Scott Wolf Bio - Biography

Name Scott Wolf
Height 5' 8"
Naionality American
Date of Birth 4 June 1968
Place of Birth Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Famous for
“I've always been a huge Paul Newman fan.” Scott Wolf

In 1990, Scott Wolf began appearing on television and played an extra in the NBC sitcom "Saved by the Bell.” He followed it up by appearing in a TV commercial for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes (1991) and was spotted as a guest in an episode of Disney Channel's musical sitcom "Kids Incorporated," ABC’s drama/comedy "The Commish," and Fox’s sitcom "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" He also played a small role as a choir member in his first film, "All I Want for Christmas" (1991; starring Ethan Embry, Thora Birch, and Lauren Bacall) and had a role in a failed TV series pilot called "Yesterday Today" (1992).

“Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.” Scott Wolf

Wolf made his TV series debut in a recurring role in the CBS sitcom "Evening Shade" in 1993. That same year, he scored a lead role in an independent film directed by John Shepphird, "Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde," playing the lead role of Clyde, a high school nerd working in a local burger joint who goes off on a bloody crime spree with Maureen Flannigan's Bonnie.

“I just try to have the experience my character is having. If I'm feeling it, if I'm living in that moment as best I can, then the hope is that it's something the audience is able to feel along with the character.” Scott Wolf

Afterward, he nabbed his most popular role to date, that of kind-hearted Bailey Salinger on the Fox series "Party of Five." Wolf stayed with the show for six years, from 1994 to 2000, and his work earned him a Teen Choice Award nomination for TV - Choice Actor. Matthew Fox, Neve Campbell, Lacey Chabert, and Paula Devicq co-starred as his siblings in the show.

During his "Party of Five" stint, Wolf co-starred with Mark Dacascos in a live-action film adaptation of the video game, "Double Dragon" (1994), played Charles 'Chuck' Gieg in Ridley Scott's dramatic film "White Squall" (1996; with Jeff Bridges, John Savage, and Ryan Phillippe), and was cast in Robert Harling's film adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel, "Evening Star" (1996; starring Shirley MacLaine and Bill Paxton), as the aspiring underwear model boyfriend to Juliette Lewis' character.

Director Doug Liman also cast him as a popular soap star with a secret, alongside Jay Mohr, Katie Holmes, and Sarah Polley, in the crime/comedy movie "Go" (1999). Wolf and Mohr received a Teen Choice Award nomination for Film - Funniest Scene, for their performance.

Wolf made his Broadway acting debut as the narrator Clifford in "Side Man" (1999). Besides "Party of Five," TV viewers could also catch him as a guest in an episode of NBC’s sitcom "Blossom," Fox’s sketch comedy television series based on the humor magazine, "Mad TV," Fox’s comedy-variety show "Saturday Night Special," NBC’s sketch comedy/variety show "Saturday Night Live," and in two episodes of "Party of Five’s" spin-off starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, "Time of Your Life."

After "Party of Five" ended in 2000, Wolf went on to appear in the Tony Markes and Adam Rifkin's independent mockumentary about a young man trying to make it in Hollywood as an actor, "Welcome to Hollywood" (2000), and voiced the speaking voice of Scamp in Disney's direct-to-video animated film "Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure" (2001), a sequel to the 1955 feature film "Lady and the Tramp." His work in the latter film would win him a DVD Exclusive Award for Best Animated Character Performance.

Wolf subsequently played a recurring role in the ABC sitcom "Spin City," as the love interest to Heather Locklear's character, and starred in the made-for-television movies "Jenifer" (2001), as Jenifer's (played by Laura San Giacomo) date, "Rubbing Charlie" (2003), as the comic title role, and "Picking Up & Dropping Off" (2003), as a divorced weatherman who begins seeing a divorced woman (played by Amanda Detmer).

He also continued working for films and supported Jennifer Bransford, John Enos III, Jack Gwaltney, Kellie Overbey, and Roy Scheider in Nick Gregory's remake of "Love Thy Neighbor" (2002) and starred as the titular young Philadelphia homicide detective in writer/director Keith Snyder's thriller film "Emmett's Mark" (2002; aka "Killing Emmett Young"). Returning to stage, he played John Millen in Frank McGuinness' play "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme" (February 2003) at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater in New York City.

From 2004 to 2006, Wolf joined the cast of the WB prime time television drama "Everwood," playing a California doctor named Jake Hartman. Meanwhile, in 2004, he co-starred with Marisa Coughlan in the WB drama movie "Kat Plus One."

Following the demise of "Everwood" in 2006, Wolf co-starred as a surgeon named Jeremy Kates who was in a serious relationship with Lizzie, a social worker (played by Jessica Collins), in the short-lived ABC drama, "The Nine," which was officially canceled in March 2007 due to poor ratings.

More recently, in 2008, Wolf starred in the comedy TV movie "Making It Legal."

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