Campbell Scott Biography

Fast Facts

• Awarded the Career Achievement Award by the Westchester County Film Festival in 2002, also winning the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for comedy "Roger Dodger" in the same year
• Majored in theatre and performing arts at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis, graduating in 1983
• Quote: "After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing․"
• Quote: "I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it․"
• Close friends with actor Stanley Tucci, who helped him co-produce 1996 films "The Daytrippers" and "Big Night․"
• Served as the reader for the audiobook versions of Stephen King's bestsellers "The Shining" and "Cell," and provided the voice-over for a Häagen-Dazs TV commercial "Ode to Flavor․"
• As a child, appeared in three different Broadway productions with his mother, actress Colleen Dewhurst
• Listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1990" in film historian John Willis' extensive book "Screen World 1991: Volume 42․"