--- name: "Seann William Scott" canonical: "https://film.one/person/seann-william-scott" roles: ["Actor"] born: "3 October 1976" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 49 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-20T09:50:05.130568+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Seann William Scott Actor. Born 3 October 1976 in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 3 October 1976, Cottage Grove, Minnesota, USA - **Active:** 2000–present - **Also known as:** Seann Scott, Seann W. Scott, Sean W. Scott - **Average Fi1m score:** 49, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 62 (2), 2010s 24 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 49 to 45 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 1 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Comedy 3, Adventure 1 - **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $239m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seann_William_Scott, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193212, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005405/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57599 ## Coming up - *Ice Age: Boiling Point* (2027-02-03), as Crash (voice) ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Road Trip*](https://film.one/film/road-trip.md) (64) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Seann William Scott > Seann William Scott's stock in trade is the grin that arrives before the idea: a boy who says yes to everything and regrets none of it. It made him, as Stifler in *American Pie*, and it has followed him about ever since, to his profit and his cost. Watch what Seann William Scott does before he speaks. The head goes back, the teeth come out, and whatever the other person has just suggested, the answer is already yes. In *Road Trip* (2000) E.L. is that boy exactly, the one in the car with no reason to go and no reason not to, and Scott plays him a year on from *American Pie* with the same grin and a nastier appetite. He is not the film's heart; that is DJ Qualls's Kyle. He is its accelerator. The grin was minted as Steve Stifler in *American Pie* (1999), and for most of the decade that followed the parts were versions of him: crude, cheerful, not clever, in comedies made to be watched with a room full of people. He has said, "I never really thought of Stifler as being dumb," and on the evidence he is right. The character is not stupid; he simply does not care what happens next, and Scott plays appetite, not idiocy. The trouble is that appetite, played well, gets asked for again. Alongside the comedies he spent a decade as the voice of Crash, the possum in the *Ice Age* films (2006–2016). The turn, such as it was, came with *Goon* (2011), in which he plays Doug Glatt, a gentle man whose one talent is hitting people on ice. Jay Baruchel wrote it and acts in it, and the two of them came back for the 2017 sequel. Between them they gave Scott something the comedies never had: a character whose sweetness is the joke rather than a pause between jokes. It suits him. We would only add that the Stifler films needed him more than anyone likes to admit; take the boy who says yes out of *Road Trip* and you have four sensible people in a car. We laughed at E.L. and did not like him for a second, and we think that is the point: the grin is there to make us complicit, and it works. Since then there has been television, *Lethal Weapon* (2018–2019) and *Welcome to Flatch* (2022–2023), and now *Dolly* (2026), a low-budget horror in which he plays a man called Chase. He has said he wanted darker parts. Whether the grin survives in the dark is the interesting question. It has never once been switched off on screen, and we would pay to see what his face does without it. ## Biography Seann William Scott is an American actor. Born on 3 October 1976 in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, he attended the University of Wisconsin and Glendale Community College before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Scott's breakthrough came with the role of Steve Stifler in *American Pie* (1999) and its sequels *American Pie 2* (2001), *American Wedding* (2003) and *American Reunion* (2012). He appeared as E.L. in the comedy *Road Trip* (2000) and voiced Crash in the *Ice Age* animated films *The Meltdown* (2006), *Dawn of the Dinosaurs* (2009), *Continental Drift* (2012) and *Collision Course* (2016). Other credits include *Final Destination* (2000), *Dude, Where's My Car?* (2000), *Evolution* (2001) and *The Rundown* (2003). More recent work includes the horror film *Dolly* (2026), in which he plays Chase, as well as television appearances in series such as *Lethal Weapon* and *Shifting Gears*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Movie 43* (2013), Fi1m 24, as Pete (segment "Happy Birthday") — [page](https://film.one/film/movie-43.md) - *Old School* (2003), Fi1m 60, as Peppers — [page](https://film.one/film/old-school.md) - *Road Trip* (2000), Fi1m 64, as E.L. — [page](https://film.one/film/road-trip.md) ## Complete filmography (54) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Ice Age: Boiling Point* (2027), as Crash (voice) - *Dolly* (2026), as Chase — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/dolly.md) - *Bad Man* (2025), as Bobby Gaines - *Shifting Gears* (2025), series, as Gabriel - *Jackpot!* (2024), as Rugged Man - *The Wrath of Becky* (2023), as Darryl Jr. · Executive Producer - *Welcome to Flatch* (2022), series, as Joseph 'Father Joe' Binghoffer - *Bloodline* (2019), as Evan - *The Righteous Gemstones* (2019), series, as Corey Milsap - *Already Gone* (2019), as Martin - *Super Troopers 2* (2018), as Trooper Callaghan - *Goon: Last of the Enforcers* (2017), as Doug Glatt · Executive Producer - *Lethal Weapon* (2016), series, as Wesley Cole - *Ice Age: Collision Course* (2016), as Crash (voice) - *Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade* (2016), as Crash (voice) - *Just Before I Go* (2015), as Ted Morgan - *Timms Valley* (2013), as US Marshal Kev - *Movie 43* (2013), as Pete (segment "Happy Birthday") — Fi1m 24, [page](https://film.one/film/movie-43.md) - *Ice Age: Continental Drift* (2012), as Crash (voice) - *American Reunion* (2012), as Steve Stifler · Executive Producer - *Goon* (2012), as Doug Glatt - *Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas* (2011), as Crash (voice) - *Cop Out* (2010), as Dave - *Planet 51* (2009), as Skiff (voice) - *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs* (2009), as Crash (voice) - *Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach* (2009), as Gary - *Role Models* (2008), as Anson Wheeler - *The Promotion* (2008), as Doug Stauber - *Southland Tales* (2007), as Roland Taverner / Ronald Taverner - *Mr. Woodcock* (2007), as John Farley - *American Loser* (2007), as Jeff - *Ice Age: The Meltdown* (2006), as Crash (voice) - *The Dukes of Hazzard* (2005), as Bo Duke - *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia* (2005), series, as Country Mac - *American Pie: Revealed* (2004), Thanks - *The Rundown* (2003), as Travis - *American Wedding* (2003), as Steve Stifler - *MTV Reloaded* (2003), as Seann William Scott - *Bulletproof Monk* (2003), as Kar - *Old School* (2003), as Peppers — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/old-school.md) - *Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell* (2002), as Boss (archive footage) - *Stark Raving Mad* (2002), as Ben McGewan - *Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back* (2001), as Brent - *American Pie 2* (2001), as Steve Stifler - *Evolution* (2001), as Wayne Grey - *Dude, Where's My Car?* (2000), as Chester - *Road Trip* (2000), as E.L. — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/road-trip.md) - *Final Destination* (2000), as Billy Hitchcock - *American Pie* (1999), as Steve Stifler - *Chad's World* (1998), as Jim - *Born Into Exile* (1997), as Derek - *Unhappily Ever After* (1995), series, as Moondoggie - *The Last Bachelor*, as Tommy Kriffman - *The Path*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Seann William Scott](https://film.one/media/person/465180/gallery-0d37b6759c85.jpg) Seann William Scott — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Seann_William_Scott_2012.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Seann William Scott](https://film.one/media/person/465180/gallery-004d69ac0617.jpg) Seann William Scott — Image via TMDB - ![Seann William Scott](https://film.one/media/person/465180/gallery-7c71241dda7f.jpg) Seann William Scott — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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