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Encyclopedia > Tom Everett Scott

Thomas Everett Scott (born September 7, 1970 in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts) is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as drummer Guy Patterson in the 1996 hit movie That Thing You Do!. He attended Syracuse University. is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... East Bridgewater is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1996. ... That Thing You Do! is a 1996 film, written and directed by Tom Hanks. ... Syracuse University (SU) is a private nonsectarian research university located in Syracuse, New York. ...


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. [1] Grace Under Fire was a television series which ran on ABC from 1993 to 1998. ... That Thing You Do! is a 1996 film, written and directed by Tom Hanks. ... Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor, Emmy-winning director, voice-over artist and movie producer. ... Rita Wilson (born October 26, 1956)[1] is an American actress and producer. ...


Scott has also had several other notable roles; he was the lead in the 1998 film Dead Man On Campus. 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. Dead Man on Campus is a 1998 comedy starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tom Everett Scott. ... ER is a long-running, Emmy Award winning American serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois. ... Saved is a new medical drama television series. ...


Scott appeared on Broadway as the closeted film star Mitchell Green in Douglas Carter Beane's comedy, The Little Dog Laughed. His most recent film appearance is as one of Mandy Moore's boyfriends in the 2007 comedy Because I Said So. Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Douglas Carter Beane is an American playwright and screenwriter. ... The Little Dog Laughed is a play by Douglas Carter Beane. ... Because I Said So is a 2002 Canadian talk show television series hosted by former lawyer, stand-up comedian, and actress Maggie Cassella. ...


Filmography

Because I Said So is a 2007 romantic-comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo and Stephen Collins. ... Air Buddies is the sixth film in the Air Bud series and the first in the spinoff series Air Buddies, which follows the life of a lonely teenager and his dog who has the uncanny ability to play every sport. ... Saved is a new medical drama television series. ... Justice League Unlimited (or JLU) is the name of an American animated television series that was produced by and aired on Cartoon Network. ... Booster Gold is a fictional character, a superhero in publications from DC Comics. ... Call of Duty: Finest Hour is a first-person shooter for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube video game consoles. ... Do Over is a television series created by Kenny Schwartz and Rick Wiener which was broadcast on The WB Television Network in 2002. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 2002 films | Comedy films | Teen films ... Television series created by Steven Bochco focusing on a divorce lawyer. ... The $treet was an American television drama series that aired on Fox in 2000. ... The Rules of Attraction (2002) is a dark satirical film based on the novel The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis. ... Boiler Room is a 2000 U.S. drama, written and directed by Ben Younger, and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel and Nia Long. ... Top of the Food Chain is a 1999 Canadian film directed by John Paizs, starring Campbell Scott, Fiona Loewi, and Tom Everett Scott. ... Inherit the Wind is a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, which opened on Broadway in January 1955, and a 1960 Hollywood film based on the play. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... One True Thing is a 1998 film which tells the story of a woman who is forced to put her life on hold in order to care for her dying mother. ... Dead Man on Campus is a 1998 comedy starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tom Everett Scott. ... An American Werewolf in Paris was a 1997 horror film about werewolves. ... That Thing You Do! is a 1996 film, written and directed by Tom Hanks. ... Grace Under Fire was a television series which ran on ABC from 1993 to 1998. ...

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Tom Everett Scott (304 words)
Ironically, this resemblance almost cost him his part in the film; after seeing Scott's audition tape, Hanks didn't want to hire him because of the resemblance, but the intervention of his wife, Rita Wilson, who saw the tape and thought Scott was "cute," saved the day and landed the young actor his breakthrough role.
Scott was born September 7, 1970 in Brockton, Massachusetts.
The third of four children, Scott was raised in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts by a civil engineer father and an insurance saleswoman mother.
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