Scott Sowers

Scott Sowers was an American actor whose career began on the stage. Born in Arlington County, Virginia, he attended the University of North Carolina's School of the Arts, then made his way to New York. In 1991 he helped found the Signature Theatre Company, and a Drama-Logue Award came his way for playing the colonel in the Shubert Theatre staging of A Few Good Men. Television viewers knew him as Detective Parker in the ABC series Cracker from 1997 to 1999, and he played the role of Stanley Kowalski in the play A Streetcar Named Desire, staged at Studio 54. His films included Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), where he was one of the mercenaries, and Dead Man Walking (1995), in which he played a prison guard. He appeared in Erin Brockovich in 2000 and as a condemned man in True Grit (2010), and he recorded audiobooks and voiced characters in video games.