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Scott Kraft is an American actor, writer, and producer. Early life and career. Kraft obtained his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from Antioch University. Kraft co-wrote the 1992 action-drama The Silencer with Amy Goldstein.
- Actor, producer, writer
- 1983–present
- Nadine van der Velde (1992–present)
Scott Kraft. Producer: PAW Patrol. Scott Kraft is known for PAW Patrol (2013), Fresh Beat Band of Spies (2015) and Rolie Polie Olie (1998). He has been married to Nadine Van der Velde since 1992.
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Scott Kraft. Producer: PAW Patrol. Scott Kraft is known for PAW Patrol (2013), Fresh Beat Band of Spies (2015) and Rolie Polie Olie (1998). He has been married to Nadine Van der Velde since 1992.
Actor Scott Kraft appeared on the big screen many times over the course of his Hollywood career. Early on, Kraft mostly landed roles in various films, including "Enemy Mine" (1985) with Dennis ...
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- Emmys and Making It
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We’d love to hear your recount of getting from Penn to now, including key decision points and what inspired you.
I'd like to say there were key decision points but it was a little less conscious than that. I always thought I wanted to be a writer even in high school, but I didn't really have any particular concept of what that looks like. I went to a high school outside of Philadelphia and we had a program where you could miss the last semester of your senior year if you got an approved internship. So I was actually working at a news radio station for that semester, and at that point I thought I probabl...
Wow! Did you have a gig at New York or something like that?
Not really, I actually just did a lot of odd jobs. I kind of became an accidental actor. I don't really remember exactly how it worked but I somehow ended up acting in a shoe commercial. Again I didn't even really realize people act, like it wasn't a realistic thing. I made a few thousand dollars in residuals over the summer which for college kids was amazing. So I ended up getting a bit of an acting career that was my day job weirdly enough—and that brought me to LA because that's where the...
That really takes us back to memories watching Rolie Polie Olie as a kid.
It's funny because one of our one of our favorite moments was when our first kid was at preschool and they were asking everybody what their parents do. And our daughter said, my parents tell Olie what to say. I thought that's a pretty okay job description. It was pretty fun writing for our kids and their friends. And I think if we didn't have kids we would not have been very good at it. Having an audience right at home and spending time with them, you really knew what was going to keep them i...
And Rolie Polie Olie was your first Emmy right? Did you feel that was when you really "made it" in the industry?
I think that concept is really an unhelpful concept in general. Obviously there are super successful people that kind of have it set. But it's a very entrepreneurial industry and you really have to go out prove yourself again the next time and the next time and the next time. Yes, you get to levels where you're probably going to be able to feed yourself, and that's really important especially once you have kids. But I think it's a really unhelpful concept that one job or show or something mea...
It seems you took a leap of faith in knowing that you loved writing and wanted to pursue it – how did you have the confidence to do that?
You know, I really have no idea. If I did anything that was sort of smart—even though I didn't know I was doing it—was that I was just really open to opportunity. If somebody said, hey you want to come down here and PA on this job, standing and blocking traffic on 3rd Street?I would just go yeah, and I would show up. And it was partly out of necessity, but it was also because I didn't have any clear picture of what I wanted to do. I know a lot of the Penn people out here who have done really...
Was there any opportunity that in the moment didn't seem that significant for you but ended up being sort of a blessing in disguise?
I think that attending the playwrights' workshop and conference was that for me. Just in that I met a lot of the people I ended up working with in theatre companies at that moment. I met my wife which was huge. It was sort of that moment when I was 27-28 years old and I really threw down and decided if I'm going to be a writer I need to stop the odd-jobbing and start putting pages out. It took me until then to learn that you actually have to write things to be a writer. I realized you have to...
What's your advice for Penn students interested in going down this path of writing?
There are way more resources now and there's way more of a community than when I was at Penn. I actually support the Kelly Writers House because they are so fantastic for that. You should just go hang out at that place all the time. But the opportunity to really meet and hang out with writers is important. And you have to learn the business if you want to make money at it. It's an entrepreneurial business that requires time and effort and energy and networking and involves endless rejection a...
Scott Kraft is a television writer and executive producer who started as an actor and graduated from Penn in 1983. He shares his journey from acting to writing, his experience with Rolie Polie Olie, and his advice for aspiring writers. Learn how he became a Emmy winner and a successful producer at Nickelodeon.
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In this conversation, Paw Patrol creator Scott Kraft delves into the various creative pathways of Hollywood, the underlying importance of kids content to maj...
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Scott Kraft is known as an Actor, Writer, Executive Producer, Story, and Story Editor. Some of his work includes The Lost World, BeastMaster, Rolie Polie Olie, The Silencer, Queen of Swords, Stickin' Around, Rolie Polie Olie: The Baby Bot Chase, and Wrestling with Alligators.
