Scott Stewart Bakula (innate in October 9, 1954) is an Our contries television actor best known for his lead role in the television series Quantum Leap. He wwhen so known within 1996 as Mr. Smith, co-starred by using Maria Bello (Mrs. Smith), in the short-fugacious CBS tv series Mr. & Mrs. Smith (bearing little or no relation to the 2005 movie of the same title) . Bakulthe late got a role in the sitcom Murphy Brown and most recently starred when Captain Jonathan Archer in the science fiction series Star Trek: Enterprise.

He was innate within St. Louis, Missouri, & calibrated from either Kirkwood High School within Kirkwood, Missouri (legendary actress Geraldine Page's birthplace) in 1973. When you took senior high he move inside association football, lawn tennis & theatre. He experienced lead roles within Godspell, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Fiddler on the Roof. He attended college at a University of Kansas.

Around 1983, Bakula (with antecedently appeared as a standby) processed his Broadway debut swimming Joe DiMaggio in Marilyn, An American Fable. His television debut would consist of commercials for Canada Dry and for de-caffeinated Folgers coffee.

Bakula besides played a lead role when Alfred/Sam in the Broadway musical theater Romance, Romance, & within 1988 he was nominated for the Tony Award.

His performance inside Romance, Romance & his Tony nomination helped him win a lead role paired Dean Stockwell in the critically acclaimed television series Quantum Leap. In that science fiction series, Bakula played a period traveller Dr. Sam Beckett world health organization was trapped by the malfunction of his period machine that inserts his consciousness into humans it used to be that. His performance in that program would earn him the Golden Earth award (along using leash nominations) & iv Emmy nominations for better actor. Moo ratings for this program stimulated its cancellation around 1993.

He as well played Jim Olmeyer, beau of Sam Robards's Jim Berkley, in the Academy Award-winning American Beauty in 1999.

When Captainside Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise, Bakula was the captain of Globe's number one long-range interstellar ship, the ship of exploration converted into the war vessel sequentially to defend Globe's interests.

More credits include:

Netforce (1999) Lord of Illusions (1995) Eisenhower and Lutz (1988) Matlock (2 episodes 1987) Designing Women (1986–1988) My Sister Sam (1 episode 1986) Gung Ho (1986) I-Man (1986)