- Born
- Birth nameJohn Marcus Mcnairy
- Nickname
- Scooter
- Height5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
- During the early 2000s, actor Scoot McNairy quickly came to specialize in portrayals of colorful and individualistic young men with a slightly rebellious edge. McNairy began during the early to mid-2000s, with bit parts in films including Wonderland (2003), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), and Art School Confidential (2006). He took his first bow as a producer with 2007's In Search of a Midnight Kiss, in which he also starred. That indie romantic comedy concerns a young man (McNairy) all washed up on New Year's Eve -- until an impulsive ad on Craigslist leads him to the great love of his life (Sara Simmonds) and an extraordinary night on the town.- IMDb Mini Biography By: scaryofmonsters
- SpouseWhitney Able(June 14, 2010 - 2019) (divorced, 2 children)
- ParentsAlicia Ann McNairyStewart Hall McNairy
- Portraying colorful and individualistic young men with a slightly rebellious edge.
- Tends to play downbeat characters who suffer a lot.
- Worked as a carpenter and set designer on film sets.
- Has no formal acting training.
- He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners in consecutive years: Argo (2012) and 12 Years a Slave (2013).
- His father started to call him Scooter from when Scoot was two years old because he used to "scoot around on his butt".
- He originally wanted to be a cinematographer.
- I've been asked, 'What was your big break?' I don't feel like I've had a big break. It's been a slow, slow break. I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.
- [on the prospect of stardom] I'm really not thinking too much about that. I'm trying to take good scripts with good stories, and figure out where I fit into those stories. Whether I want to stick around with character roles or be a leading man isn't clear. Leading roles are something that I think is around the corner for me, but financing is always a very important aspect. I don't know if my name is valuable enough at this point that people are going to put $20 million on a film with me as the lead.
- [performing Jesse in 'Touchy Feely'] I think I'm incredibly distanced from a character like that. I'm not somebody who's thirty or thirty-one and lost. I'm very specific in what I want in my life, and I'm going after it, whereas Jesse is more like, 'Whatever happens happens. Who cares?'. I personally have never felt that way.
- [on playing Frankie in 'Killing Them Softly'] The accent was something I sort of made up. My own take on a Boston accent I guess. I worked really hard on that character, probably more so than I've worked on some other ones, and maybe that was because I felt there was a lot more riding on it.
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