Scott Coffey

After a year he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his film career, appearing in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and SpaceCamp. His television work included a special The New Twilight Zone episode entitled "Private Channel", as well as an episode of Amazing Stories directed by Robert Zemeckis. In 1989, Coffey played the major role of Chip in Shag.

Coffey formed a friendship with actress Naomi Watts when the two worked together in the 1995 film Tank Girl. Coffey directed Watts in Ellie Parker and past shorts of the same character name. The two have also appeared in other works together, including the 2001 mystery feature Mulholland Drive.

His first feature film, Ellie Parker (2005), which finished production in July 2005, was an Official Selection of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and won the New American Cinema Special Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival. He wrote All God's Children Can Dance, a film adaptation of a story by Haruki Murakami. Coffey also directed the 2013 indie Adult World.