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3 Personal life  





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Scoot McNairy
McNairy in 2022

Born

John Marcus McNairy


(1977-11-11) November 11, 1977 (age 46)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.

Occupation(s)

Actor, film producer

Years active

2001–present

Spouse

(m. 2010; div. 2019)

Children

2

John Marcus "Scoot" McNairy[1] (born November 11, 1977[1]) is an American actor and film producer. He is known for his roles in Monsters, Argo, Killing Them Softly, 12 Years a Slave, Gone Girl, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.[2] In television, he starred in the AMC period drama Halt and Catch Fire, True Detective, Narcos: Mexico, and the Netflix western miniseries Godless.

Early life[edit]

McNairy was born on November 11, 1977, in Dallas, Texas, to Alicia Ann McNairy (née Merchant) and Stewart Hall McNairy.[1] In addition to a house in Dallas, the family had a ranch in rural Paris, Texas, where they spent time on weekends and holidays.[3][4] Growing up, he did theater in after-school programs.[2] His father began calling him Scooter when he was about two years old. "A lot of people are like, oh, it must be some amazing story. But it's because I used to scoot around on my butt", says McNairy.[5]

McNairy has stated that he is "highly dyslexic" and that he had to "go to dyslexia school for four years." He describes himself as a visual learner and was attracted to films for that reason.[6] McNairy attended Lake Highlands High School.[7]

Career[edit]

Actor[edit]

McNairy moved to Austin, Texas, when he was 18 to attend the University of Texas at Austin.[8] In 2001 he appeared in Wrong Numbers, written and directed by Alex Holdridge, which won the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival.[4] Holdridge was hired to remake Wrong Numbers into a studio picture, which was never made.[5] Interested in cinematography and photography, McNairy moved to Los Angeles to go to film school.[4] He attended for a year,[9] then dropped out and began working in film production, doing carpentry and building film sets. He then worked as an extra before eventually securing a consistent job in more than 200 TV commercials. He eventually was offered roles in feature films, a career he has been pursuing since 2001.[2][10]

During the early 2000s, McNairy portrayed colorful and individualistic young men with a rebellious edge. He had small parts in films, including Wonderland, Herbie: Fully Loaded, and Art School Confidential. 2010 saw the release of the alien invader film MonstersbyGareth Edwards, in which McNairy starred and featured largely improvised dialogue and was shot in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Texas.[11][12][13]

In 2012, McNairy played Frankie in director Andrew Dominik's film Killing Them Softly opposite Brad Pitt.[14] This led to a string of high-profile roles, including Ben Affleck's Argo,[3] Gus Van Sant's Promised Land, and Lynn Shelton's Touchy Feely opposite Rosemarie DeWitt.[15] For his role as Joe Stafford in Argo, he studied Persian, which he spoke in his final monologue in the film.[16] In 2013, he appeared in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, which again included Pitt. McNairy filmed his second movie with Michael Fassbender, Leonard Abrahamson's Frank, and co-starred in Jaume Collet-Serra's Non-Stop, opposite Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore.[16]

He appears in David Michod's The Rover opposite Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce. McNairy starred as computer engineer and internet pioneer Gordon Clark in the AMC Network drama Halt and Catch Fire, about the personal computer business in the 1980s and 1990s.[17][18] The series ran for four seasons from 2014–2017 to high critical acclaim.[19] By coincidence, his character's wife in Halt and Catch Fire is portrayed by actor Kerry Bishé, who also played his spouse in Argo. McNairy played Wallace Keefe in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.[20] In September 2016, McNairy was announced as a cast member in the third season of the FX drama Fargo.[21]

In 2017, McNairy played crime boss Novak in the crime drama Sleepless and returned to television when he co-starred in the Netflix western-miniseries Godless as shortsighted sheriff Bill McNue. Since 2018, he has also portrayed DEA Agent Walt Breslin on Netflix's Narcos: Mexico. He received critical acclaim for his portrayal of troubled father Tom Purcell in the third season of True Detective in 2019.[22]

