Scott Eastwood: biography and selected filmography

Scott Eastwood is an American actor who starred in such popular films as “Gran Torino” (2008), “Rage” (2014), “Long Road” (2015), “Suicide Squad” (2016) and others. His work was on appreciated at two prestigious ceremonies. And this is 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 school in 2003, the guy enrolled at 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 at him. And a little later, he became the face of such famous brands as Abercrombie and Hugo Boss. Starting an acting career, he decided to use the name of his mother, appeared in the credits as Scott Reeves. But literally after 3-4 years again became Iswood.

Scott Eastwood: Personal Life

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

Still not the first plan

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

In 2008, the actor received an offer to star in David Michael O`Nill's action movie 5150 Player. 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 critically, 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 movie “Unconquered,” starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon . And then Jack Heller’s thriller Entrance to Nowhere (2010) was released, in which Scott Eastwood played Tom, one of the strangers who ended up in a mystical house in the wilderness itself. 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 from Bruce MacDonald's adventure melodrama "The Perfect Wave" (2014). Scott played a young guy named Ian McCormack, who went in search of the perfect wave to New Zealand, but eventually found true love. Despite having a small role in David Eyre’s military drama Fury (2014), he won an award at the National Board of Review. And then another one at the Teen Choice Awards ceremony for his role in the movie "Long Road" (2015), which again returned him to the front ranks.

In 2015, Scott Eastwood played Jackson, a Civil War veteran, in Lawrence Ryok's Western Devil. A year later, he played the role of Mitch, a fighter with Mexican drug cartels, in Charles Burmeister's adventure action movie “Plain of Mercury” (2016). The actor also got roles in Oliver Stone’s biographical drama “Snowden” (2016) and in the superhero action movie of David Eyre “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 of Jesse Thomas "Walk of Fame" and the action movie Antonio Negreta "Overdrive". He also played one of the characters (Eric Reisner) in the action movie F. Gary Gray “Fast and the Furious 8”. And in 2018, the sequel to the fantastic action movie “Pacific Frontier” is expected to continue, in which Scott Eastwood will play the main character of the painting by Nate Lambert.