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Scott Bakula (born October 9, 1954Scott Bakula is an American television actor most famous for his lead role in the television series . He was then known in 1996 as Mr. Smith, co-starred with Maria Bello (Mrs. Smith), in the short-lived CBS tv series (which bore little or no relation to the 2005 motion picture of the same title). Bakula later had a role in the sitcom .

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Kirkwood High School in Kirkwood, Missouri in 1973. During high school he was active in soccer, tennis and theatre. He had lead roles in Godspell, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Fiddler on the Roof. He attended college at the University of Kansas.

In 1983, Bakula (having previously appeared as a standby) made his Broadway debut playing Joe DiMaggio in . His television debut would consist of commercials for Canada Dry and for de-caffeinated Folgers coffee.

Bakula also played the lead role as Alfred and his Tony nomination helped him win the lead role opposite Dean Stockwell in the critically acclaimed television series . In this science fiction series, Bakula played the time traveler Dr. Sam Beckett who was trapped by a malfunction of his time machine that inserts his consciousness into people in the past. His performance in this program would earn him a Golden Globe award (along with three nominations) and four Emmy nominations for best actor. Low ratings for this program caused its cancellation in 1993.

He also played Jim Olmeyer, boyfriend of Sam Robards' Jim Berkley, in the Academy Award-winning , Bakula played the captain of Earth's first long-range interstellar ship, a ship of exploration converted into a warship in order to defend Earth's interests.

A 'ModernRockPowerPopPunkTrio' from Madison, Wisconsin named Sunspotmusic has written and recorded a song about the actor; sample lyrics include "...played quarterback-ula in Necessary Roughness", "I even watched 'Lord Of Illusions', even though I thought the movie kinda sucked", and the archetypal "Ziggy says there's a 98%... chance that the ending's sad". The song,