Raised in East Bridgewater, Mass., where he was the 3rd of 4 children, of a father who is a civil engineer, and his mother an insurance saleswoman. His parents still live in the "nice houce in the woods, pond nearby, " where Tom spent his childhood canoeing, camping and acting kidlike. He acted in high school plays, but Tom planned to quit acting, and take a more serios look at the world. So, he enrolled in communications at Syracuse University in 1988. During his sophomore year he says "I went down to the theater and saw everthing going on-people jumping around being idots-and I thought, 'This is my home. This is where I should be.'" So, Tom switched his major to drama, and upon graduating, he moved to New York City. There, he waited tables, and eventually founded a theatre company with 3 college buddies that they named "aTheaterco".


During auditions for That Thing You Do! (1996), Tom Hanks was opposed to hiring Tom (Everett Scott), because of the the fact that Scott could've passed for Hanks 15 years ago. It wasn't until Hanks' wife Rita Wilson saw the audition tape, and decided he was cute, so, Hanks decided to risk hiring Scott. In the 2003 off-Broadway play "Touch," Scott's character opened the show with a 30-minute monologue. Came in 3rd in a "World Poker Tour" (2003) event, so far being the only "celebrity" to make it to a WPT final table