Thomas Everett Scott (born
September 7, 1970)
is an American
actor. He is perhaps best known for his
starring role as drummer Guy Patterson in the 1996 movie
That Thing You
Do!.
Early life
Scott was
born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
to an insurance salesperson mother, Cindy, and a
civil engineer father, Bill. He attended Syracuse University
.
Career
Scott's first notable role was on the sitcom
Grace Under Fire; he played the title
character's out of wedlock son, whom she had given up for adoption.
After several seasons on the show in a recurring role, Scott landed
the role in
That Thing You
Do!. He was almost passed over because of his resemblance
to the movie's director, actor
Tom Hanks,
but Hanks' wife
Rita Wilson encouraged
Hanks to cast Scott in the role of Guy.
Scott has also had several other notable roles; he was the lead in
the 1998 film
Dead Man On
Campus as well as
An American Werewolf in
Paris. Scott also had a recurring role on the television
series
ER, and has played
numerous minor parts in other films and television shows. In the
summer of 2006, he starred in
Saved, a hit dramatic program on
the TNT cable network.
Scott
appeared on Broadway
as the
closeted film star Mitchell Green in Douglas Carter Beane's comedy
The Little Dog
Laughed, as well as Zip in the off-Broadway play
The Country
Club. In his most recent film appearance he played
one of Mandy Moore's boyfriends in the 2007 comedy
Because I Said So.
Recently, Everett Scott appeared in four episodes of
Law & Order playing
Governor of New York Don Shalvoy. Scott
also starred as Jack Cutting on the cancelled
ABC drama
Cashmere Mafia, which debuted on January
6, 2008. He plays
Lucy Liu's fiance, an
advertising executive, who is in constant competition with her
character, Mia Mason.
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