Early life

Foley was born in Kansas City, Kansas to Connie and Hugh Foley, the first of three boys. He spent part of his childhood in Australia and Japan, due to the career demands of his father, an international banker. The family settled in St. Louis, Missouri when Scott was 10 years old. His mother passed away from ovarian cancer when he was a teenager. Foley attended Ladue High School, before graduating from Clayton High School. His ancestry is English, German, Irish and Scottish.

Career

Foley's breakthrough role was playing Noel Crane on Felicity. Foley has had recurring guest appearances on Scrubs as Elliot Reid's boyfriend, Sean Kelly and on Dawson's Creek as Cliff.

Foley was nominated for a Teen Choice Award/Film as Choice Sleazebag for his role in Scream 3. Aside from acting, Foley directed one episode of Felicity (called "The Graduate"), one episode of Monk, called Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month, in season 3, along with one episode of The Unit. He also produced the sitcom A.U.S.A., on which he appeared. He had a starring role in CBS military drama The Unit, throughout its entire four season run, as Sergeant First Class Bob Brown. He guest-starred as a drug addicted baseball pitcher on House.

Scott Foley appeared in three episodes of ABC's comedy Cougar Town. He signed on to play a businessman being shown houses by the show's resident real estate agent, Jules, played by Courteney Cox, reuniting with her nine (9) years after Scream 3. Foley and Cox's characters began dating but it ended quickly as his character wanted a more serious relationship than on-the-rebound Jules.

After appearing on Shonda Rhimes' Grey's Anatomy, Foley appeared as a guest star on the second season of her hit show Scandal as captain Jake Ballard. News of Foley’s casting was revealed in January 2013. Later that year he was added as a regular to the cast.

Directing

Foley made his feature film writing and directing debut in 2013 with Let's Kill Ward's Wife. Foley's wife, Marika Domińczyk, and his brother-in-law Patrick Wilson star in the film, along with Donald Faison, Amy Acker and Nicollette Sheridan.

Personal life

On October 19, 2000, Foley married actress Jennifer Garner, whom he met when she guest-starred on Felicity. Foley and Garner separated in March 2003 and Garner filed for divorce in May 2003.

Foley became engaged to actress Marika Dominczyk in 2006, and in June 2007, the two wed in a private ceremony in Hawaii. They have three children: daughter Malina and two sons Keller and Konrad.

Through that marriage, he became the brother-in-law of actress Dagmara Dominczyk, his wife's sister who is married to the actor Patrick Wilson.

In epsiode 2 season 8 of the genealogy reality program Who Do You Think You Are?, it was revealed that Foley had an ancestor, Samuel Wardwell, who was a defendant in the Salem witch trials. Another ancestor, Simon Wardwell, was a member of then General George Washington's "Life Guard" during the Revolutionary War.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Scream 3	Roman Bridger
2000	Self Storage	Zack Griffey	Short film
2001	Stealing Time	Casey Shepard
2002	Below	Coors
2014	Let's Kill Ward's Wife	Tom	Also writer, director, and producer
2014	Mr Maple Leaf	Max Wexler	Short film, completed

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Sweet Valley High	Zack	Episode: "Blunder Alley"
1997	Crowned and Dangerous	Matt	TV film
1997	Step by Step	Jeremy Beck	Episode: "A Star Is Born"
1998	Dawson's Creek	Cliff Elliot	Recurring role (5 episodes)
1998	Someone to Love Me	Ian Hall	TV film
1998	Forever Love	David	TV film
1998-2002	Felicity	Noel Crane	Main role (84 episodes)
1999	Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane	Montana Kennedy	Episodes: "Pilot", "Everything You Wanted to Know About Zoe"
2002	Girls Club	Wayne Henry	Episode: "Pilot"
2002-2009	Scrubs	Sean Kelly	Recurring role (12 episodes)
2003	A.U.S.A.	Adam Sullivan	Main role (8 episodes)
2004	Jack & Bobby	Lars Christopher	Episode: "Election Night"
2005	House	Hank Wiggen	Episode: "Sports Medicine"
2006	Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone	Clay Harding	TV film
2006-2009	Unit, TheThe Unit	Bob Brown	Main role (69 episodes)
2009	Last Templar, TheThe Last Templar	Sean Daley	TV miniseries
2009	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Dalton Rindell	Episode: "Hammered"
2009-2010	Cougar Town	Jeff	Recurring role (4 episodes)
2010	True Blue	Peter Callahan	TV film
2010	Open Books	Dylan	TV film
2010-2012	Grey's Anatomy	Henry Burton	Recurring role (15 episodes)
2011	Doctor, TheThe Doctor	David	TV film
2011-2012	True Blood	Patrick Devins	Recurring role (10 episodes)
2013	Goodwin Games, TheThe Goodwin Games	Henry Goodwin	Main role (8 episodes)
2013-	Scandal	Jake Ballard	Main role (36 episodes)
2015	Repeat After Me	Himself	1 episode
2015-2016	Undateable	Himself	3 episodes
2016	Goldie & Bear	Prince Charming	1 episode

[ Source: Wikipedia ]