"Adam Scott"

Adam Paul Scott (born April 3, 1973) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles as Derek in the movie Step Brothers, Henry Pollard in the Starz comedy series Party Down, and as Ben Wyatt in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation.

Scott was born on April 3, 1973 in Santa Cruz, California, the son of Anne (née Quartara) and Douglas Scott. He has two older siblings, Shannon and David. Scott has said that his brother David "looks like me but is far more cerebral and inherited the intellect of our parents," both of whom are retired teachers. He graduated from Harbor High School and he is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, California.

One of his earliest roles was in Hellraiser: Bloodline. He has appeared in several feature films, including Who Loves the Sun (2006), Monster-in-Law (2005), The Aviator (2004), Torque (2004), High Crimes (2002), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), and The Lesser Evil (1998). In 2007-08, he had a cameo as a nurse in Knocked Up, and played Will Ferrell's biological brother Derek in Step Brothers, as well as Josh in the dot-com drama August. Scott played a supporting role in Alexandre Aja's remake Piranha 3-D, playing a character similar to Bradford Dillman's character from the original. He also played Jeremy in Leap Year. Scott's name appears next to Jon Hamm's in the movie Anchorman in one of the broadcast's credits. In an appearance on G4's Attack of the Show program on April 21, 2011, Scott confirmed that this was due to his and Hamm's friendship with producer Shauna Robertson, who put their names in the credits as an Easter egg.

He appeared in the films Our Idiot Brother (2011) as Jeremy and Bachelorette. He also starred as Jason Fryman in Friends with Kids (2012) alongside real-life friends Jennifer Westfeldt and Hamm.
Alongside recurring Party Down guest star J.K. Simmons, Scott starred as Caleb Sinclaire in the 2009 film The Vicious Kind in a more dramatic role than his previous comedic endeavors. Though the film itself was met with mixed reviews, Scott's own performance was held in much higher regard. For his efforts, Scott won two individual awards at two separate film festivals, with writer and director Lee Toland Krieger winning one as well. Scott starred in the film Passenger Side, released on DVD on October 26, 2010. Who Loves The Sun, the film was his second collaboration with writer-director Matt Bissonnette.

On television, he appeared as Griff in the series Boy Meets World and Josh on Party of Five, as well as David's love interest, Ben Cooper, on Six Feet Under. He played Palek on the HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me (2007). Scott played a cocaine-addicted, delirious baseball front office representative in the first and second seasons of the HBO series, Eastbound & Down. From 2009 to 2010 he appeared on the Starz network show Party Down, created by Rob Thomas. His role as Henry Pollard in Party Down earned him an Entertainment Weekly Ewwy nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2009. In 2010 he left Party Down and joined the cast of NBC's Parks and Recreation.
He has appeared in the Adult Swim comedy Childrens Hospital. He was also on the show NTSF:SD:SUV::, in the episode "The Risky Business of Being Alone in Your Home", and the annual Adult Swim special The Greatest Event in Television History. Scott has also appeared in the Comedy Central television show Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, as a newscaster in the episode "Relapse into Refreshment". He has appeared in a series of commercials for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	virtuosity	Uncredited
1996	Hellraiser: Bloodline	Jacques
1996	The Last Days of Frankie the Fly	Race Track Valet
1996	Star Trek: First Contact	Defiant Conn Officer
1997	Dinner and Driving	Larry
1997	Payback	Adam Stanfill	TV Movie
1998	Girl	Scott
1998	The Lesser Evil	Young George
1998	Hairshirt	Fan at Bar
1999	Sagamore	Alex
1999	Winding Roads	Brian Calhoun	TV movie
2001	Date Squad	Fred	Short
2001	Seven and a Match	Peter
2002	Six Feet Under	Ben Cooper
2002	Ronnie	Ronnie Schwann
2002	High Crimes	Lt. Terrence Embry
2002	Bleach	Fulton	Short
2003	Something More	Saul	Short
2003	Two Days	Stu
2004	Torque	FBI Agent McPherson
2004	Off the Lip	David
2004	The Aviator	Johnny Meyer
2005	Veronica Mars	Mr. Rooks	1 Episode
2005	The Matador	Phil Garrison
2005	Monster-In-Law	Remy
2006	Art School Confidential	Marvin Bushmiller
2006	First Snow	Tom Morelane
2006	Who Loves the Sun	Daniel Bloom
2006	The Return	Kurt
2007	Knocked Up	Samuel-Male Nurse
2007	Tell Me You Love Me	Palek	Series Regular
2008	The Great Buck Howard	Alan Berkman
2008	August	Joshua Sterling
2008	Corporate Affairs	Jack Hightower
2008	Step Brothers	Derek
2008	Lovely, Still	Mike Malone
2009	The Vicious Kind	Caleb Sinclaire
2009	Passenger Side	Michael
2009–2010	Party Down	Henry Pollard	Series Regular
2010	Operation: Endgame	Magician
2010	The Wonderful Maladys		TV Movie
2010	Childrens Hospital	Lt. D'Ghor Koru	1 Episode
2010	AIDS: We Did It!		Short
2010	Leap Year	Jeremy
2010	Piranha 3-D	Novak
2010–present	Parks and Recreation	Ben Wyatt	Series Regular
2011	Fight for Your Right Revisited	Cab Driver	Short
2011	The Terrys	Narrator	Short
2011	Our Idiot Brother	Jeremy
2011	Friends with Kids	Jason Fryman
2012	Bachelorette	Clyde
2012	HJ Gloves		Short
2012	See Girl Run	Jason
2012	A.C.O.D.	Carter
2012	The Guilt Trip	Andrew Margolis, Jr.
2012–present	The Greatest Event in Television History	Himself
2013	Drunk History	John Wilkes Booth	Episode 1: Washington D.C.
2013	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Ted Hendricks
2014	Hot Tub Time Machine 2	Adam	Filming

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