James Scott (actor) - Personal Life

Personal Life

"I didn't always want to be an actor but I always knew I would be," Scott remarks, "just a feeling that has lived within me from my earliest childhood memories."

Scott was born in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England; home of Newcastle Brown Ale and Newcastle United Football Club soccer. The eldest of four children, he has two brothers and a sister.

Initially schooled in Newcastle, Scott moved to an all-boys boarding school in Lancaster.

After school, Scott moved to Edinburgh, Scotland on a voyage of self discovery. His mother is Scottish and he spent a lot of time in Scotland as a boy. His first summer there he managed to get a job working at the famous "Gilded Balloon Theatre", one of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's best-known venues, established by Karen Koren in 1986 in Edinburgh's Cowgate and worked with such great actors/comedians as Stephen Fry, Ben Elton, and Eddie Izzard. "They set me in motion, giving me the drive I needed to move forward. Soon it became apparent that I would need to move to London in order to truly focus on this as a career," Scott remembers.

After only a few weeks in London, Scott was spotted by the Storm Model Management agency in London, home to Kate Moss, Elle Macpherson, and other prominent models. Modeling allowed him to earn enough money to put himself through school. After looking through many of London's excellent and prestigious acting academies he applied for, and was accepted to, The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

While in London, he began modeling which brought him to the United States, spending an average on one week a month there. During a modeling trip to Los Angeles, he audited an acting class at the "Ivana Chubbuck Studio" in Hollywood. The class inspired him to save money and make the move to Los Angeles and study acting for two years before being cast on "All My Children", his first television job in the U.S.