Scott Bakula
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Scott Stewart Bakula was born on October 9, 1954 in St. Louis,
Missouri, to Sally (Zumwinkel) and J. Stewart Bakula, a lawyer. He is
of German, as well as Czech, Austrian, Scottish and English ancestry.
He comes from a musical family. In the fourth grade, he started a rock
band and wrote songs for them, he later sang with the St. Louis
Symphony. He studied Law at the University of Kansas until his
sophomore year when he left to pursue acting. In 1976, he was first
hired professionally in the role of Sam in "Shenandoah" and went to New
York. After several small roles on television, he starred opposite
Dean Stockwell in the science fiction
series Quantum Leap (1989).
Bakula played Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who was trapped by a
malfunction of his time machine to correct things gone wrong in the
past. He won a Golden Globe in 1992 for Best Performance by an Actor in
a TV series - Drama for
Quantum Leap (1989) and was
nominated for a Tony Award in 1988. He also starred in the prequel
series Enterprise (2001) as
Jonathan Archer, the captain of Earth's first long-range starship.
Today, he lives in Los Angeles, California and has a farm in upstate
New York.