Scott Coffey
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 Coffey with actress Jennifer Syme in the film Lost Highway |
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| Born | May 1, 1967  Honolulu, Hawaii |
Scott Coffey (born May 1, 1967[1]) is an American actor, director, and writer. His acting credits include films such as Shag, Some Kind of Wonderful, Dream Lover, and Mulholland Drive. He was nominated for a supporting actor Independent Spirit Award for his work in Shag.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Coffey was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he began his acting career appearing in school plays, community theatre and with the Hawaii Performing Arts Company. He also appeared in several episodic television shows. Coffey lives in Portland, Oregon with his boyfriend, Blair Mastbaum. He counts Naomi Watts, and David Lynch as close friends.
[edit] Career
At sixteen, with the money he had earned acting, he travelled to Europe. Inspired by Bertolucci's La Luna, he felt compelled to visit Rome along with Paris and Budapest. He stayed three years, attending high school in Rome and acting in seven films, including Once Upon a Time in America, and the CBS miniseries Christopher Columbus. While on location for Christopher Columbus, Coffey was contacted by the William Morris Agency and moved to New York, where he signed with the agency and studied acting while co-starring in the off-Broadway play It's All Talk. After a year he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his film career and has been working ever since, appearing in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Some Kind of Wonderful, "Shag" SpaceCamp His television work includes a special Twilight Zone entitled Private Channel, as well as a memorable Amazing Stories (TV series) episode directed by Robert Zemeckis and featuring Christopher Lloyd and Coffey's costar from Some Kind of Wonderful, Mary Stuart Masterson.
Coffey's feature film, Ellie Parker (2005), which finished production in July of 2005, was an Official Selection of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and won the New American Cinema Special Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival. It was released in the fall of that year by Strand Releasing to mostly rave reviews. He wrote another film based on the short story, All God's Children Can Dance by Haruki Murakami. Coffey is writing the film adaptation of Lolly Winston's novel Happiness Sold Separately for Fox Searchlight, which he will direct, with Julia Roberts starring, the adaptation of Andy Greenwald's novel Miss Misery and is in pre production on the film Jupiter which he will direct. Jupiter was co- written with Blair Mastbaum.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1984 | Once Upon a Time in America | Teenager | uncredited |
| Warrior of the Lost World | Geek | ||
| 1986 | SpaceCamp | Gardener | |
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Adams | ||
| 1987 | Some Kind of Wonderful | Ray | |
| Zombie High | Felner | ||
| 1988 | Satisfaction | Nickie | |
| 1989 | Shag | Chip Guillyard | |
| 1990 | Wild at Heart | Billy | |
| 1991 | Shout | Bradley | |
| 1993 | Wayne's World 2 | Heavy Metaller | |
| The Temp | Lance | ||
| 1994 | Dream Lover | Billy | |
| 1995 | Breaking Free | Blitz | |
| Tank Girl | Donner | ||
| 1997 | Lost Highway | Teddy | |
| 1998 | Route 9 | Nate | |
| 2001 | Ellie Parker | Chris | short film |
| Never Date an Actress | The caring boyfriend | ||
| Mulholland Drive | Wilkins | ||
| 2002 | Rabbits | Jack Rabbit | |
| 2005 | Ellie Parker | Chris | feature film |
| 2006 | Inland Empire | Jack Rabbit | |
| 2007 | Normal Adolescent Behavior | Philosophy Teacher |
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Scott Coffey at the Internet Movie Database
- Scott Coffey Interview
- Ellie Parker trailer
- Ellie Parker @ strandreleasing.com
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| NAME | Coffey, Scott |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967-5-1 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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