Scott Bernard Nelson is a writer and professionally trained actor in Portland, Ore. Silver-haired and blue-eyed, he's an everyman capable of portraying a wide variety of roles from BBQ dad to business executive in commercials. In narrative film and TV work, he often portrays authority figures: Politicians, mobsters, doctors, military officers, policemen, bodyguards and (literal or figurative) monsters. Scott previously spent 22 years as a journalist, covering 9/11 in Manhattan, crossing into Iraq with U.S. Marines and contributing to The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, which spawned the movie "Spotlight." Scott works in higher education and is co-creator of the "Angel Punk" series of novels and comic books.