McNairy next appeared in Taurus, alongside Machine Gun Kelly (who also co-wrote the script) and Megan Fox, which premiered at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival.[23] He also reunited with Andrew Dominik in the 2022 film Blonde, an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's historical fiction novel that chronicles the inner life of Marilyn Monroe. In 2022, McNairy also starred in the Netflix mystery film Luckiest Girl Alive and the live-action/animated hybrid musical comedy Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile.[24] Additionally, he voiced a character in AMC's animated series Pantheon.[25]

Upcoming projects[edit]

As of July 2022, McNairy is filming the drama The Line.[26] He will star in the film Fairyland, which concluded production in June 2022. In February 2022, it was announced that McNairy would star alongside Michael Shannon, Emilia Clarke and Dane DeHaan in an upcoming Joseph McCarthy biopic.[27] In May 2022, he reportedly joined Jack Reynor and Emily Browning in psychological thriller Brightwater.[28] That same month, McNairy was announced as part of the cast for Blood for Dust, an action thriller, also including Kit Harington and Josh Lucas.[29] A month later, McNairy also joined Amy AdamsinMarielle Heller's Nightbitch.[30] Filming is set to start in September 2022. As of July 2023, McNairy is set to be in the upcoming third season of the Amazon Prime series 'Invincible'.

Producer[edit]

McNairy worked as producer for 2007's In Search of a Midnight Kiss, in which he also starred and which is referred to as his breakout film.[31][32] He has worked on a number of other projects as an actor and producer, including 2012's A Night in the Woods; and Angry White Man, Dragon Day, and The Off Hours, all released in 2011.[15]

Other work[edit]

Personal life[edit]

McNairy married actress Whitney Able in 2010. They initially started dating in Los Angeles about six months before co-starring in Monsters.[34] They have two children.[35] On November 19, 2019, Able announced that they had divorced.[36] McNairy and Sosie Bacon (Kevin Bacon's daughter) have been dating since 2021 after meeting during filming Narcos together.

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year

Title

Role

Notes

2001

Wrong Numbers

Russell

2002

Plugged In

Raver Kid #1

Short film

2003

Sexless

Ryan

Wonderland

Jack

Silenced

Friend #1

Short film

2004

D.E.B.S.

Stoner

White Men in Seminole Flats

Dale

Short film

Sleepover

DJ at Club

2005

Herbie: Fully Loaded

Augie

2006

Marcus

Charles

Art School Confidential

Army-Jacket

Bobby

Beatnik

The Shadow Effect

Harold Grey

Short film

Mr. Fix It

Dan

2007

In Search of a Midnight Kiss

Wilson

Also producer

Blind Man

Sparky Collins

2008

Wednesday Again

Peter

2009

Shipping and Receiving

Steve Porter

Short film

Cop Out

Mike Singbush

The Resurrection of Officer Rollins

Shooter

Mr. Sadman

Stevie

2010

Wreckage

Frank Jeffries

Everything Will Happen Before You Die

Matt

Monsters

Andrew Kaulder

Wes and Ella

Wes

2011

Amor Fati

Teddy

Short film

The Off Hours

Corey

A Night in the Woods

Brody Cartwright

Angry White Man

Walt

2012

Killing Them Softly

Frankie

Argo

Joe Stafford

Promised Land

Jeff Dennon

2013

Touchy Feely

Jesse

Dragon Day

Phil

12 Years a Slave

Merrill Brown

2014

Non-Stop

Tom Bowen

All Hail the King

Jackson Norriss

Short film

The Rover

Henry

Frank

Don

Gone Girl

Tommy

Black Sea

Daniels

The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest

Mark DeFriest (voice)

