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Seann William Scott
Scott at the premiere of Role Models, 2008
Born	October 3, 1976 (1976-10-03) (age 33) Cottage Grove, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation	Actor/Comedian
Years active	1996–present

Seann William Scott (born October 3, 1976) is an American actor and comedian. He is perhaps best known for playing Steve Stifler in the American Pie series of teen sex comedy films. He is also known for his performances in the films Final Destination, Road Trip, Dude, Where's My Car?, Evolution, The Rundown, The Dukes of Hazzard, Role Models, and Cop Out.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Filmography 4 References 5 External links

Early life

Scott, the youngest of seven children, was born in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, the son of Patricia Ann (née Simons), a homemaker, and William Frank Scott, a factory worker.¹ His oldest brother Daniel while at the University of Wisconsin–Madison helped found The Onion and was among the earliest writers for it.² He was inspired to become an actor while working at the local movie theater and seeing all the movies he could watch free. He graduated from Crestview Elementary School and Park High School. After he graduated high school, he attended Glendale Community College.³ His first professional gig was on television in the music video for "Hole in My Soul" by Aerosmith. Soon after the video, he appeared in Chad's World, a gay-themed TV show broadcast on the Web by the short-lived Digital Entertainment Network

Career

Scott's first commercial success came with the 1999 movie American Pie as Steve Stifler, a role he reprised in two sequels American Pie 2, and American Wedding. He announced during an interview on BBC Radio 1 that he only received $8,000 for this first movie. Though the character of "Steve Stifler" propelled Scott into the public consciousness, the actor has mentioned in a variety of interviews his fear of typecasting, which has led to him choose to play different types of characters post-American Pie such as hapless nerd role in the film Final Destination and a harmless stoner character in Dude, Where's My Car? alongside Ashton Kutcher.

He made an appearance in Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back as a guitar-playing animal rights activist and has a starring part as a police officer in Southland Tales, where he re-unites with fellow actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, with whom he'd previously worked in The Rundown. Scott hosted the MTV Movie Awards 2003 alongside Justin Timberlake. The two performed several skits, including scenes from The Matrix Reloaded. This was very popular and even featured on The Matrix Reloaded DVD. He has also hosted Saturday Night Live and appeared as a guest co-host on Live with Regis and Kelly. He co-starred in Cop Out, Kevin Smith's action comedy, alongside Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Jim Norton and Adam Brody.⁴

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1997	Born Into Exile	Derek	TV movie
1999	American Pie	Steve Stifler	Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Sleazebag
2000	Nox	Jack Mower	Video Game voice.
2000	Final Destination	Billy Hitchcock
	Road Trip	E.L.
	Dude, Where's My Car?	Chester	Nominated - Teen Choice Awards (Choice Chemistry, shared with Ashton Kutcher)
2001	Evolution	Wayne Grey
	Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back	Brent
	American Pie 2	Steve Stifler	Teen Choice Award for Choice Sleazebag MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (shared with Jason Biggs) Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance
2002	Stark Raving Mad	Ben McGewan
2003	Old School	Peppers
	Bulletproof Monk	Kar
	MTV Movie Awards Reloaded	Himself/Clones of himself
	American Wedding	Steve Stifler	Nominated — Teen Choice Awards (Choice Movie Blush, Choice Movie Actor - Comedy) Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Sleazebag
	The Rundown/Welcome to the Jungle	Travis Alfred Walker	This is the first film which he stars alongside Dwayne Johnson
2005	The Dukes of Hazzard	Bo Duke	Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Team (shared with Jessica Simpson and Johnny Knoxville)
2006	Ice Age: The Meltdown	Crash	Voice
2007	Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot	Jeff
	Southland Tales	Roland Taverner / Ronald Taverner	This is the second film which he stars alongside Dwayne Johnson
	Mr. Woodcock	John Farley
2008	The Promotion	Doug
	Role Models	Anson Wheeler
2009	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	Crash	Voice
	Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach	Gary Houseman
	Planet 51	Skiff	This is the third film which he stars (voices) alongside Dwayne Johnson
2010	Cop Out	Dave	Action Comedy with Bruce Willis
2011	Hit Somebody	Buddy	Third film with Kevin Smith as director, based on the song of the same name by Warren Zevon

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Seann William Scott

• Seann William Scott at the Internet Movie Database
• Seann William Scott at TV.com

Preceded by Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jack Black

MTV Movie Awards host 2003 (with Justin Timberlake)

Succeeded by Lindsay Lohan