Peter Scolari Biography

Fast Facts

• Knew he wanted to be an actor after performing in a high-school production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• Honed his acting skills as an apprentice at the Colonnades Theatre Lab in New York
• Appeared as a regular on the short-lived ABC sitcom Goodtime Girls in 1980
• Big break came later in 1980 when he was cast opposite Tom Hanks on Bosom Buddies
• Played a wacky inventor in the 1997 TV version of the hit movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
• Reteamed with Tom Hanks on That Thing You Do!, From the Earth to the Moon and The Polar Express
• Made his Broadway debut in Hairspray in 2003; later appeared on the Great White Way in Sly Fox and Magic/Bird
• Is an accomplished juggler