Scott MacArthur

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| name = Scott MacArthur

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|08|06}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tvinsider.com/people/scott-macarthur/|title=Scott MacArthur|website=TV Insider|access-date=2025-02-26}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

| occupation = Actor, writer

| yearsactive = 2006–present

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| relatives = Hayes MacArthur (brother)
Ali Larter (sister-in-law)
William F. Farley (step-father)

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Scott MacArthur (born August 6, 1979) is an American actor and writer. He is best known for playing Jimmy Shepherd, a main character on the Fox comedy series The Mick.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chicagoinc/ct-the-mick-scott-macarthur-20161230-story.html |title=How Scott MacArthur went from Chicago improv to Fox's 'The Mick' |last=Swartz |first=Tracy |publisher=’’Chicago Tribune’’|date=December 30, 2016|accessdate=February 23, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/the-mick/270279/the-mick-creators-on-chip-s-new-father-and-trying-to-enrage-their-audience|title= The Mick Creators On Chip's New Father and Trying To Enrage Their Audience}}

Career

MacArthur starred in the Fox series The Mick from 2017 to 2018. MacArthur was initially hired as a writer for the series.{{cite web|url=https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/the-mick/269482/the-mick-creators-explain-that-radical-cast-departure|title=The Mick Creators Explain That Radical Cast Departure|last=Kurland|first=Daniel|date=December 6, 2017|publisher=denofgeek.com|accessdate=January 5, 2018}} The Jimmy character was played by Nat Faxon in the original pilot for The Mick, with the knowledge that Faxon would not be able to continue in the role if the pilot got picked up to series. After offering the role to MacArthur, Fox re-shot the pilot prior to the series debut.

MacArthur has also appeared in films, such as The Diabolical (2015) and Answers to Nothing (2011), as well as numerous guest roles on television.{{cite web|url= https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2509902/?ref_=tt_cl_t6 |title=Scott MacArthur IMDB bio |website=IMDb |accessdate=February 26, 2018}} He appeared in the 2019 Breaking Bad epilogue film, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, as welder/criminal Neil Kandy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/el-camino-a-breaking-bad-movie-easter-eggs-explained-1246859 |title=How 'El Camino' Honors and Moves Beyond 'Breaking Bad' |last=Wigler |first=Josh |website=HollywoodReporter.com|date=October 11, 2019|accessdate=October 15, 2019}} MacArthur appeared in a recurring role in The Righteous Gemstones as Scotty "the Devil", a moronic stuntman turned extortionist.{{cite web | url=https://www.monstersandcritics.com/tv/scotty-on-the-righteous-gemstones-who-plays-the-man-who-calls-himself-the-devil/ | title=Scotty on the Righteous Gemstones: Who plays the man who calls himself the Devil? | date=26 August 2019 }}

In September 2024, he was cast in a recurring role on the upcoming superhero series Spider-Noir.{{Cite magazine |last=Vlessing |first=Etan |date=September 18, 2024 |title=Lukas Haas Joins Nicolas Cage in Spider-Man Noir Series for Amazon |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nicolas-cage-spider-man-noir-series-casts-lukas-haas-1236005969/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240918203317/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nicolas-cage-spider-man-noir-series-casts-lukas-haas-1236005969/ |archive-date=September 18, 2024 |access-date=November 30, 2024 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter}}

In February 2025, MacArthur was cast in Netflix series Running Point as Ness Gordon, the older brother of Kate Hudson's character, Isla Gordon.