Scott Bakula
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Born | Scott Stewart Bakula October 9, 1954 St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1986–present |
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Children | 4 |
Scott Stewart Bakula (/ˈbækjʊlə/; born October 9, 1954)[1] is an American actor known for his role as Sam Beckett on the television series Quantum Leap (for which he received four Emmy Award nominations and, in 1991, won a Golden Globe Award), for the role of Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise and currently portrays Special Agent Dwayne Cassius Pride on NCIS: New Orleans.
Bakula has also starred on the comedy-drama series Men of a Certain Age and guest-starred in seasons two and three of NBC's Chuck as the title character's father Stephen J. Bartowski. He also guest starred on HBO's Looking as entrepreneur Lynn.
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Early life
Bakula was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Sally (née Zumwinkel) and J. Stewart Bakula, a lawyer.[1][2][3] He has a younger brother and a younger sister.[4] His surname comes from partial Croatian ancestry.[2][5][6] He attended Jefferson College,[7][8] followed by the University of Kansas for a time, but left, saying,
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because I was offered a tour of Godspell, a national tour that was from St. Louis. I thought that sounded great and I went to my parents and I said I want to do this tour and they said go ahead, maybe it will get it out of your system. And you come back to school in a year or two, you come back. The tour was gonna start in August and the tour never started and school did, and then the tour fell apart and there I was sitting at home. So I was left holding the bag, basically, and then had to decide where to go from there. And I applied, was applying to other schools, I was gonna go to a Mormon theatrical kind of school and the more I looked at it more I spent time examining the school side of it. I just realized what I really needed to do was just pick up, pack up and go to New York.[4]
Career
Bakula moved to New York City in 1976, where he made his Broadway debut playing baseball legend Joe DiMaggio in Marilyn: An American Fable, and appeared in the well-received Off-Broadway production Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down; he would later appear in its Pasadena Playhouse production.[9] The success of Three Guys Off-Broadway brought him attention, and when his next show, the musical Nightclub Confidential, which co-starred his wife Krista Neumann, moved to Los Angeles, he moved there at the urging of his California agent, Maggie Henderson, and his New York agent, Jerry Hogan. As Bakula recalled in 2000,
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I call [Henderson] up and said I got a show, I'm gonna be out there, I'm coming out in January. So it'll work out because it's time for pilot season and I'll be doing something so people can come and see me. ... And then I coincidentally had done a Disney Sunday Night ABC movie that was gonna come out some time in the winter. It was the time to go. Came out here on New Year's Day, 1986. The show I did turned out to be a big hit out here. It got me a lot of attention out here and I jumped onto the TV sitcom Designing Women in the beginning and was able to do that pilot ... and things kind of took off.[10]
He was cast in two short-lived series: Gung Ho and Eisenhower & Lutz. During a Hollywood writers' strike, he returned to New York to star in Romance/Romance,[10] and then afterward landed the lead role opposite co-star Dean Stockwell in the science fiction television series Quantum Leap. Bakula played time traveler Dr. Sam Beckett, who was trapped by a malfunction of his time machine to correct things gone wrong in the past.[11] His performance in this program would earn him a Golden Globe Award (along with three nominations) and four Emmy Award nominations for Best Actor as well as five consecutive Viewers for Quality Television Awards for Best Actor in a Quality Drama Series.[citation needed]
In 1995, Bakula appeared on the cover of Playgirl. He voiced Danny Cat in the animated film, Cats Don't Dance (1997), singing in one number with Natalie Cole. Bakula played the aging veteran pitcher Gus Cantrell in Major League: Back to the Minors (1998), the final movie in the Major League trilogy. He also played Jim Olmeyer, same-sex partner of Sam Robards' Jim Berkley, in the film American Beauty (1999). As Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise, Bakula played the captain of Earth's first long-range interstellar ship. In 2006, he reprised the role of Archer for the Star Trek: Legacy PC and Xbox 360 video games as a voice-over. Bakula starred in the musical Shenandoah, a play which also provided his first professional theatrical role in 1976, at Ford's Theatre, in 2006. Bakula is heard singing "Pig Island" on Sandra Boynton's children's CD Philadelphia Chickens, which is labeled as being "For all ages except 43." Scott Bakula said that he might be starring as Sam in a Quantum Leap film as stated in TV Guide Magazine along with Dean Stockwell. At Comic Con 2010, he announced that a script was being worked on and that while he would be in the movie, he would not be in the main role.[12]
Bakula performed various songs from his career for a one-night-only performance entitled An Evening with Scott Bakula at Sidney Harman Hall on January 18, 2008, as a benefit for the restoration of the historic Ford's Theater.[13] Bakula had three appearances in 2008. He appeared as Atty. Jack Ross in an episode of Boston Legal, "Glow in the Dark", which aired on February 12, 2008 on the ABC network.[14] From March 4 - April 20, he starred as Tony Hunter in the world premiere of Dancing in the Dark at The Old Globe in San Diego, California. Dancing in the Dark is based on the movie The Band Wagon (1953), which starred Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse.[15] Bakula appeared as the character Chris Fulbright in the five episode run of the Tracey Ullman sketch comedy series State of the Union on Showtime.
