Scott Foley
Encyclopedia
Scott Kellerman Foley is an American
actor
. He is known for roles in television shows such as The Unit
and Felicity, and in films such as Scream 3
. He has also guest starred in the series Dawson's Creek
, House
, Scrubs
, and more recently, Cougar Town
, Grey's Anatomy
and True Blood
.
, the eldest of three sons. He lived in various countries throughout his childhood.
In 1989 he attended the Red Arrow Summer Camp for Boys.
, playing Elliot Reid
's boyfriend, Sean Kelly, and on Dawson's Creek
as Cliff.
Foley was nominated for a Teen Choice Award/Film as Choice Sleazebag for his role in Scream 3
. Aside from acting, Foley directed one episode of Felicity (called "The Graduate") and produced the sitcom A.U.S.A.
, on which he appeared. He had a starring role in CBS military drama The Unit
, throughout its entire four season run, as Sergeant First Class Bob Brown
. He guest-starred as a drug addicted baseball pitcher on the hospital drama, House
.
Scott Foley appeared in three episodes of ABC's new hit comedy Cougar Town
starting in December. He signed on to play a businessman being shown houses by Cougar Town's resident real estate agent, Jules, played by Courteney Cox
, reuniting with her 9 years after Scream 3
. His character and Jules began a dating relationship, but it ended quickly as he wanted a more serious relationship than on-the-rebound Jules.
, whom he met when she guest starred on Felicity. Foley and Garner, now the wife of film star Ben Affleck
, separated in March 2003 and Garner filed for divorce in May 2003.
In 2006, he was engaged to actress Marika Dominczyk
; they married in June 2007 in a private ceremony in Hawaii
.
By this marriage he became brother-in-law to actress Dagmara Dominczyk, his wife's sister, and her husband, actor Patrick Wilson
. In October 2009, it was announced that Foley and his wife were expecting a daughter.
United States
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actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. He is known for roles in television shows such as The Unit
The Unit
The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life U.S. Army special operations unit commonly known as Delta Force...
and Felicity, and in films such as Scream 3
Scream 3
Scream 3 is a 2000 American slasher film created by Kevin Williamson, directed by Wes Craven and written by Ehren Kruger, starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette, released on February 4, 2000 as the third, and originally, concluding installment in the Scream film series...
. He has also guest starred in the series Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB Television Network and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and in Boston, Massachusetts, during the later seasons...
, House
House (TV series)
House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
, Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)
Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...
, and more recently, Cougar Town
Cougar Town
Cougar Town is an American television sitcom that premiered on ABC on September 23, 2009. The series focuses on a recently divorced woman in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter, along with her son, ex-husband, and friends who together make...
, Grey's Anatomy
Grey's Anatomy
Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...
and True Blood
True Blood
True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana...
.
Early life
Foley was born in Kansas City, KansasKansas City, Kansas
Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...
, the eldest of three sons. He lived in various countries throughout his childhood.
In 1989 he attended the Red Arrow Summer Camp for Boys.
Career
Foley's breakthrough role was playing Noel Crane on Felicity. Foley has had recurring guest appearances on ScrubsScrubs (TV series)
Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...
, playing Elliot Reid
Elliot Reid
Dr. Elliot Reid is a fictional character played by Sarah Chalke in the American comedy-drama Scrubs. She has appeared in every episode during the first eight seasons except two Season 8 episodes, "My Last Words" and "My Lawyer's in Love"....
's boyfriend, Sean Kelly, and on Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB Television Network and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and in Boston, Massachusetts, during the later seasons...
as Cliff.
Foley was nominated for a Teen Choice Award/Film as Choice Sleazebag for his role in Scream 3
Scream 3
Scream 3 is a 2000 American slasher film created by Kevin Williamson, directed by Wes Craven and written by Ehren Kruger, starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette, released on February 4, 2000 as the third, and originally, concluding installment in the Scream film series...
