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Adam Scott

Highest Rated: 94% Passenger Side (2009)

Lowest Rated: 11% Madame Web (2024)

Birthday: Apr 3, 1973

Birthplace: Santa Cruz, California, USA

Despite often playing irreverent and smarmy characters in critically acclaimed films and on television, actor Adam Scott possesses ability to connect with an audience due to equal parts charm and skill. He enthralled as one-half of a barren couple pushed to desperation on the provocative and sexually charged HBO drama series "Tell Me You Love Me" (2007), while his sad sack character on "Party Down" (Starz, 2009-2010), about wannabe actors stuck working for tips while waiting to be discovered, resonated with anyone who had ever worked a dead end job. A darker dramatic turn in the feature film "The Vicious Kind" as a misanthropic scholar on the brink of a breakdown and obsessed with his brother's girlfriend showed new sides to his acting skill, but his breakthrough role as sweetly nerdy civil servant Ben Wyatt on the hit sitcom "Parks and Recreation" (NBC, 2009-15), helped establish Scott as one of the most compelling and versatile of actors working on television. Eclectic roles on shows ranging from the intense drama "Big Little Lies" (HBO 2017) to cult comedy reboot "Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later" (Netflix 2017), along with his own surreal comic experiments on the Adult Swim network and film roles in indie comedies like "Friends With Kids" (2011) and "A.C.O.D." (2013) showed off his remarkable range.

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Highest rated movies

94% 60% Passenger Side
Watchlist
92% 47% Little Evil Watchlist
89% 58% Who Loves the Sun
Watchlist
87% 79% Other People
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86% 79% The Aviator Watchlist 83% 54% The Overnight Watchlist 80% 55% My Blind Brother Watchlist
75% 45% Piranha
Watchlist
75% 66% The Matador
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73% 68% Black Mass
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
11% 56% Madame Web Unknown (Character) $43.7M 2024
60% 70% Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics Unknown (Character) - 2020
73% 44% Between Two Ferns: The Movie Self - 2019
48% 42% Flower Will (Character) $327.4K 2017
92% 47% Little Evil Gary (Character) - 2017
35% 36% Fun Mom Dinner Tom (Character),
Executive Producer
- 2017
40% 41% The Most Hated Woman in America Unknown (Character) - 2017
80% 55% My Blind Brother Robbie (Character) - 2016
87% 79% Other People Producer $62.6K 2016
66% 52% Krampus Tom (Character) $42.7M 2015
73% 68% Black Mass FBI Agent Robert Fitzpatrick (Character) $62.6M 2015
64% 56% Sleeping With Other People Matthew Sobvechik (Character) $814.8K 2015
83% 54% The Overnight Alex (Character) $1.1M 2015
14% 26% Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Adam Jr. (Character) $12.3M 2015
No Score Yet 89% Burning Love 2 Damien (Character) - 2014
52% 71% The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Ted Hendricks (Character) $58.2M 2013
52% 28% A.C.O.D. Carter (Character),
Executive Producer
$172.3K 2013
No Score Yet 30% See Girl Run Jason (Character) - 2012
36% 39% The Guilt Trip Andrew Margolis Jr. (Character) $37.1M 2012
58% 33% Bachelorette Clyde (Character) $418.3K 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Burning Love Damien Assante (Character) - 2012
66% 49% Friends With Kids Jason (Character) $7.3M 2011
70% 51% Our Idiot Brother Jeremy (Character) $24.8M 2011
75% 45% Piranha Novak (Character) $25.0M 2010
40% 25% Operation: Endgame Magician (Character) - 2010
24% 47% Leap Year Jeremy (Character) $25.9M 2010
94% 60% Passenger Side Michael (Character),
Executive Producer
- 2009
70% 70% The Vicious Kind Caleb Sinclaire (Character) - 2009
73% 75% Lovely, Still Mike (Character) $124.7K 2008
54% 69% Step Brothers Derek Huff (Character) $100.5M 2008
36% 23% August Joshua Sterling (Character) $11.8K 2008
No Score Yet 18% Corporate Affairs Jack Hightower (Character) - 2008
57% 41% First Snow Tom Morelane (Character) $213.0K 2006
89% 58% Who Loves the Sun Daniel Bloom (Character) - 2006
15% 32% The Return Kurt Setzer (Character) $7.7M 2006
75% 66% The Matador Phil Garrison (Character) $12.6M 2005
19% 55% Monster-in-Law Remy (Character) $82.9M 2005
86% 79% The Aviator Johnny Meyer (Character) $102.6M 2004
25% No Score Yet Off the Lip David (Character) $14.8K 2004
22% 41% Torque McPherson (Character) $21.2M 2004
No Score Yet 0% The Killer Next Door Ronnie Schwann (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 65% Two Days Stu (Character) - 2003
31% 50% High Crimes Embry (Character) $41.5M 2002
No Score Yet 63% Seven and a Match Peter (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Winding Roads Brian Calhoun (Character) - 2000
60% 73% The Lesser Evil Young George (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 40% Dinner & Driving Larry (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Payback Adam Stanfill (Character) - 1997