Documentary

2015

Lamb

Jesse

Our Brand Is Crisis

Rich

2016

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Wallace Keefe

2017

Sleepless

Rob Novak

Aftermath

Jacob "Jake" Bonanos

War Machine

Sean Cullen

2018

The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter

Greg

Destroyer

Ethan

2019

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Business Bob Gilbert

The Parts You Lose

Ronnie

2020

A Quiet Place Part II

Marina Man

Cameo

2021

C'mon C'mon

Paul

2022

Taurus

Ray

Blonde

Tommy "Tom" Ewell / Richard Sherman

Luckiest Girl Alive

Andrew Larson

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

Mr. Primm

2023

Fairyland

Steve Abbott

Blood for Dust

Cliff

The Line

2024

Speak No Evil

Ben Dalton

Post-production

Nightbitch

Post-production

2025

A Complete Unknown

Woody Guthrie

Filming

Television[edit]

Year

Title

Role

Notes

2004

Good Girls Don't...

Henry

Episode: "My Best Friend Is a Big Fat Slut"

2005

Six Feet Under

Trevor

Episode: "All Alone"

Close to Home

T.J.

Episode: "Meth Murders"

2006

More, Patience

Jake

Television film

Murder 101

Panache

Television film

Jake in Progress

Dean Thomas Stilton

Episodes: "Eyebrow Girl vs. Smirk Face", "The Hot One"

2007

How I Met Your Mother

Fast Food Worker

Episode: "Something Blue"

2007–2011

Bones

Noel Liftin

Episodes: "The Secret in the Soil", "The Man in the Outhouse", "The Daredevil in the Mold"

2008

Murder 101: New Age

Panache

Television film

The Shield

Doug Obermyer

Episode: "Snitch"

My Name Is Earl

Bed Bug

Episode: "Quit Your Snitchin'"

Eleventh Hour

Rudy Callistro

Episode: "Surge"

2009

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Vitas Long

Episode: "Lover's Lanes"

2011

The Whole Truth

Larry Thompson

Episode: "Lost in Translation"

2013–2015

Axe Cop

Scoot / Sun Thief (voice)

3 episodes

2014–2017

Halt and Catch Fire

Gordon Clark

Main role (40 episodes)

2017

Fargo

Maurice LeFay

2 episodes

Godless

Bill McNue

Miniseries (7 episodes)

2018–2021

Narcos: Mexico

D.E.A Special Agent Walt Breslin

20 episodes

2019

True Detective

Tom Purcell

Season 3 (8 episodes)

2020

Love Life

Bradley Field

2 episodes

The Comey Rule

Rod Rosenstein

Miniseries (2 episodes)

2022–2023

Pantheon

Cody Lowell, Kurt (voice)

9 episodes

2023

Invincible

King Lizard (voice)

Season 2 [37]

Producer

Year

Title

Notes

2007

In Search of a Midnight Kiss

2012

Please, Alfonso

Short film

2013

Straight A's

2014

Frank and Cindy

Awards and nominations[edit]

Association

Year

Category

Work

Result

Ref(s)

British Independent Film Awards

2010

Best Actor

Monsters

Nominated

[38]

Georgia Film Critics Association Awards

2013

Breakthrough Award

Argo, Killing Them Softly and Promised Land

Nominated

[39]

Best Ensemble

Argo

Nominated

2014

Best Ensemble

12 Years a Slave

Nominated

[40]

Hamptons International Film Festival Awards

2012

Variety's Ten Actors to Watch

Killing Them Softly

Won

[41]

Hollywood Film Awards

2012

Ensemble of the Year

Argo

Won

[42]

Independent Spirit Awards

2009

John Cassavetes Award

In Search of a Midnight Kiss

Won

[43]

International Emmy Awards

2022

Best Actor

Narcos: Mexico

Nominated

[44]

Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards

2012

Ensemble Cast Award

Argo

Won

[45]

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

2012

Best Performance by an Ensemble

Argo

Nominated

[46]

2013

Best Performance by an Ensemble

12 Years a Slave

Nominated

[47]

Screen Actors Guild Awards

2013

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Argo

Won

[48]

2014

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

12 Years a Slave

Nominated

[49]

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