Adam Scott Net Worth 2024

What is Adam Scott’s Net Worth and Salary?

Adam Scott is an American actor, director, and producer who has a net worth of $8 million. Adam Scott first grew to become broadly recognized for taking part in Ben Wyatt on the NBC sequence “Parks and Recreation” (2010–2015). He has additionally starred on the tv exhibits “Party Down” (2009–2010), “Big Little Lies” (2017–2019), and “Ghosted” (2017–2018). Adam has 115+ appearing credit to his identify, together with “Step Brothers” (2008), “A.C.O.D.” (2013), “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” (2015), “Krampus” (2015), and “Little Evil” (2019). He created, directed, and produced the four-episode Adult Swim mockumentary sequence “The Greatest Event in Television History” (2012–2014), and he directed the 2014 brief movie “The First A.D.” and the 2014 “Parks and Recreation” episode “Farmers Market.” Scott has served as a producer on a number of initiatives, similar to “Party Down,” “Ghosted,” and the ABC recreation present “Don’t,” which he hosts as effectively. Adam additionally co-created and co-hosted the Earwolf podcasts “U Talkin’ U2 To Me” (2014), “R U Talkin’ R.E.M. Re: Me?” (2018), and “U Talkin’ Talking Heads 2 My Talking Head” (2020) with comedian Scott Aukerman.

Early Life

Adam Scott was born Adam Paul Scott on April 3, 1973, in Santa Cruz, California. His mother and father, Simon (higher generally known as Doug) and Anne, are retired academics, and he has two older siblings, brother David and sister Shannon. Adam attended Harbor High School in Santa Cruz, and he graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles in 1993.

Career

Scott made his onscreen appearing debut in 1994, showing within the pilot for the MTV sequence “Dead at 21” and starting a four-episode stint on the ABC sitcom “Boy Meets World.” He guest-starred on an episode of “ER” and 6 episodes of “Murder One” in 1995, then appeared within the 1996 movies “Hellraiser: Bloodline,” “The Last Days of Frankie the Fly,” and “Star Trek: First Contact.” In the late Nineties, Adam guest-starred on seven episodes of “Party of Five” (1998–1999) and “Wasteland” (1999) and appeared within the movies “Girl” (1998), “The Lesser Evil” (1998), “Hairshirt” (1998), and “Winding Roads” (1999) and the 1999 TV film “Sagamore.” In 2002, he co-starred with Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd within the authorized thriller “High Crimes” and guest-starred on two episodes of “Six Feet Under,” and he portrayed press agent Johnny Meyer within the 2004 Oscar-winning movie “The Aviator,” which grossed $213.7 million on the field workplace. Scott guest-starred on “Veronica Mars” (2005) and “Law & Order” (2006) and appeared within the movies “The Matador” (2005), “Monster-in-Law” (2005), “Art School Confidential” (2006), “The Return” (2006), and “Knocked Up” (2007) in addition to all 10 episodes of HBO’s “Tell Me You Love Me” (2007).

In 2008, Scott performed Derek Huff within the Will Ferrell–John C. Reilly comedy “Step Brothers” and appeared within the romantic drama “Lovely, Still,” and 2009’s “The Vicious Kind” earned him awards from the Strasbourg International Film Festival and Sidewalk Film Festival. From 2009 to 2010, he performed Henry Pollard on the Starz sequence “Party Down,” which ran for 20 episodes; in March 2021, it was reported {that a} six-episode revival was within the works. In 2010, Adam guest-starred on “Eastbound & Down,” “The Sarah Silverman Program,” “Childrens Hospital,” and “Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time” and starred within the movies “Operation: Endgame,” “Leap Year,” and “Piranha 3D.” That 12 months he additionally joined the solid of “Parks and Recreation” as Ben Wyatt, state auditor and future husband of Amy Poehler’s Leslie Knope. Scott appeared in 96 episodes of the sequence in addition to 2020’s “A Parks and Recreation Special.” While starring on “Parks and Recreation,” he appeared within the movies “Our Idiot Brother” (2011), “Friends with Kids” (2011), “Bachelorette” (2012), “The Guilt Trip” (2012), “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (2013), and “They Came Together” (2014), guest-starred on “NTSF:SD:SUV::” (2011), “Burning Love” (2012–2013), and “Maron” (2013), and portrayed John Wilkes Booth in a 2013 episode of “Drunk History.”

In 2015, Adam starred in and produced the movie “The Overnight” and appeared in “Sleeping with Other People,” “Hot Tub Time Machine 2,” “Black Mass” and “Krampus.” He produced the 2016 movie “Other People,” and that 12 months he additionally appeared in “My Blind Brother” and guest-starred on “Angie Tribeca” and “Bajillion Dollar Propertie$.” From 2016 to 2018, Scott performed Trevor in 5 episodes of “The Good Place,” and in 2017, he started taking part in Ed MacKenzie on HBO’s “Big Little Lies,” Ben on Netflix’s “Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later,” and Max Jennifer on Fox’s “Ghosted.” Adam appeared within the movies “Fun Mom Dinner” (2017), “The Disaster Artist” (2017), “Between Two Ferns: The Movie” (2019), and “Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics” (2020), and he performed the lead function of Gary Bloom within the 2017 Netflix horror comedy movie “Little Evil.” In latest years, he has guest-starred on “Veep” (2017), “I’m Sorry” (2019), and “The Twilight Zone” (2019) and served as a visitor choose on the Netflix baking competitors “Nailed It!” (2020). In late 2020, it was introduced that Scott could be producing and starring on the Apple TV+ drama “Severance.”

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Personal Life

Adam married Naomi Sablan in 2005, they usually have two kids, son Graham and daughter Frankie. The couple has produced a number of initiatives collectively, together with “The Overnight,” “Fun Mom Dinner,” and “Ghosted.”

Scott is a big fan of R.E.M. and was an additional within the band’s 1992 “Drive” music video. He additionally loves “Star Wars,” and through a 2015 “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” interview, Adam revealed that when he was a baby, he invited Mark Hamill to his celebration. When Kristen Bell guest-hosted the present on May 4, 2017 (aka “Star Wars” Day), she organized for a lightsaber-wielding Hamill to shock Scott, who remarked, “This actually is without doubt one of the greatest moments of my life.”

Awards and Nominations

In 2009, “The Vicious Kind” earned Scott a Best Performance award on the Sidewalk Film Festival and a Festival Prize for Best Actor on the Strasbourg International Film Festival. He acquired Best Actor in a Comedy Series nominations from the Critics Choice Television Awards (2013 and 2014) and Online Film & Television Association (2012 and 2013) for “Parks and Recreation,” and the Online Film & Television Association additionally nominated him for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for “The Good Place” in 2019. Adam has earned 5 Gold Derby Award nominations, three for “Parks and Recreation” (Comedy Lead Actor), and one every for “Big Little Lies” (TV Movie/Mini Supporting Actor) and “The Good Place” (Comedy Guest Actor). He acquired a Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice TV: Villain for “The Good Place” in 2019, and the “Big Little Lies” solid earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2020. Scott has additionally acquired two Independent Spirit Award nominations, Best Male Lead for “The Vicious Kind” and Best First Feature for “Other People.”

Real Estate

In March of 2007 Adam paid $889,000 for a house in LA’s Silver Lake neighborhood. He offered this house on the market in October 2012 for a bit of over $1 million.

In December 2013 Adam paid $1.8 million for a house within the Hollywood Hills overlooking the valley.