Trivia

Came in third in a World Poker Tour (2003) event, so far being the only "celebrity" to make it to a WPT final table.

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 that Hanks decided to pick Scott.

Steve Zahn, who was in That Thing You Do! (1996) with Tom, was the best man at Tom's wedding. Steve and Tom later played the same character, Frank Heffley, in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid films, with Steve playing the role in the first three films and Tom taking over in the fourth.

Graduated from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York with a BA in Drama in 1992.

In the 2003 off-Broadway play "Touch," Scott's character opened the show with a 30-minute monologue.

In 2005, he appeared at the L.A. Ahmanson Theatre stage production of "Dead End," a rare revival of the 1932 Depression-era play that takes place along New York's East River. In the play, the entire orchestra pit was filled with 11,000 gallons of water to recreate the site. The play cost a reported $3 million.

He is the son of Cynthia (Pierce) and William Joseph Scott. Tom is of English and smaller amounts of Scottish, German, and Irish ancestry. His lineage includes both recent immigrants and family lines that have lived in the United States since the 1600s.

Sometimes mistaken for Brendan Hines, who was Eli Loker in Lie to Me (2009).

Father of a daughter, named Arly, and a son, named Finn.