Scott Eastwood: biography and selected filmography

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Scott Eastwood is an American actor who starred in such popular films as "Gran Torino" (2008), "Fury" (2014), "The Long Road" (2015), "Suicide Squad" (2016) and others His work has been honored at two prestigious ceremonies. And that's not the only thing that can be said about this actor.

Biography

Scott was born in 1986 in Monterey, California. And at that time he became the fourth child of the famous director and actor Clint Eastwood. After graduating from high school in 2003, the guy entered Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, after which he became a communications specialist.

Probably, family ties with a famous dad would have been enough, but the guy also had good external data. Therefore, it is not surprising that advertising agencies began to look closely at him. And a little later, he became the face of such famous brands as Abercrombie and Hugo Boss. Starting his acting career, he decided to use his mother's last name, appearing in the credits as Scott Reeves. But literally after 3-4 years he again became Iswood.

Scott Eastwood: personal life

The actor, for obvious reasons, never had problems with the opposite sex. So his personal life has long been under the guns of the cameras of nosy paparazzi. Although they found out a little. It is known that in 2014 he had a short-term relationship with model Brittany Russo. And in 2015, the guy was seen with model Charlotte McKinney, with whom they walked along the pier in Malibu.

Not the first plan yet

How did Scott Eastwood start his film career? The actor's filmography begins with Clint Eastwood's military drama Flags of Our Fathers (2006), which tells about the events taking place during the Battle of Iwo Jima. A year later, he starred in Tommy O'Haver's television crime drama American Crime (2007). And then got a small role in Sunu Goner's sports drama Pride.

In 2008, the actor received an offer to star in the action movie "Player 5150" by David Michael O`Neill. And in the same year he became part of the cast of Clint Eastwood's drama Gran Torino. The role he got, of course, is small. But the project itself turned out to be loud both financially and in terms of criticism, which turned out to be positive. Now the picture takes 73rd place in the "Top-250 best films" according to the site "Kinopoisk".

In 2009, he starred in another Clint Eastwood film, Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. And then there was Jack Heller's thriller Entering Nowhere (2010), in which Scott Eastwood played Tom, one of the strangers who found themselves inmystical house in the middle of nowhere. Also, his secondary characters can be seen in films such as "Carmel" (2012) and "Twisted Ball" (2012).

Finally

The time of the main roles for the actor came with Bruce MacDonald's adventure melodrama "Perfect Wave" (2014). Scott played a young guy named Ian McCormack, who went to New Zealand in search of the perfect wave, but eventually found true love. Despite the fact that in David Eyre's war drama Fury (2014), Scott got a small role, he received an award at the National Board of Review ceremony. And then another at the Teen Choice Awards for his role in The Long Road (2015), which put him back in the front row.

In 2015, Scott Eastwood played Jackson, a Civil War veteran, in Lawrence Roek's western The Devil. A year later, he played the role of Mitch, a fighter against Mexican drug cartels, in Charles Burmeister's action adventure Mercury Plain (2016). The actor also got roles in Oliver Stone's biographical drama Snowden (2016) and David Eyre's superhero action movie Suicide Squad (2016).

In 2017, three more films were released with the participation of Scott Eastwood, and in two of them he happened to play the main role. We are talking about the romantic comedy "Walk of Fame" by Jesse Thomas and the action movie "Overdrive" by Antonio Negreta. He also played one of the characters (Eric Reisner) in F. Gary Gray's action movie Fast & Furious 8. And in 2018, the continuation of the fantastic action movie "Pacific Rim" is expected, in which ScottEastwood will play the main character of the picture Nate Lambert.