. Aside from acting, Foley directed one episode of Felicity (called "The Graduate") and produced the sitcom A.U.S.A.
A.U.S.A.
A.U.S.A. is an American sitcom television series that aired in 2003 on NBC, starring Scott Foley.-Plot:Adam Sullivan is a naive, but well-intentioned federal prosecutor in New York City, who must contend with the difficulties of both his work life and his romantic life...
, on which he appeared. He had a starring role in CBS military drama The Unit
The Unit
The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life U.S. Army special operations unit commonly known as Delta Force...
, throughout its entire four season run, as Sergeant First Class Bob Brown
Bob Brown (The Unit)
Sergeant First Class Robert Davis "Bob" Brown is a fictional character on the CBS television series The Unit. He is portrayed by Scott Foley.-Character Overview:...
. He guest-starred as a drug addicted baseball pitcher on the hospital drama, House
House (TV series)
House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
.
Scott Foley appeared in three episodes of ABC's new hit comedy Cougar Town
Cougar Town
Cougar Town is an American television sitcom that premiered on ABC on September 23, 2009. The series focuses on a recently divorced woman in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter, along with her son, ex-husband, and friends who together make...
starting in December. He signed on to play a businessman being shown houses by Cougar Town's resident real estate agent, Jules, played by Courteney Cox
Courteney Cox
Courteney Bass Cox is an American actress, she is best known for her roles as Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends, Gale Weathers in the horror series Scream and as Jules Cobb in the ABC sitcom Cougar Town, for which she earned her first Golden Globe nomination....
, reuniting with her 9 years after Scream 3
Scream 3
Scream 3 is a 2000 American slasher film created by Kevin Williamson, directed by Wes Craven and written by Ehren Kruger, starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette, released on February 4, 2000 as the third, and originally, concluding installment in the Scream film series...
. His character and Jules began a dating relationship, but it ended quickly as he wanted a more serious relationship than on-the-rebound Jules.
Personal life
On October 19, 2000, Foley married actress Jennifer GarnerJennifer Garner
Jennifer Anne Affleck , better known as Jennifer Garner, is an American actress and film producer. Garner gained recognition on television for her performance as CIA agent Sydney Bristow in the thriller drama series Alias, which aired on ABC for five seasons from 2001 to 2006...
, whom he met when she guest starred on Felicity. Foley and Garner, now the wife of film star Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck
Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt , better known as Ben Affleck, is an American actor, film director, writer, and producer. He became known with his performances in Kevin Smith's films such as Mallrats and Chasing Amy...
, separated in March 2003 and Garner filed for divorce in May 2003.
In 2006, he was engaged to actress Marika Dominczyk
Marika Dominczyk
-Personal:Dominczyk moved with her family from Kielce, Poland, to New York City when she was three, after her parents were expelled from their native Poland for her father's involvement with Amnesty International and then the Solidarity movement....
; they married in June 2007 in a private ceremony in Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
.
By this marriage he became brother-in-law to actress Dagmara Dominczyk, his wife's sister, and her husband, actor Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson (actor)
Patrick Joseph Wilson is an American actor and singer. Wilson has spent years singing lead roles in major Broadway musicals, beginning in 1996. In 2003, he appeared in the HBO mini-series Angels in America...
