Scott Bakula

From ScottBakulaOnline:

Fullname: Scott Stewart Bakula
Date of birth: 9 October 1954
Birth place: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Father: Stewart Bakula (a corporate lawyer)
Mother: Sally Bakula
Siblings: Brad, Linda (Both are younger siblings)
Marital status: Married Krista Neumann in 1981, divorced 1995. Together with Chelsea Field since 1996.
Children:  Chelsy born 1984 who can be seen in Quantum Leap's 1993 Memphis Melody episode.
               Cody, born 1991
               Wil born 1996
               Owen, born July 1999
Height: 6'0"
Hair: Brown with a white streak (The white streak in his hair appeared when he was four years old. He had been helping a neighbor painting, and his mother thought he had gotten paint in his hair.!!)
Eyes: Green
Academic history: Attended Kirkwood High School, St Louis, Missouri, graduated in 1973.
                         Attended the University of Kansas to study pre law and accounting in 1973/1974.
                         Switch to theatre studies halfway through the third semester of his sophomore year in college.
Professional Development: Bakula Productions Incorporated was set up in 1994 with its current aim to develop feature and telefilms for Paramount Network Television.


Awards:

Emmy
Nominated for OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES - 1990
(QUANTUM LEAP (Jimmy) • Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett)

Nominated for OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES - 1991
(QUANTUM LEAP •(Shock Theater - October 3, 1954) • SCOTT BAKULA as Sam Beckett)

Nominated for OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES - 1992
(QUANTUM LEAP • (Dreams) • SCOTT BAKULA as Sam Beckett)

Nominated for OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES - 1993
(QUANTUM LEAP • (Lee Harvey Oswald) • SCOTT BAKULA as Sam Beckett)


Golden Globes Award
Awarded Best Actor, Quantum Leap 1992
Nominated for Best Actor, Quantum Leap 1990
Nominated for Best Actor, Quantum Leap 1991
Nominated for Best Actor, Quantum Leap 1993


Annual Quality Awards
Awarded Best Actor, Drama Quantum Leap 1989-1990 Season
Awarded Best Actor, Drama Quantum Leap 1990-1991 Season
Awarded Best Actor, Drama Quantum Leap 1991-1992 Season
Awarded Best Actor, Drama Quantum Leap 1992-1993 Season
Awarded Specialty Player Murphy Brown 1993-1994 Season


Tony
Nominated for Best Actor Romance/Romance 1988

People's Choice Award
Nominated in the category of Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series - 2001

Saturn Awards
Nominated in the category of Best Actor In A Televisin Series - 2003


Hobbies/interest: Ice hockey, soccer, tennis, roller blade, skiing, golf, softball.

Notes: Scott's talents are as wide ranging as the come. A product of musical parents he started a rock band in the forth grade and began writing songs at a very early age. A gifted musician on the piano and keyboard. Both his vocal and musical talents can be seen on Quantum Leap. His singing talent led him him to St. Louis Symphony, and productions of Godspell, Man Of La Mancha,  Marilyn: An American Fable, Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down, Romance/Romance. Shennandoah - a dinner theater tour was Scott's first professional gig. Scott also did commercials - Folgers Coffee Commercial and Canada Dry Commercial. Scott is currently represented by International Creative Management.

From StarTrek.com:

Scott Bakula is Captain Jonathan Archer in UPN's Enterprise. He is perhaps best known for his five-year stint on the innovative television series Quantum Leap, which brought him a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series, as well as three additional nominations, and four Emmy nominations. He was also honored and an unprecedented five times by the Viewers for Quality Television. Today, Quantum Leap remains one of the most popular series in syndication around the world. Plus, a Quantum Leap album features songs Bakula performed in several episodes.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Bakula moved to New York in 1976 where he pursued a career on the stage. In 1988 he was honored with a Tony nomination for his starring role in the Broadway musical "Romance-Romance." He had earlier made his Broadway debut as Joe DiMaggio in "Marilyn: An American Fable." His other theatre credits include the critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway and Los Angeles productions of "Three Guys Naked From the Waist Down," and the Los Angeles and Boston productions of "Nite Club Confidential."

Bakula has received high praise for his work in a variety of feature film roles including the 1999 Academy Award-winning "American Beauty," and has recently completed "Life as a House" with award-winning director Irwin Winkler. Other films to his credit are "Lord of Illusions," "Major League: Back to the Minors," "A Passion to Kill," "Mi Familia/My Family," "Color of Night," and Paramount's football comedy "Necessary Roughness." He made his 1990 film debut in director Carl Reiner's "Sibling Rivalry."

Alternating between film and television, Bakula has appeared in such recognized series as Designing Women and Murphy Brown, and in the mini-series "A Girl Thing," "The Invaders," and the ABC mini-series "Tom Clancy's Netforce," as well as the telefilms "Mean Streak," "Papa's Angels," and "Bachelor Baby," which he starred in and produced. Bakula recently wrapped production on "What Girls Learn," an original telefilm for which in which he served as executive producer through his BPI Productions in association with Paramount Network Television. He also stars in the independent film "Ghost of a Chance."

His singing ability has afforded him some special opportunities including performances at the Kennedy Center Honors, at Carnegie Hall and at the Hollywood Bowl with Carol Burnett, as well as the animated musical "Cats Don't Dance" as Danny the cat.