Scott Bakula came from a musical family. In the fourth grade he started a rock band and wrote songs for them. Later he sang with the St. Louis Symphony. He studied Law at the University of Kansas. In 1976 he was first hired professionally in the role of Sam in "Shenandoah", and went to New York. After several small roles in TV he made _Quantum Leap (1989) (TV)_ in 1987.

He won a Golden Globe in 1992 for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV series - Drama for Quantum Leap and was nominated for a Tony award in 1988. Today he lives in Los Angeles and has a farm in upstate New York.


Children: Chelsy Bakula (b. 1984), Cody (b. 1991 - adopted) with Neumann; Wil (b. 1995) and Owen (b. 1999), with Field. The white streak in his hair appeared when he was four years old. He had been helping a neighbor paint, and his mother thought he had gotten paint in his hair. Last name means "flower". Has speculated (half jokingly) that Jonathan Archer's middle name is Beckett. This is in reference to Dr. Sam Beckett, the character Bakula portrayed on "Quantum Leap" (1989). The song "Somewhere in the Night," which appeared in an episode of "Quantum Leap" (1989), was sung by Bakula and can be found in a CD single format. Ran the Los Angeles Marathon on March 6, 2005 in 4 hrs 10 mins 41 secs. Has been directed by James Whitmore Jr. in episodes of three different series: "Quantum Leap" (1989), "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (1996), and "Enterprise" (2001). His father-in-law (Chelsea Field's father) once sold a horse to William Shatner. The surname Bakula is very common in Croatia and very rare in the Czech Republic. During the premiere of the first season of Star Trek: Enterprise in Croatia, some Croatian newspapers, like Slobodna Dalmacija, conducted a few interviews with Croatians named Bakula, especially with people from Dalmatia and Herzegovina, in an effort to determine Scott Bakula's origin. It is also possible, as a lot of Croats have lived in the Czech Republic for centuries, that Scott's ancestors are among them.