Trivia

Worked as a carpenter and set designer on film sets.

Has no formal acting training.

His father started to call him Scooter from when Scoot was two years old because he used to "scoot around on his butt".

He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners in consecutive years: Argo (2012) and 12 Years a Slave (2013).

He originally wanted to be a cinematographer.

Was in an on-screen relationship with Kerry Bishé in both Argo (2012) and the AMC television series Halt and Catch Fire (2014).

After spending most of his acting career living in LA, he and wife Whitney moved back to his native Texas. They divorced in 2019.

One of his first big acting jobs was in a Levi's commercial where he had to allow himself to be thrown from a mechanical bull, even though he had grown up in Texas simulating just this kind of bull-riding with friends--practicing on ''barrels that you tied to four trees with springs on them. A guy would get on each rope and rock the barrel back and forth".

Scoot has worked with Ben Affleck in several productions, an Axe commercial, Oscar winner Argo (2012), Gone Girl (2014), and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

McNairy had one nomination and one win from the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, for his role as a producer for the film In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007). The Independent Spirit Awards nominated him for the 2009 John Cassavetes Award, as best producer, along with Scott Allen Caplan. They were announced as the winners of the award at the 2009 Independent Spirit Award ceremony.

Began acting in his early twenties after moving to Austin, Texas and being cast in his friend Alex Holbridge's film Wrong Numbers (2001).