Scott Coffey Bio

Scott Coffey knows his craft from both sides of the camera from his work as an actor, producer, writer, and director.

He was raised in Kailua Hawaii, attended school in Rome, Italy, and lives in Portland, Oregon.

As an actor, he has appeared in numerous films including several John Hughes movies, Nicholas Kazan’s DREAM LOVER, David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and SHAG, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor. Most recently he can be seen as Jack Rabbit in David Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE and in Lynch’s online series RABBITS.

In 2004 Filmmaker Magazine named Scott one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film for his first short film ELLIE PARKER, which premiered at that year’s Sundance Film Festival. Naomi Watts starred as the title character. Scott and Naomi continued to film a series of shorts based on the same character and in 2005, the feature film version of ELLIE PARKER, starring Naomi Watts and Chevy Chase was an Official Selection of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.  The film also won the New American Cinema Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, and Scott received the Breakthrough Writer/Director Award from Movieline’s Hollywood Life Magazine. The movie received rave reviews from The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Sight and Sound and Roger Ebert. Ebert and Roeper gave Ellie Parker “Two Thumbs Up.”  The film was distributed in the US by Strand Releasing is currently out on DVD.

Recently Scott adapted the best-selling Lolly Winston novel HAPPINESS SOLD SEPARATELY for Fox Searchlight. Scott will direct with Julia Roberts attached to star.  His screen adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s ALL GOD’S CHILDREN CAN DANCE (aka K-TOWN SUPERFROG) screened as the opening night film of CineVegas and at the Deauville International Film Festival.

Scott’s working on his next film Adult World that will star Emma Roberts.  Shooting will begin in early 2012.