Bakula appeared in the dark comedy film The Informant! (2009) as Brian Shepard, an FBI agent working with the title character, Mark Whitacre, (played by Matt Damon).[16] In April 2009, he began a recurring role on the television series Chuck as Stephen J. Bartowski, the eponymous character's long-lost father. From July 31 to August 2, 2009, he starred as Nathan Detroit in three performances of Guys and Dolls at Hollywood Bowl. Beginning in December 2009, Bakula began appearing as Terry, one of the three lead characters, along with Ray Romano (Joe) and Andre Braugher (Owen), in TNT's hour-long comedy/drama Men of a Certain Age. In 2011, he performed a voice cameo in the film Source Code as a slight nod to his character on Quantum Leap, with his catchphrase of "Oh, boy."[17] and appeared in the feature-length documentary The Captains, which was written and directed by William Shatner, Bakula is interviewed by the original Star Trek captain about his life and career leading up to his performances as Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise. In the movie, Shatner interviews Bakula at his ranch in California where the pair ride horses and discuss the pitfalls that come with a career in television.[18] In September 2011, Bakula starred in Terrible Advice by Saul Rubinek at the Menier Chocolate Factory.[citation needed] In April to May 2012, he guest starred in the last five episodes of Desperate Housewives as Bree Van de Kamp's criminal defense lawyer and third husband. In April 2013, he made a guest appearance on Two and a Half Men as a car dealer.In August 2013, it was announced Bakula would have a recurring role in the first season of HBO's new series, Looking.[19] He also appeared in the film Geography Club (2013).
In February 2014, Bakula was cast as the lead in a backdoor pilot for the NCIS spin-off series, NCIS: New Orleans, which began as a two-part episode of its parent series in the spring season of 2014.[20] NCIS: New Orleans has officially been renewed for a second season.
Personal life
Bakula married Krista Neumann in 1981 and had two children, Chelsy and Cody. They divorced in 1995.[1] He married actress Chelsea Field in 1996 and they have two children, Wil Botfield and Owen Barrett.[1]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1990 | Sibling Rivalry | Harry Turner | |
1991 | Necessary Roughness | Paul Blake | |
1993 | Flight from Hell | Jay | |
1994 | Color of Night | Bob Moore | |
A Passion to Kill | David | ||
1995 | Lord of Illusions | Harry D'Amour | |
1997 | Cats Don't Dance | Danny | Voice |
1998 | Major League: Back to the Minors | Gus Cantrell | |
1999 | American Beauty | Jim Olmeyer | |
2001 | Life as a House | Officer Kurt Walker | |
2009 | The Informant! | FBI Special Agent Brian Shepard | |
2011 | Source Code | Colter's Father | Voice |
The Captains | Himself | ||
2013 | Geography Club | Carl Land | |
Enter the Dangerous Mind | Kevin | ||
2014 | Elsa & Fred | Raymond Hayes | |
2015 | Me Him Her | Mr. Ehrlick | |
TBA | Basmati Blues | Ben | Completed |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1986 | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | Jeffrey Wilder | Episode: "I-Man" |
My Sister Sam | Peter Strickland | Episode: "Teacher's Pet" | |
1986–87 | Gung Ho | Hunt Stevenson | 9 episodes |
1986–88 | Designing Women | Ted Shively | 5 episodes |
1987 | CBS Summer Playhouse | Dr. Sanderson | Episode: "Infiltrator" |
Matlock | Jed Palmer | 2 episodes | |
The Last Fling | Drew | Television film | |
1988 | Eisenhower and Lutz | Barnett M. 'Bud' Lutz, Jr. | 13 episodes |
1989–93 | Quantum Leap | Dr. Sam Beckett | 97 episodes |
1993–96 | Murphy Brown | Peter Hunt | 13 episodes |
1994 | Dream On | Aaron Hendrick, Kidnapper #1 | 2 episodes |
1995 | The Invaders | Nolan Wood | Miniseries |
1996 | The Bachelor's Baby | Jake Henry | Television film |
1996–97 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Mr. Smith | 13 episodes |
1999 | NetForce | Alex Michaels | Television film |
2000 | In the Name of the People | John Burke | Television film |
The Trial of Old Drum | George Graham Vest | Television film | |
2001 | A Girl Thing | Paul Morgan | Television film |
2001–05 | Star Trek: Enterprise | Captain Jonathan Archer | 98 episodes / reprises role in video games Star Trek: Legacy and Star Trek Online |
2006–10 | The New Adventures of Old Christine | Jeff Hunter | 4 episodes |
2007 | American Body Shop | Maury | Episode: "Juicy Lou's" |
Blue Smoke | John Minger | Television film | |
2008 | Boston Legal | Jack Ross | Episode: "Glow in the Dark" |
State of the Union | Chris Fulbright | 4 episodes | |
2009–2010 | Chuck | Stephen J. Bartowski | 7 episodes |
2009–11 | Men of a Certain Age | Terry Elliott | 22 episodes |
2012 | Desperate Housewives | Trip Weston | 5 episodes |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Kent Webster | Episode: "Vanity's Bonfire" | |
Family Guy | Quagmire's reflection in mirror | Episode: "Burning Down the Bayit" | |
2013 | Behind the Candelabra | Bob Black | Television film |
Two and a Half Men | Jerry | Episode: "Bazinga! That's From a TV Show" | |
2014 | NCIS | Dwayne Pride | 2 episodes |
2014–present | NCIS: New Orleans | Dwayne Pride | 27 episodes |
2014–15 | Looking | Lynn | 8 episodes |
Awards and nominations
See also
References
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