Scott Wentworth (Born 1955 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor currently living and working primarily in Canada.After starting his career in New York City, he began a long association with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in the 1985 production of The Glass Menagerie. He would later perform in a wide variety of roles at Stratford, such as Cliff in Cabaret, the title role in Macbeth, Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls, Shylock in Merchant of Venice and Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. He also directed Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 in 2001.He returned to New York in 1989 to appear in Welcome to the Club, and received a Tony nomination (Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical). As a director, he has worked at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, and the Hillberry Theatre in Detroit.Wentworth has co-written musicals with his wife Marion Adler. Their first collaboration, Gunmetal Blues, has been performed at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the Colony Theatre in Burbank, California. Their most recent collaboration is Enter the Guardsman, based on the Ferenc Molnár play The Guardsman, and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award (Best Musical) in 1997.
He was nominated for a 1994 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Taming of the Shrew" at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1989 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) for "Welcome to the Club."
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He was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Enter the Guardsman performed at the Donmar Warehouse, was nominated for Best New Musical of the 1997 season.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Orphan Black
2016
TV Series
Dr. Ian Van Lier
King Lear
2015
Gloucester
Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy
2014
TV Movie
Willard Galloway
Murdoch Mysteries
2011-2013
TV Series
Dr. Harwick
She's the Mayor
2011
TV Series
Bill Clarke
XIII: The Series
2011
TV Series
Harrison
Baxter
2010-2011
TV Series
Mr. Kingfield
Verona
2010
Short
Redwood
The Border
2009-2010
TV Series
Minister Jack Hardacre
U.S. Attorney
2009
TV Movie
Judge F. Garafola
The Trojan Horse
2008
TV Mini-Series
CIA Director
Diary of the Dead
2007
Andrew Maxwell
Elizabeth Rex
2004
TV Movie
Jack Edmund
Law & Order
2002
TV Series
Senator Elliot Judson
Free Fall
1999
Scott Wallace
Trinity
1998
TV Series
The Ice Storm
1997
Paul's Teacher
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1994-1996
TV Series
Det. Kermit Griffin
Blazing Dragons
1996
TV Series
Sir Loungelot (voice)
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
1994
TV Movie
Stefano
American Experience
1993
TV Series documentary
Jack Greenberg
Saturday Night with Connie Chung
1989
TV Series
Terry Anderson
Sing
1989
Freddy
The Taming of the Shrew
1988
TV Movie
Tranio
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The 43rd Annual Tony Awards
1989
TV Special
Himself - Nominee: Best Featured Actor in a Musical