Scott Coffey
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 Coffey with actress Jennifer Syme in the film Lost Highway |
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| Born | May 1, 1967 (1967-05-01) (age 41) 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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Biography
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.
Career
Scott Coffey adapted the best-selling Lolly Winston novel HAPPINESS SOLD SEPARATELY for Fox Searchlight with Julia Roberts attached to star. His screen adaptation of Haruki Murakami's ALL GOD'S CHILDREN CAN DANCE (aka K-TOWN SUPERFROG) has just been accepted to the Deauville International Film Festival. Coffey's original screenplay JUPITER was selected for the Screenwriting Lab of FIND (formerly IFP Los Angeles) and will be produced by Howard Gertler and Tim Perell at Process Media. Filming is expected to start in late 2008. He received the Breakthrough Writer/Director Award from Movieline's Hollywood Life Magazine. He was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2004. Scott's first project as a writer/director, ELLIE PARKER, starring Naomi Watts, Chevy Chase, and himself, was an Official Selection of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, won the New American Cinema Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, and received rave reviews from The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Sight and Sound and Roger Ebert. Ebert and Roeper gave Ellie Parker “Two Thumbs Up.” The film was distributed in the US by Strand Releasing is currently out on DVD. Before ELLIE PARKER was a feature film, Coffey wrote the television pilot while in development at Showtime. As an actor, Coffey has appeared in numerous films such as Nicholas Kazan's DREAM LOVER, David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and SHAG, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was raised in Kailua Hawaii, attended school in Rome, Italy, and lives in Portland Oregon with his boyfriend, novelist Blair Mastbaum.
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.
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 |
References
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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 | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
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