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Scott Bakula is an American television, film, and stage actor who also works as a film producer. Born on October 9, 1954, in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a citizen of the United States and a member of the Democratic Party. He began his professional work period in 1977. Bakula is married to Chelsea Field and has four children. He received his education at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.
His career includes roles in productions such as *Necessary Roughness*, *Ponyo Calendar 2022*, *NCIS: New Orleans*, and *Above Suspicion*. Bakula has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and has received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama. He speaks English as his native language.
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Film & TV
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Scott Stewart Bakula (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards. He also had a prominent role as Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise. Bakula also guest starred in seasons two…
Known for
- Hockey Fanatics — Self2026
- NCISverse: The First 1,000 — Self2024
- The D-Con Chamber — Self2024
- Divinity — Sterling2023
- Only Murders in the Building — Scott Bakula2021
- Star Trek Day — Self2020
- What We Do in the Shadows — Scott Bakula2019
- United We Fan — Self2018
- Basmati Blues — Eric2017
- Summertime — padre di Paul2016
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Key facts
- Born
- Scott Stewart Bakula , ( 1954-10-09 ) October 9, 1954 (age 71) , St. Louis , Missouri, U.S.
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1977–present
- Spouses
- Krista Neumann ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1981 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1995 ) Chelsea Field ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2009 )
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- human
- Given name
- Scott
- Family name
- Bakula
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- St. Louis
- Spouse
- Chelsea Field
- Occupation
- actor
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Scott Bakula by Gage Skidmore.jpg
- Number of children
- 4
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- Scott Bakula
- date of birth
- 1954-10-09
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- Scott Bakula
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- social media followers
- 89175
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Scott Stewart Bakula (/ˈbækjʊlə/; born October 9, 1954) is an American actor. He played Sam Beckett on Quantum Leap – for which he was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards (winning one) – and Captain Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise. From 2014 to 2021, he portrayed Special Agent Dwayne Cassius "King" Pride on NCIS: New Orleans.
A Tony Award-nominee for his work on Broadway, Bakula starred in the comedy-drama series Men of a Certain Age and guest-starred in the second and third seasons of NBC's Chuck as the title character's father, Stephen J. Bartowski. From 2014 to 2015, he played entrepreneur Lynn on the HBO show Looking.
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