Campbell Scott Biography

Campbell Scott (born July 19, 1961 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American actor. He is one of the sons of actors George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst.
As an actor, Scott is best known for his role in the movie Dying Young, in which he starred with Julia Roberts. He also appeared in the movie Singles.
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In 1996, he teamed up with Stanley Tucci to direct the film Big Night. The film met with much critical acclaim and was nominated for the "Grand Jury Prize" at the Sundance Film Festival. For their work, Scott and Tucci won both the New York Film Critics Circle Award and the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for "Best New Director."

Scott made his film debut with a small role in "Five Corners" (1987), but it was his memorable turn as a man who watches most of his friends die of AIDS in "Longtime Companion" (1989) that first generated "buzz" about his film persona. He joined John Malkovich and Debra Winger in the North African desert for Bernardo Bertolucci's vividly atmospheric attempt to capture Paul Bowles' novel "The Sheltering Sky" (1990), and though the picture satisfied neither fans of the book nor those ignorant of the source material, some considered Bertolucci's inclusion of Bowles' gentle, distinctive presence onscreen as a semi-surreal, Chorus-like narrator nearly worth the price of admission. Scott starred as a terminally ill young man in "Dying Young" (1991), which not even co-star Julia Roberts could propel to commercial success, but fared better as Kyra Sedgwick's earnest love interest in Cameron Crowe's Gen-X romantic comedy "Singles" (1992).

He further displayed his versatility essaying a British technician who gets involved with a mysterious woman (Isabella Rossellini) in the Cold War Berlin of "The Innocent" (1993; released in USA in 1995) and in Alan Rudolph's underrated "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" (1994), giving a strong performance as writer and wit Robert Benchley, particularly in his recreation of Benchley's famous "Treasurer's Report" monologue.

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