During the early 2000s, actor Scoot McNairy quickly came to specialize in portrayals of colorful and individualistic young men with a slightly rebellious edge. McNairy began during the early to mid-2000s, with bit parts in films including Wonderland and an extraordinary night on the town.
McNairy had one nomination and one win from the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, for his role as a producer for the film In Search of a Midnight Kiss . The Independent Spirit Awards nominated him for the 2009 John Cassavetes Award, as best producer, along with Scott Allen Caplan. They were announced as the winners of the award at the 2009 Independent Spirit Award ceremony.
His father started to call him Scooter from when Scoot was two years old because he used to scoot around on his butt.
After spending most of his acting career living in LA, he and wife Whitney recently moved back to his native Texas.
One of his first big acting jobs was in a Levis commercial where he had to allow himself to be thrown from a mechanical bull, even though he had grown up in Texas simulating just this kind of bull-riding with friends--practicing on barrels that you tied to four trees with springs on them. A guy would get on each rope and rock the barrel back and forth....
Began acting in his early twenties after moving to Austin, Texas and being cast in his friend Alex Holbridges film Wrong Numbers.
Has no formal acting training.
Worked as a carpenter and set designer on film sets.
He describes himself as "very dyslexic".
He originally wanted to be a cinematographer.
Was in an on-screen relationship with Kerry Bish in both Argo and the AMC television series "Halt and Catch Fire" .
He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners in consecutive years: Argo and 12 Years a Slave .
