Scott Wolf Biography

Biography

Birth Name
Scott Richard Wolf
Date of birth (location)
4 June 1968
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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A boyishly handsome actor often compared to Tom Cruise, Scott Wolf parlayed his dimpled hunkiness into a regular role as one of the five orphans who remain together following their parents' sudden death in Fox's "Party of Five" (1994-2000), a dramatic series consistently applauded since its inception for the quality of its writing. Burt Reynolds first saw potential in the dimples, casting him in the recurring role of a heroic high school quarterback during the final two seasons (1992-94) of "Evening Shade" (CBS), and Wolf also enjoyed exposure on "Blossom", "The Commish", "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" and "Saved by the Bell" before landing his star-making role. On stage, he acted in a Williamstown Theater Festival revival of Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End" and appeared in productions of "American Buffalo", "True West" and "Mother Courage", among others.

Wolf broke into features starring in "Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde" (1993), a youthful crime wave adventure, and "Double Dragon" (1994), a futuristic adventure about two brothers battling an evil crime lord for possession of the magical Double Dragon medallion. Both films went largely unnoticed, but his next two did not. In 1996, he played narrator Chuck Gieg in Ridley Scott's "White Squall", which focused on a group of young male students aboard a floating prep school in the early 1960s, and later that year portrayed the wannabe underwear model romancing Juliet Lewis in Robert Harling's "Evening Star", Though neither fared well at the box office, they did nothing to diminish his reputation as a heartthrob with talent and moxie. Always intense as the troubled middle brother on "PO5", Wolf really sank his teeth into his drinking story line, garnering praise for the self-destructive behavior that eventually led him to rehab.