Campbell Scott Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Producer , Director more
Nationality American
Birth July 19, 1961 (New York, New York – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
The son of comedian George C. Scott , Campbell Scott was born at a good school. He took lessons from Stella Adler , a renowned theater teacher, affiliated with the Actors Studio, and who notably trained a certain Robert De Niro . He graduated in 1983 from Lawrence University in Wisconsin with a degree in theater studies, before flying to Broadway to perform for the first time.

Campbell Scott began his film career in 1987, with a small appearance in Five Corners , a film in which he crossed paths with Tim Robbins and Jodie Foster . From the beginning of the 90s, he became one of the most promising young actors in American cinema. He gained attention in the profession thanks to his character as a young man whose loved ones die of AIDS ( A Long-Time Companion , 1989), before subsequently starring with Julia Roberts in The Choice to Love (1992). We then find him successively in Bernardo Bertolucci ( A Tea in the Sahara , 1990), John Schlesinger ( The Innocent , 1993), as well as in the second film of the very young Cameron Crowe ( Singles , 1992).

In 1996, Campbell Scott took the plunge and went behind the camera for his first feature film, Big Night , co-directed with a former school friend, the actor Stanley Tucci . He then appeared in 1997 in The Spanish Prisoner where his talents as a man of the theater were recognized by the screenwriter-director David Mamet , also a regular on the stage. Alongside his acting career, Scott occasionally returns to directing. In 2002, he signed Off the Map , and filmed an adaptation of Hamlet for television .

In the mid-2000s, Campbell Scott took on notable supporting roles, including a priest character in Ralph (2004) and that of a prosecutor in The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005). It is also in the credits of actor Kevin Bacon ‘s first film , entitled Loverboy (id.). While pursuing his theatrical career, Scott joined the cast of different series for a few episodes (including Six Degrees , Damages , Royal Pains ), and found himself in the global spotlight in 2012, playing Richard Parker, the missing father of famousAmazing Spider-Man .