Scott Eastwood
Quick Facts
Biography
Scott Eastwood (born Scott Clinton Reeves; March 21, 1986) is an American actor, model, and professional skydiver. He has appeared in the films Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Gran Torino (2008), Invictus (2009), The Forger (2012), Trouble with the Curve (2012), Texas Chainsaw (2013), Fury (2014), The Perfect Wave (2014), The Longest Ride (2015), and Suicide Squad (2016). He has also been the model for the fragrance Cool Water by Davidoff. He is the youngest son of Academy Award-winning actor-director Clint Eastwood and second youngest of Jacelyn Reeves.
Early life
Eastwood was born in Monterey County, California and raised in Hawaii.
He is the son of actor-director Clint Eastwood and flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves. Of father Clint Eastwood's seven children, Scott is the fourth oldest. He has a younger sister, Kathryn, who was born two years after him, in 1988, and five paternal half-siblings, including Kimber Tunis, Kyle Eastwood, Alison Eastwood, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, and Morgan Eastwood. He graduated from high school in 2003.
He attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, from which he graduated in 2008 with a degree in communications. As of at least 2015, he lives in San Diego.
In August 2016, Scott opened up to the media about a previous car accident, on September 24, 2014, that killed his girlfriend at the time, Jewel Brangman.
Scott is widely known for his almost identical appearance to earlier day, Clint Eastwood. This was highlighted by the media when Scott dressed up as Clint Eastwood's character from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, for a Halloween 2016 charity event.
Career
Eastwood began his career by using his mother's last name to avoid nepotism, although there is another actor named Scott Reeves. "I've auditioned for pretty much every one of my father's movies", he said in 2015, noting he was rejected for the Clint Eastwood-directed American Sniper. He briefly appeared in his father's 2008 film Gran Torino, and played Joel Stransky in Invictus.
In April 2010, Eastwood played the lead role in Enter Nowhere, he had a supporting role in David Ayer's 2014 film Fury, appeared in the 2015 music video for Taylor Swift's "Wildest Dreams", and starred alongside Britt Robertson in the 2015 film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel The Longest Ride.
In 2016, Eastwood played Lieutenant GQ Edwards, in charge of a group of villains, in the film Suicide Squad, an adaptation of the DC Comics series. Also that year, he starred alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley in the biographical drama film Snowden, directed by Oliver Stone, and released in September.
In 2017, he played a special agent in the action film The Fate of the Furious, and will star in Overdrive, a thriller film which was shot in Paris and Marseilles. He will also star in the science fiction follow-up Pacific Rim: Uprising.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2006 | Flags of Our Fathers | Roberto Lundsford | |
2007 | An American Crime | Eric Destroy | |
Pride | Jake Ballers | ||
2008 | Player 5150 | Brian Vicks | |
Gran Torino | Trey Harmful | ||
2009 | Shannon's Rainbow | Joey Milton | |
Invictus | Joel Stransky | ||
2011 | Enter Nowhere | Tom Deep | |
Lion of Judah, TheThe Lion of Judah | Jack Leones | ||
2012 | The Forger | Ryan Felter | |
Trouble with the Curve | Billy Clark | ||
2013 | Texas Chainsaw 3D | Deputy Hartman | |
2014 | Fury | Sergeant Miles | |
The Perfect Wave | Ian McCormack | ||
Dawn Patrol | John Piper | ||
2015 | The Longest Ride | Luke Collins | |
Diablo | Jackson | ||
Mercury Plains | Mitch Davis | ||
2016 | Snowden | Trevor James | |
Suicide Squad | Lieutenant GQ Edwards | ||
2017 | Walk of Fame | Drew | |
The Fate of the Furious | Agent Eric Reisner / "Little Nobody" | ||
Overdrive | Andrew | ||
2018 | Pacific Rim: Uprising | Nate Lambert | Post-production |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2013 | Chicago Fire | Officer Jim Barnes | 2 episodes |
2014 | Chicago PD | Officer Jim Barnes | Episode: "Stepping Stone" (uncredited) |
Year | Title | Role | Artist |
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2015 | "Wildest Dreams" | Love interest | Taylor Swift |
Awards and nominations
Year | Ceremony | Award(s) | Nominated work | Result |
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2014 | National Board of Review Awards | Best Cast | Fury | Won |
2015 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice Movie Actor: Drama | The Longest Ride | Won |
Choice Movie: Breakout Star | Nominated | |||
2016 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice Movie Actor: AnTEENcipated | Suicide Squad | Nominated |