TV

Credit
97% 88% Severance Mark (Character) 2022 2025
No Score Yet 42% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2011-2013 2015 2017 2022 2024
72% 60% Loot John Novak (Guest Star) 2024
93% 90% Parks and Recreation Ben Wyatt (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
2010-2015 2020 2024
94% 92% Party Down Henry Pollard (Character) 2009-2010 2023
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2015 2017 2022-2023
No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2022-2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Talk Guest 2019 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Guest 2022
No Score Yet 67% The Good Doctor Writer 2022
No Score Yet 28% The Drew Barrymore Show Guest 2022
No Score Yet 18% The Late Late Show With James Corden Guest 2015-2017 2019 2022
No Score Yet 50% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2019 2022
No Score Yet 55% The Kelly Clarkson Show Guest 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Duncanville Nick (Guest Voice) 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ellen DeGeneres Show Guest 2011 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Don't Host 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Conan Guest 2011-2013 2015-2017 2019
89% 89% Big Little Lies Ed Mackenzie (Character) 2017 2019
67% 44% The Twilight Zone Justin Sanderson (Character) 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Caption Contest Guest 2019
75% 84% I'm Sorry Unknown (Guest Star) 2019
97% 89% The Good Place Trevor (Guest Star) 2016-2018
59% 70% Ghosted Max Jennifer (Character),
Executive Producer
2017-2018
83% 70% The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale Unknown (Guest Star) 2018
No Score Yet 12% The View Guest 2015 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Guest 2017
No Score Yet 57% Wet Hot American Summer - Ten Years Later Ben (Character) 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Chew Guest 2017
No Score Yet 91% Comedy Bang! Bang! Guest 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ Unknown (Guest Star) 2016
96% 74% Angie Tribeca Surgeon (Guest Star) 2016
100% 78% Late Show With David Letterman Guest 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Pete Holmes Show Guest 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hollywood Game Night Guest 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Larry King Now Guest 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Guest 2013
No Score Yet 81% Drunk History Unknown (Guest Star) 2013
75% 82% Maron Himself (Guest Star) 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Guest 2011 2013
No Score Yet 84% Robot Chicken Unknown (Guest Voice) 2013
100% No Score Yet Funny or Die Presents Narrator (Voice) 2011
91% 89% Eastbound & Down Pat Anderson (Guest Star) 2009-2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bonnie Hunt Show Guest 2010
52% No Score Yet Trust Me Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
62% No Score Yet Tell Me You Love Me Palek (Character) 2007
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
92% 79% Veronica Mars Unknown (Guest Star) 2005
No Score Yet 65% CSI: Miami Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
81% 96% Six Feet Under Ben Cooper (Guest Star) 2002
6% No Score Yet Wasteland Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet 90% Party of Five Unknown (Guest Star) 1998-1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet High Incident Unknown (Guest Star) 1996
83% 95% NYPD Blue Gordon Puterbaugh (Guest Star) 1996
91% 67% Murder One Unknown (Guest Star) 1995
No Score Yet 86% Boy Meets World Senior (Guest Star) 1994-1995