Scott Caan
Scott Andrew Caan (born August 23, 1976 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American actor.
Life
Scott Caan is the son of actor James Caan and Sheila Ryan, a former model and actress. His paternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Germany. His parents divorced a year after he was born. He has four half-siblings from another marriage and previous relationships with his father.
In July 2014, Caan and his significant other became parents to a daughter.
Caan worked as a roadie for bands like Cypress Hill and House of Pain and was a member of the hip-hop band The Whooliganz along with Mudfoot (real name: Alan Maman - now known as the producer The Alchemist ).
Career
Caan began acting in the late 1990s, mostly starring in independent and low budget films . He made his first appearance in a better-known film in 1998 in Der Staatsfeind Nr. 1 , in which he played an NSA agent. He then appeared in a number of films, including Ready to Rumble and American Outlaws , in which he starred with Colin Farrell .
In 2003 Caan made his directorial debut with the comedy film Dallas 362 . He also wrote the script and took on the lead role. The film won the Critics' Prize at the CineVegas International Film Festival that same year . Another directorial work Caan delivered in 2006 with the comedy The Dog Problem , in which he also took part again. In 2009 he wrote the script for the love drama Mercy and took on the male lead. James Caan appeared in a supporting role as his father in the film.
In addition to low-budget films, Caan also starred in large-scale productions such as Der Staatsfeind Nr. 1 , Nur 60 seconds and in the Ocean's Eleven trilogy. In 2005 he starred in the action film Into the Blue at the side of Paul Walker , with whom he had already appeared in Varsity Blues . After this success Caan was hired for film projects such as Friends with Money , Lonely Hearts Killers and Brooklyn Rules as a supporting actor. While the box office results for these films were below expectations, they earned Caan some positive reviews.
In the final seasons of the series Entourage , Caan played a regular supporting role as Eric's business partner Scott Lavin .
In Hawaii Five-0 , the remake of Hawaii Five-Zero , Caan stars as Danny "Danno" Williams . His performance earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2011 . Two years later he was nominated for the 2013 Teen Choice Awards in the TV Actor: Action category. In the episode "Fireworks" of the Hawaii Five-0 series, his father James Caan has a guest appearance.
In January 2014, the Lord Steppington titled collaboration album by rappers The Alchemist and Evidence was released . Caan wrote and rapped a verse for the song Byron G.
Caan also works as a photographer. In 2009 his photo book Scott Caan Photographs, Vol. 1 was published . In October 2014, a second volume of Caan's photographs was published under the title Vanity .
In 2012 Scott Caan published the self-written plays Two Wrongs and No Way Around But Through . In 2015 he published The Performance of Heartbreak , the book contains several of his pieces.
Filmography (selection)
- 1995: Aaron Gilles Pie Will Make You A Star
- 1995: A Boy Called Hate
- 1996: Last Resort
- 1997: Bongwater
- 1997: Nowhere
- 1998: Wild Horses
- 1998: The public enemy no. 1 (Enemy of the State)
- 1999: Varsity Blues
- 1999: Saturn
- 1999: Black and White
- 2000: Risk - The Fastest Path to Wealth (Boiler Room)
- 2000: Ready to Rumble
- 2000: Gone in 60 Seconds (Gone in Sixty Seconds)
- 2001: American Outlaws
- 2001: Ocean's Eleven
- 2001: Novocaine - Tooth for a tooth (Novocaine)
- 2002: Sonny
- 2003: Dallas 362
- 2004: Ocean's 12 (Ocean's Twelve)
- 2004: U-Boat (In Enemy Hands)
- 2005: Into the Blue
- 2006: Friends with Money (Friends with Money)
- 2006: Lonely Hearts Killers (Lonely Hearts)
- 2006: The Dog Problem
- 2007: Brooklyn Rules
- 2007: Ocean's 13 (Ocean's Thirteen)
- 2008: Man, Dave! (Meet Dave)
- 2009: Deep in the Valley (Deep in the Valley)
- 2009: Mercy
- 2009–2011: Entourage (TV series, 19 episodes)
- 2010: A Beginner's Guide to Endings
- 2010–2020: Hawaii Five-0 (TV series, 208 episodes)
- 2012: Navy CIS: LA ( NCIS: Los Angeles , TV series, episode 3x21)
- 2013: 3 Geezers!
- 2015: Rock the Kasbah
- 2016: All At Once
photography
- Scott Caan / Howard Nourmand (editors): Scott Caan Photographs, Vol. 1 , Rat Press 2009. ISBN 0-9818056-0-4 .
- Scott Caan / Howard Nourmand (editors): Vanity , Reel Art Press Limited, 2014. ISBN 978-1-909526-16-7
Web links
- Scott Caan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.cigaraficionado.com: The Ultimate Caan by Betsy Model. Released February 1, 2004
- ↑ The baby is here , article on Bunte.de from July 29, 2014, accessed on July 29, 2014.
- ↑ Nominations for the Teen Choice Awards on buddytv.com ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 12, 2013.
- ^ Luke Fox: Step Brothers - Lord Steppington • Hip-Hop Reviews . In: exclaim.ca . January 17, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
- ↑ Scott Caan - Photographs Vol 1. Review on threeguysonebook.com, accessed on June 12, 2014 (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Caan, Scott |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Caan, Scott Andrew |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd August 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |