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Wayne Pigram (born 13 October 1959), better known by his stage name Wayne Pygram, is an Australian actor, known for his role as Scorpius in the science fiction series Farscape (2000–2003) and the miniseries that followed, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004).
Mar 8, 2018 · Paley Matters. ·. 16 min read. ·. Mar 8, 2018. 318. 4. Interview with Farscape creator Rockne S. O’Bannon — and we didn’t even need to use translator microbes. The cast of Farscape (l to r): Scorpius (Wayne Pygram), Chiana (Gigi Edgley), Rygel (voice: Jonathan Hardy), D’Argo (Anthony Simcoe), Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black), John Crichton ...
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Pre-Show
Scorpius was born to Rylani Jeema Dellos, a Sebacean woman who was abducted by Scarrans and raped by Wolesh, a soldier-caste Scarran male. She died in childbirth. Scorpius was the only survivor (in 91 attempts) of a breeding program looking into the possibility of hybrid Scarran/Sebaceans and their potential advantages. Under the brutal guidance of a ruling-caste Scarran woman named Tauza, Scorpius spent his childhood forced into rigorous testing to see if such hybrids could be useful. She tr...
Season One
Scorpius discovered in his youth that his unique heritage gave him the ability to see other beings' "energy signatures." He found that each species had a particular signature. He also discovered that the energy signatures changed when one was lying. This ability enabled Scorpius to identify the human John Crichton as a non-Sebacean when they passed in a corridor on Scorpius' secret Gammak Basein the Uncharted Territories. With his special assistant Niem, Scorpius interrogated Crichton in the...
Season Two
In the meantime, however, Crichton and his companions had destroyed Scorpius' Gammak Base and evaded his command carrier, prevented him from capturing Crichton in the Breakaway Colonies, nearly killed him three times, and destroyed a Shadow Depositorythat contained a fortune in property belonging to him. Having recovered the neurochip and the all-important wormhole information it contained, Scorpius left Crichton to die and returned to his command carrier to begin work on piecing everything t...
Scorpius' personality, at first glance, is cold, dangerous, and intimidating, especially to those who are either enemies or unfamiliar to him. But Scorpius has shown his softer, or less cold side several times.He seems to genuinely care about Sikozu and Braca, and to some extent Natira, although not nearly as much as the wormhole knowledge in John'...
(Seeing John for the first time): "That man. He is an impostor. Seize him.""I long ago learned the advantages of patience.""I've heard that one-fourth Scarran/Sebacean offspring would look quite handsome."(In Scarran language) "That won't work on me."Scorpius was developed as a character in the pre-production stages of Farscape and was intended to look more insectoid. Virginia Hey recalls her first time seeing him saying, "I was floored by this...When he made his first appearance on Farscape, it was originally intended only to be a 3 or 4 part story arc, but the producers saw much more potential in the character and in actor Wayne Pygram.Scorpius' original costume called for "reptilian" contact lenses, but when producers saw Pygram in the costume without the lenses, they thought the image of his cold blue eyes made the mystique of...In concept designs Scorpius had long white hair.Harvey
Main Article: Harvey Episode: Multiple Harvey was a neural clone of Scorpius created by the neuro biotracer chipimplanted into Crichton's brain. As part of the chip, the clone was programmed to recover the wormhole information in Crichton's brain without allowing the human to know about it. Because of this, the clone helped Crichton survive on multiple occasions. He remained in Crichton's mind even after the chip's removal, having been imprinted on Crichton's psyche after so much time in his...
Scorpius the Drummer
Episode: "Won't Get Fooled Again" While under a Scarran mind probe, Crichton encountered this version of Scorpius, whose image appeared as a drummer in a band performing at a Florida club. To further confuse Crichton, who was already rather bemused from the Scarran's attempts to break his mind, John had encountered another version of Scorpius, that of the neural clone. Because of this, in his only face to face chat with the drummer, Crichton mistook him for the "real" Scorpius. The drummer wa...
Scorpius/John
Episode: "Die Me, Dichotomy", "Infinite Possibilities - Daedalus Demands", "Infinite Possibilities - Icarus Abides" After the destruction of the Shadow Depository, the neuro biotracer chip containing the neural clone of Scorpius was operating more than it ever had before. At one point, the chip's consciousness was able to take over Crichton himself. When this happened and Harvey took over Crichton's mind and body, a visual representation of Crichton morphing into a Scorpius-like version of hi...
Farscape | Character profiles. Scorpius. Wayne Pygram’s terrifying hybrid. And his alter-ego Harvey. A frightening, black-leather clad prescence, with a face like a skull, the half-breed...
Interview | Wayne Pygram. Prosthesis problems. How do the makeup and the costume affect the way you portray Scorpius? The makeup and the costume both have constraints. But the problem is the...
Wayne Pygram is an actor who plays Harvey and Scorpius on Farscape. Pygram was raised in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, where as a teen he was a drummer in a dance group. He initially studied art at Riverina College, but later changed majors to primary school education. While in college, he...
We grabbed Wayne Pygram, better known as Farscape's ruthlessly evil Scorpius, for a a quick chat during his recent UK appearance. Here's what he told us about acting, Harvey and the...
