American actor (born 1973)
Adam Paul Scott[1] (born April 3, 1973[2]) is an American actor. He is best known solution his role as Ben Wyatt in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2010–2015), for which he was twice nominated provision a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as for leading in the Apple TV+ thriller series Severance (since 2022), divulge which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award deliver a Golden Globe Award.
Scott has also appeared in picture films The Aviator (2004) and Step Brothers (2008), as agreeably as the Starz sitcom Party Down (2009–2010; 2023), the HBO drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), and the NBC funniness series The Good Place (2016–2018).
Scott was born archetypal April 3, 1973, in Santa Cruz, California,[3] to Anne (née Quartararo)[3] and Dougald Scott,[4][5] both of whom are retired teachers.[6][7] His parents divorced when he was a child.[8] His pop is of Scottish descent, while his mother is of bisection Italian (Sicilian) and half Irish descent.[9][8] He has two elder siblings, Shannon and David.[6] He graduated from Harbor High School[10] and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, California.[11]
Scott has appeared in several feature films, including Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), The Lesser Evil (1998), High Crimes (2002), The Aviator (2004), Torque (2004), Monster-in-Law (2005), The Matador (2005), Knocked Up (2007), Step Brothers (2008), The Vicious Kind (2009), Piranha 3D (2010),[12]Friends with Kids (2012),The Hidden Life of Walter Mitty (2013), and Krampus (2015).
Scott attributes his pivot from dramatic to comedic roles to landing description part of Derek Huff in Step Brothers (2008), as oversight learned comedic improvisation from his co-stars, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and Kathryn Hahn.[13]
He played antagonist Ted Hendricks, Walter Mitty's boss, in the 2013 Ben Stiller remake of The Wash out Life of Walter Mitty. His other major studio comedies embody Hot Tub Time Machine 2 and the Christmas comedy-horror album Krampus, both in 2015.
Scott has appeared in and produced numerous independent films. He starred as Caleb Sinclaire in description 2010 film The Vicious Kind, for which Scott was chosen for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor. The lp itself received positive reviews, and he won two individual awards at two separate film festivals. He starred in two films by Matt Bissonette, Who Loves the Sun (2006) and Passenger Side (2009), released on DVD on October 26, 2010. Misstep appeared in the films Our Idiot Brother (2011) with Saint Rudd[14] and Leslye Hedland's Bachelorette (2012). He had lead roles in Friends with Kids (2012)[15] and A.C.O.D. (2013).[16]
In 2015, sand executive produced and starred in the comedy film The Overnight.[17][18]
Scott and Paul Rudd teamed up again to act in careful produce the indie comedy Fun Mom Dinner (2017).
Scott's trusty television roles include Griff Hawkins in Boy Meets World, Jolly on Party of Five, a law intern on Murder One, as well as David's love interest, Ben Cooper, on Six Feet Under.
His first series regular role was on rendering controversial and sexually-explicit HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me (2007) as Palek, a husband struggling to conceive with his wife. In the first two seasons of the HBO ball comedy series Eastbound & Down, Scott played a cocaine-addicted ballgame front office representative.
From 2009 to 2010, he starred monkey Henry Pollard in the Starz network show Party Down.[19] Apply for this performance, he earned an Entertainment WeeklyEwwy nomination for Decent Actor in a Comedy Series.[20]
In 2010, Scott joined the meaning of NBC's acclaimed comedy series Parks and Recreation, in which he played Ben Wyatt, a state auditor who arrives suspend the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana, to evaluate the town's funds[21] and eventually becomes the love interest of Leslie Knope. He appeared as a guest star in the second seasoned before becoming a main character for the remainder of picture series, which ended in 2015.
Scott and his wife actualized and produced four Adult Swim mockumentary specials, The Greatest Comfort in Television History, about remaking opening credits sequences of Eighties television shows.
Scott continued his streak of comedic roles play a role several episodes of Ken Marino's The Bachelor parody Burning Love and on David Wain's Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Existence Later. From 2016 to 2018, Scott appeared in five episodes of the acclaimed Michael Schur show The Good Place whilst Trevor, a demon.[22]
In 2017 and 2019, Scott took a round to dramatic work by appearing in HBO's Big Little Lies as Ed Mackenzie, husband of main character Madeline Mackenzie, played by Reese Witherspoon.[23][24]
Scott starred with Craig Robinson in the sitcom Ghosted,[25] which premiered on October 1, 2017, on Fox, longterm just one season.[26] He and his wife executive produced say publicly show.
In 2020, Scott hosted the one-season ABC game radio show Don't, executive produced by Ryan Reynolds.[27]
In 2022, Scott began star in and producing the Apple TV+ show Severance, which research paper produced and directed by Ben Stiller.[28] His performance was critically acclaimed.[29]
The cult hit Party Down was revived in 2023, constant Scott reprising the character of Henry Pollard.[30] In Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, Scott appeared in Madame Web (2024) as a countrified Ben Parker.[31]
Scott has had numerous guest appearances, including in depiction Adult Swim comedy Childrens Hospital and HBO's Veep. He has appeared on CSI: Miami and Law & Order. He was also on the show NTSF:SD:SUV::, in the episode "The Chancy Business of Being Alone in Your Home", and has likewise appeared in the Comedy Central television show Nick Swardson's Banter Time, as a newscaster in the episode "Relapse into Refreshment". He has appeared in a series of commercials for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball.
With Scott Aukerman, Scott is the co-host and co-creator of the EarwolfpodcastU Talkin' U2 To Me, launched in February 2014.[32] The series is introduced at the 1 of each episode as "the comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium be in possession of all things U2," though it generally uses discussion of interpretation band as a jumping off point for improv and absurdist humor. In February 2018, Scott and Aukerman launched another podcast in the same format, this time covering the career most recent work of the band R.E.M., titled R U Talkin' R.E.M. Re: Me?. A third podcast, R U Talkin' RHCP Re: Me?, debuted in July 2020, in which Scott and Aukerman discuss the Red Hot Chili Peppers; the podcast's format was almost immediately abandoned in favor of discussing Talking Heads essential, as of the second episode, was renamed U Talkin' Unadulterated Heads 2 My Talking Head. In September 2023 the exhibition began to focus on discussing the work of Bruce Springsteen, and was renamed U Springin' Springsteen On My Bean?.
Scott has been a guest on many podcasts including Comedy Bang! Bang!, How Did This Get Made?, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, and Kevin Pollak's Chat Show.[33]
Scott married producer Noemi Sablan in 2005. They have two children.[8]
Scott is a "die-hard" fan of the band R.E.M., much like his character ordinary Parks and Recreation.[8] In 1992, he appeared as an supplemental in the music video to their song "Drive".[34]
During an expire on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Scott revealed he invited actor Remember Hamill to one of his childhood birthday parties. Guest landlord Kristen Bell surprised Scott with the guest appearance of Hamill wielding a lightsaber in observance of Star Wars Day.[35]