. In October 2009, it was announced that Foley and his wife were expecting a daughter.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Self Storage | Zack Griffey | |
| Scream 3 Scream 3 Scream 3 is a 2000 American slasher film created by Kevin Williamson, directed by Wes Craven and written by Ehren Kruger, starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette, released on February 4, 2000 as the third, and originally, concluding installment in the Scream film series... |
Roman Bridger/Ghostface Ghostface (Scream) Ghostface is a fictional identity adopted by the main antagonists in the Scream series of slasher films. The character is voiced by Roger L. Jackson regardless of who is behind the mask... |
Teen Choice Award (nominated) | |
| 2001 | Stealing Time Stealing Time Stealing Time is a 2001 drama involving the uniting of four friends reuniting a year after college, each of them now dealing with their own problems... |
Casey Shepherd | |
| 2002 | Below Below (film) Below is a 2002 World War II horror film directed by David Twohy. It was written by Lucas Sussman, Darren Aronofsky and David Twohy, and stars Bruce Greenwood, Olivia Williams, Matthew Davis, Holt McCallany, Scott Foley, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Flemyng and Dexter Fletcher.It was filmed on location... |
Lt. Steven Coors | |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Sweet Valley High Sweet Valley High (TV series) Sweet Valley High is an American comedy-drama series based on Francine Pascal's book series of the same name. The series ran from September 5, 1994 to October 14, 1997, and was produced by Saban Entertainment... |
Zack | Episode: Blunder Alley |
| 1997 | Crowned and Dangerous Crowned and Dangerous Crowned and Dangerous was a 1997 made-for-TV movie which was a thriller that based on a true story and starred Yasmine Bleeth, Cassidy Rae, George Eads and Jill Clayburgh.-Plot:... |
Matt | Television movie Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to... |
| Step by Step | Jeremy Beck | Episode: A Star is Born | |
| 1998 | Dawson's Creek Dawson's Creek Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB Television Network and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and in Boston, Massachusetts, during the later seasons... |
Cliff Elliot | 5 episodes |
| Someone to Love Me: A Moment of Truth Movie | Ian Hall | Television movie | |
| Forever Love | David | Television movie | |
| 1998–2002 | Felicity | Noel Crane | 84 episodes Teen Choice Award (nominated-4) |
| 1999 | Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane is an American teen sitcom starring Selma Blair, David Moscow, Michael Rosenbaum, and Azura Skye that premiered in 1999 on The WB network... |
Montana Kennedy | Episode: Pilot Episode: Everything You Want to Know About Zoe |
| 2002 | Girls Club | Wayne Henry | Episode: Pilot |
| 2002–2009 | Scrubs Scrubs (TV series) Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes... |
Sean Kelly | 12 episodes |
| 2003 | A.U.S.A. A.U.S.A. A.U.S.A. is an American sitcom television series that aired in 2003 on NBC, starring Scott Foley.-Plot:Adam Sullivan is a naive, but well-intentioned federal prosecutor in New York City, who must contend with the difficulties of both his work life and his romantic life... |
Adam Sullivan | |
| 2004 | Jack & Bobby Jack & Bobby Jack & Bobby is an American television series that aired on The WB network. It featured two brothers, one of whom would become President of the United States, serving from 2041 to 2049... |
Lars Christopher | Episode: Election Night |
| 2005 | House House (TV series) House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in... |
Hank Wiggen | Episode: Sports Medicine |
| 2006 | Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone | Dr. Clay Harding | Television movie |
| 2006–2009 | The Unit The Unit The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life U.S. Army special operations unit commonly known as Delta Force... |
SSG/SFC Bob Brown Bob Brown (The Unit) Sergeant First Class Robert Davis "Bob" Brown is a fictional character on the CBS television series The Unit. He is portrayed by Scott Foley.-Character Overview:... |
69 episodes |
| 2009 | The Last Templar | Sean Daley (Original Real Name: Sean Reily) | Miniseries |
| 2009 | Law and Order: Special Victims Unit | Dalton Rindell | 1 Episode |
| 2009–2010 | Cougar Town Cougar Town Cougar Town is an American television sitcom that premiered on ABC on September 23, 2009. The series focuses on a recently divorced woman in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter, along with her son, ex-husband, and friends who together make... |
Jeff | 4 episodes |
| 2010–2011 | Grey's Anatomy Grey's Anatomy Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in... |
Henry Burton | |
| 2011 | True Blood True Blood True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana... |
Patrick Devins | 1 episode (4.12) |