Scott Porter
Biography
Scott Porter is an American actor known for television roles as Jason Street in NBC's Friday Night Lights, George Tucker in The CW's Hart of Dixie, and Mayor Paul Randolph in Netflix's Ginny & Georgia. Born in Omaha, he grew up in Winter Park, Florida, and before Friday Night Lights he played Matthew in the original Off-Broadway cast of Altar Boyz in 2004. His film work includes Colin Thompson in Music and Lyrics (2007), Rex in Speed Racer (2008), Bobby in Prom Night (2008), Ben Wheatly in Bandslam (2009), and Randy in Dear John (2010). He starred in The Good Guy (2009) and appeared in The To Do List (2013). As a voice actor, he has lent his voice to comic book projects such as Marvel Anime, Harley Quinn, Batman: Arkham Knight, The Walking Dead: Season Two, and Injustice 2. In 2024 he competed on The Masked Singer, finishing second.
47years old
Turns 48 on July 14in 245 days
- Born Omaha
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Also credited as Matthew Scott Porter
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 14 years2007 to 2021
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First role
In 2004, before he was cast in Friday Night Lights, Porter took the part of Matthew in the original Off-Broadway cast of the hit Altar Boyz.
Beyond film
In Bandslam, Porter both performed and sang "Someone to Fall Back On," while his own song "Pretend" made it onto the soundtrack.
Beyond film
Porter helped start two a cappella groups while in high school: 4:2:Five, which became VoicePlay, and Mosaic. He went on to perform Off Broadway with Toxic Audio, another a cappella band.
Scott Porter movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Scott Porter shares two films with Channing Tatum, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Lasse HallströmDirector, 1 film, 2010
All films by Lasse Hallström
All films by Marc Lawrence
Andy WachowskiDirector, 1 film, 2008
All films by Andy Wachowski
Box office
What Scott Porter's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$386 million
8 of the 10 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 10 films: 8 worldwide figure; 2 never in cinemas.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 2Never in cinemas
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$146M37.8% of the total
- 2$115M29.8% of the total
- 3$94M24.3% of the total
- 4$15M3.8% of the total
- 5$12M3.2% of the total
- 6$3.6M0.9% of the total
- 7$203K0.1% of the total
- 8$101K0.0% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.