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Tom Everett Scott was born and raised in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, the third of four children of Cynthia , an insurance saleswoman, and William Joseph Scott, who was a civil engineer. Tom spent his childhood in a "nice house in the woods", with a pond nearby, canoeing and camping. He acted in high school plays, but Tom planned to quit acting, and take a more serious look at the world. So, he enrolled in communications at Syracuse University in 1988. During his sophomore year he says "I went down to the theater and saw everything going on-people jumping around being idiots-and I thought, 'This is my home. This is where I should be.'" So, Tom switched his major to drama, and upon graduating, he moved to New York City. There, he waited tables, and eventually founded a theater company with 3 college buddies that they named "aTheaterco".
During auditions for That Thing You Do! , Tom Hanks was opposed to hiring Tom (Everett Scott), because of the the fact that Scott couldve passed for Hanks 15 years ago. It wasnt until Hanks wife Rita Wilson saw the audition tape and decided he was cute, that Hanks decided to pick Scott.
Steve Zahn , who was in That Thing You Do! with Tom, was the best man at Toms wedding. Steve and Tom later played the same character, Frank Heffley, in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid films, with Steve playing the role in the first three films and Tom taking over in the fourth.
In the 2003 off-Broadway play "Touch," Scotts character opened the show with a 30-minute monologue.
In 2005, he appeared at the L.A. Ahmanson Theatre stage production of "Dead End," a rare revival of the 1932 Depression-era play that takes place along New Yorks East River. In the play, the entire orchestra pit was filled with 11,000 gallons of water to recreate the site. The play cost a reported $3 million.
Came in 3rd in a "World Poker Tour" event, so far being the only "celebrity" to make it to a WPT final table.
Graduated from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York with a BA in Drama in 1992.
Sometimes mistaken for Brendan Hines , who was "Eli Loker" in "Lie to Me" .
He is the son of Cynthia (Pierce) and William Joseph Scott. Tom is of English, and smaller amounts of Scottish, German, and Irish, ancestry. His lineage includes both recent immigrants and family lines that have lived in the United States since the 1600s.
