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Adam Paul Scott is an American actor, television actor, podcaster, and screenwriter. Born in Santa Cruz, California, on April 3, 1973, he began his work period in 1994. He was educated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and speaks English.
Scott has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama. He received the Time 100 award and is recognized in the Time 100 collection.
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Vinony catalogs Adam Scott in its Time 100 collection (508 entries).
Vinony's link graph records 427 inbound references to Adam Scott, and connects out to Entertainment Weekly, Film Independent Spirit Awards and Starz.
Vinony files it under 1973 births, 20th-century American comedians and 20th-century American male actors.
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Film & TV
Santa Cruz, California, USA
Adam Scott (born April 3, 1973) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, director and podcaster. He is best known for his roles as Ben Wyatt in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, Henry Pollard in the Starz comedy series Party Down, Palek in the HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me and Derek Huff in the 2008 film Step Brothers. He has appeared in the Adult Swim comedy Childrens Hospital. He was…
Known for
- The Saviors — Sean Harrison2026
- Hokum — Ohm Bauman2026
- The Whisper Man — Tom Kennedy2026
- Strip Law — Lincoln Gumb (voice)2026
- The Monkey — Captain Petey Shelborn2025
- Bianca by Night — Self - Guest (video link)2025
- The Studio — Adam Scott2025
- Madame Web — Ben Parker2024
- Dinner Time Live with David Chang — Self2024
- Hot Ones Versus — Self2024
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Key facts
- Born
- Adam Paul Scott , ( 1973-04-03 ) April 3, 1973 (age 53) , Santa Cruz , California, U.S.
- Alma mater
- American Academy of Dramatic Arts
- Occupations
- Actor and comedian
- Years active
- 1994–present
- Spouse
- Naomi Sablan Scott ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2005 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Adam
- Family name
- Scott
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Santa Cruz
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- Time 100
- Image
- Adam Scott - Severance.jpg
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- Adam Scott (actor)
- date of birth
- 1973-04-03
- birth name
- Adam Paul Scott
- name in native language
- Adam Scott
- start of work period
- 1994-00-00
- social media followers
- 1600238
- writing language
- English language
- P8979
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Encyclopedic overview
Adam Paul Scott (born April 3, 1973) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Ben Wyatt in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2010–2015), for which he was twice nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as Mark Scout in the Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller series Severance, for which he was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards – two for acting and two for producing – and two Golden Globe Awards.
Scott has also appeared in the films The Aviator (2004), Step Brothers (2008) and Flower (2017), as well as the Starz sitcom Party Down (2009–2010; 2023), the HBO drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), and the NBC comedy series The Good Place (2016–2018).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adam Scott” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.