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Seann William Scott grew up in Cottage Grove a small Minnesota town of 33,000. He was the seventh child for his father, a factory worker, and mother, a homemaker. He knew from
an early age that he wanted to be a professional actor so he auditioned at age 12 for a role in the series Baywatch, without success. He graduated early in 1996 from Park High School. Seann was
discovered at a talent competition in Los Angeles, and almost immediately was flown to New York by ABC to test for "All My Children." With a failed audition for the ABC soap, Scott landed a
guest stint on The WB's sitcom "Unhappily Ever After" in 1997. That same year he made his TV-movie debut with a supporting role in the NBC fact-based drama "Born Into Exile" and was
featured the following year in an episode of the ABC sitcom "Something So Right".
Scott's first commercial success came with the huge 1999 hit movie "American Pie" as Steve
Stifler, a role which he later reprised for both sequels.
He continued down this comedic path with three more successful teen-movie offerings Final Destination, Road Trip, and Dude, Where's My
Car?, all released in 2000. But 2001 also found Scott taking roles that would require him to move beyond the dumb-jock mode that has brought him fame; he appeared in Kevin Smith's "Jay and Silent
Bob Strike Back", as well as Ivan Reitman's alien comedy "Evolution" with Julianne Moore. He became one of the central characters in the third venture, "American Wedding" (2003),
which chronicled the final maturation of Stifler and showed considerable leading man charm as a scoundrel in the unimpressive indie "Stark Raving Mad" (2002).
A willingness to take less
attractive roles has earned blond, athletic Seann William Scott strong character parts like the misguided bully or the sympathetic class clown in lieu of the romantic lead, setting him apart from the
pack of young teen stars.
In 2003, Scott tried on the role of an action hero when he joined Chow Yun Fat in "BulletProok Monk", as the two comic odd-couples with the mission to protect a
powerful ancient scroll; and the actor had a funny cameo as Peppers in the comedy hit "Old School" (2003). He co-starred opposite The Rock in the crowd-pleasing action-comedy-buddy flick
"The Rundown" as the irritating--but innocent--quarry of the bounty hunter muscleman. Scott was teamed with Johnny Knoxville to play a modern day incarnation of Bo and Luke Duke in the dumb but
amusing big screen version of "The Dukes of Hazzard" (2005), though both actors were hidden by the hype surrounding the acting debut of Jessica Simpson.
In an interview with People
magazine in 2003, the star said he does not normally wear undergarments, a custom known by some as "going commando."
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