Scott Coffey

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Scott Coffey (born May 1, 1967 [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/56/Scott-Coffey.html Scott Coffey Biography (1967-) ] ] ) is an American actor, director, and writer. His acting credits include films such as "Shag", "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Dream Lover", and "Mulholland Drive". He was nominated for a supporting actor Independent Spirit Award for his work in "Shag".

Biography

Personal life

Coffey was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he began his acting career appearing in school plays, community theatre and with the Hawaii Performing Arts Company. He also appeared in several episodic television shows. Coffey lives in Portland, Oregon with his boyfriend, Blair Mastbaum. He counts Naomi Watts, and David Lynch as close friends.

Career

Scott Coffey adapted the best-selling Lolly Winston novel HAPPINESS SOLD SEPARATELY for Fox Searchlight with Julia Roberts attached to star. His screen adaptation of Haruki Murakami's ALL GOD'S CHILDREN CAN DANCE (aka K-TOWN SUPERFROG) has just been accepted to the Deauville International Film Festival. Coffey's original screenplay JUPITER was selected for the Screenwriting Lab of FIND (formerly IFP Los Angeles) and will be produced by Howard Gertler and Tim Perell at Process Media. Filming is expected to start in late 2008. He received the Breakthrough Writer/Director Award from Movieline's Hollywood Life Magazine. He was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2004. Scott's first project as a writer/director, ELLIE PARKER, starring Naomi Watts, Chevy Chase, and himself, was an Official Selection of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, won the New American Cinema Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, and received rave reviews from The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Sight and Sound and Roger Ebert. Ebert and Roeper gave Ellie Parker “Two Thumbs Up.” The film was distributed in the US by Strand Releasing is currently out on DVD. Before ELLIE PARKER was a feature film, Coffey wrote the television pilot while in development at Showtime. As an actor, Coffey has appeared in numerous films such as Nicholas Kazan's DREAM LOVER, David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and SHAG, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was raised in Kailua Hawaii, attended school in Rome, Italy, and lives in Portland Oregon with his boyfriend, novelist Blair Mastbaum.

At sixteen, with the money he had earned acting, he travelled to Europe. Inspired by Bertolucci's "La Luna," he felt compelled to visit Rome along with Paris and Budapest. He stayed three years, attending high school in Rome and acting in seven films, including "Once Upon a Time in America," and the CBS miniseries "Christopher Columbus." While on location for "Christopher Columbus," Coffey was contacted by the William Morris Agency and moved to New York, where he signed with the agency and studied acting while co-starring in the off-Broadway play "It's All Talk." After a year he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his film career and has been working ever since, appearing in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Some Kind of Wonderful," "Shag" "SpaceCamp" His television work includes a special "Twilight Zone" entitled "Private Channel", as well as a memorable "Amazing Stories (TV series)" episode directed by Robert Zemeckis and featuring Christopher Lloyd and Coffey's costar from "Some Kind of Wonderful", Mary Stuart Masterson.

Filmography

References

External links

* [http://www.scottcoffey.net/] Official Site
* [http://www.rainbownetwork.com/Film/detail.asp?iData=25951&iChannel=14&nChannel=Film Scott Coffey Interview]
* [http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/ellieparker/ "Ellie Parker" trailer]
* [http://www.strandreleasing.com/In_Theaters_Details.asp_Q_id_E_189 "Ellie Parker" @ strandreleasing.com]

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