17 Facts About Scott Bakula

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Scott Bakula is known for his roles in two science-fiction television series: as Sam Beckett on Quantum Leap and as Captain Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise.

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Scott Bakula has a younger brother and a younger sister.

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Scott Bakula attended Jefferson College, followed by the University of Kansas for a time, but left, saying:.

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Scott Bakula moved to New York City in 1976, made his Broadway debut playing baseball legend Joe DiMaggio in 1983's Marilyn: An American Fable, and appeared in the well-received 1985 Off-Broadway production Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down; he would later appear in its Pasadena Playhouse production.

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Scott Bakula played time traveler Dr Sam Beckett, who was trapped by a malfunction of his time machine to correct things gone wrong in the past.

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Scott Bakula voiced Danny Cat in the animated film Cats Don't Dance.

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Scott Bakula played the aging veteran pitcher Gus Cantrell in Major League: Back to the Minors, the final movie in the Major League trilogy.

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8.

Scott Bakula played Jim Olmeyer, the same-sex partner of Sam Robards' Jim Berkley, in the film American Beauty.

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Scott Bakula played Jonathan Archer, captain of Earth's first Warp 5 interstellar starship, on Star Trek: Enterprise from 2001 to 2005.

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Scott Bakula starred in the musical Shenandoah, a play which provided his first professional theatrical role in 1976, at Ford's Theatre, in 2006.

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Scott Bakula appeared as the character Chris Fulbright in the five-episode run of the Tracey Ullman sketch comedy series State of the Union on Showtime.

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In September 2011, Scott Bakula starred in Terrible Advice by Saul Rubinek at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

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In February 2014, Scott Bakula was cast as the lead in a backdoor pilot for the NCIS spin-off series, NCIS: New Orleans, which began as a two-part episode of its parent series in the spring season of 2014.

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In 2016 Bakula appeared as a guest judge on the HGTV show Brothers Take New Orleans with Property Brothers hosts Jonathan and Drew Scott.

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Scott Bakula made a cameo appearance as himself in the season 12 opening episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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Scott Bakula married actress Chelsea Field in 2009 after a 15-year relationship.

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Scott Bakula says he was "hardly ever home for four and a half seasons" of Quantum Leap, so he chose to prioritize his family life on later projects.