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Scott Speedman
Speedman at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Robert Scott Speedman September 1, 1975 (1975-09-01) (age 33) London, England, U.K.
Occupation	Actor

Scott Speedman (born September 1, 1975) is a UK-born Canadian film and television actor. He is best known for playing Ben Covington in the coming-of-age television drama Felicity and lycan-vampire hybrid Michael Corvin in the gothic horror/action Underworld films.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Biography

Early life

Speedman was born Robert Scott Speedman in London, England to Scottish parents Mary Campbell, an elementary school teacher and champion runner, and Roy Speedman, a department store buyer. Scott has a younger sister Tracy Speedman who is now a teacher of grade 6 and 7 English.¹²³ At the age of four, he and his family moved to Toronto, Canada. He was a competitive swimmer who attended Earl Haig Secondary School's now defunct gifted athlete program. As a member of the Canadian Junior National Swim Team, Speedman placed ninth at the 1992 Olympic trials. Suffering a neck injury soon after, he was forced to leave the sport. To find a new focus outside of athletics, Speedman became interested in acting. He went on to attend the University of Toronto and York University to study his craft.

Career

Encouraged by a friend to appear on Speaker’s Corner, a viewer open-forum run by Toronto’s City TV, Speedman professed interest in auditioning for the role of Robin in the film Batman Forever, which was being cast in Toronto at the time. Though the appearance did earn him an audition for the role, Speedman was not cast in the role. As the role of Robin was given to Chris O'Donnell, the audition did give Speedman the exposure he needed and quickly landed an agent and began auditioning for Canadian television and film roles.

Speedman’s television debut came in 1995 on the Canadian series Net Worth. After appearing in several small television roles, Speedman decided to go to New York to study for a short time at the Neighborhood Playhouse before dropping out and returning home to Toronto.

His big break came when he got a call from a casting agent in the United States that wanted him to audition for a new television series called Felicity. Portraying brooding college student Ben Covington opposite overnight star Keri Russell as Felicity, Speedman received much acclaim on the popular series. Soon after Felicity, Speedman began to get offers for more prominent roles while working on the series. In 2000, Speedman landed the role of Billy Hannan opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in the film Duets.

After ending a four-year run on Felicity, Speedman quickly found success on the big screen. In 2003 he landed a role opposite Kurt Russell in the critically acclaimed cop-drama Dark Blue, portraying an inexperienced L.A.P.D. detective caught in a web of corruption. Next, Speedman portrayed the husband of a terminally ill woman opposite fellow Canadian and high-school alum Sarah Polley in the critically acclaimed independent drama My Life Without Me. Speedman won a "Golden Wave Award" for his work on the film.

Landing his first major starring role in a feature that same year, Speedman appeared opposite Kate Beckinsale in the supernatural thriller Underworld. Making an impression on audiences in the stylized vampire-werewolf pic, Speedman was honored with a Saturn Award in the category "Cinescape Face of the Future Award". Then, he went on to star alongside James Marsden in the thriller The 24th Day and opposite Ice Cube in XXX: State of the Union. Upon the success of the first Underwold film, Speedman reprised his role as Michael Corvin in the 2006 sequel Underworld: Evolution.

Speedman appeared with Liv Tyler in the 2008 horror thriller The Strangers, and also alongside Rachel Blanchard in Adoration, directed by Atom Egoyan.

Personal life

During his run on Felicity, he and actress Keri Russell began dating. They broke up in 2001.⁴

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Net Worth	Rookie
	Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV)	Cam Nillson	Episode: Goodbye Mr. Caine
1996	Goosebumps (TV series)	Officer Madison	Episode: Say Cheese and Die
	A Brother's Promise: The Dan Jansen Story (TV)	Jan's Friend
	Nancy Drew (TV)	Ned Nickerson
	Can I Get a Witness?
	Giant Mine (TV)	Spanky Riggs
1997	Ursa Major	Jason
	Dead Silence (TV)	Officer Stevie Cardy
	What Happened to Bobby Earl? (TV)	Steve Talbert
	Kitchen Party	Scott
	Every 9 Seconds (TV)	Greg
1998	Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples (TV)	Patric	Segment: Marie Taquet
	Felicity (TV)	Ben Covington
2000	Duets	Billy Hannan
2003	Dark Blue	Bobby Keough
	My Life Without Me	Don
	Underworld	Michael Corvin
2004	The 24th Day	Tom
2005	xXx: State of the Union	Agent Kyle Steele
2006	Underworld: Evolution	Michael Corvin
	Weirdsville	Dexter
2008	Anamorph	Carl
	The Strangers	James Hoyt
	Adoration	Tom
2009	The Last Rites of Ransom Pride	Ransom Pride

References

External links

• Scott Speedman at the Internet Movie Database
• Yahoo! Movies