughter is the greatest production she has ever been involved in.