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Biographical Details

Fullname: Scott Stewart Bakula
Date of birth: 9 October 1954
Birth place: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Father: Stewart Bakula (a corporate lawyer)
Mother: Sally Bakula
Siblings: Brad, Linda (Both are younger siblings)
Marital status: Married Krista Neumann in 1981, divorced 1995. Together with Chelsea Field since 1996.
Children:  Chelsy born 1984 who can be seen in Quantum Leap's 1993 Memphis Melody episode.
               Cody, born 1991
               Wil born 1996
               Owen, born July 1999
Height: 6'0"
Hair: Brown with a white streak (The white streak in his hair appeared when he was four years old. He had been helping a neighbor painting, and his mother thought he had gotten paint in his hair.!!)
Eyes: Green
Academic history: Attended Kirkwood High School, St Louis, Missouri, graduated in 1973.
                         Attended the University of Kansas to study pre law and accounting in 1973/1974.
                         Switch to theatre studies halfway through the third semester of his sophomore year in college.
Professional Development: Bakula Productions Incorporated was set up in 1994 with its current aim to develop feature and telefilms for Paramount Network Television.


Awards:

Emmy
Nominated for OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES - 1990
(QUANTUM LEAP (Jimmy) • Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett)

Nominated for OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES - 1991
(QUANTUM LEAP •(Shock Theater - October 3, 1954) • SCOTT BAKULA as Sam Beckett)

Nominated for OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES - 1992
(QUANTUM LEAP • (Dreams) • SCOTT BAKULA as Sam Beckett)

Nominated for OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES - 1993
(QUANTUM LEAP • (Lee Harvey Oswald) • SCOTT BAKULA as Sam Beckett)


Golden Globes Award
Awarded Best Actor, Quantum Leap 1992
Nominated for Best Actor, Quantum Leap 1990
Nominated for Best Actor, Quantum Leap 1991
Nominated for Best Actor, Quantum Leap 1993


Annual Quality Awards
Awarded Best Actor, Drama Quantum Leap 1989-1990 Season
Awarded Best Actor, Drama Quantum Leap 1990-1991 Season
Awarded Best Actor, Drama Quantum Leap 1991-1992 Season
Awarded Best Actor, Drama Quantum Leap 1992-1993 Season
Awarded Specialty Player Murphy Brown 1993-1994 Season


Tony
Nominated for Best Actor Romance/Romance 1988

People's Choice Award
Nominated in the category of Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series - 2001

Saturn Awards
Nominated in the category of Best Actor In A Televisin Series - 2003


Hobbies/interest: Ice hockey, soccer, tennis, roller blade, skiing, golf, softball.

Notes: Scott's talents are as wide ranging as the come. A product of musical parents he started a rock band in the forth grade and began writing songs at a very early age. A gifted musician on the piano and keyboard. Both his vocal and musical talents can be seen on Quantum Leap. His singing talent led him him to St. Louis Symphony, and productions of Godspell, Man Of La Mancha,  Marilyn: An American Fable, Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down, Romance/Romance. Shennandoah - a dinner theater tour was Scott's first professional gig. Scott also did commercials - Folgers Coffee Commercial and Canada Dry Commercial. Scott is currently represented by International Creative Management.