Scottie Jefferies

Scottie "Scott" Jefferies was born in Corpus Christi, TX. His father Scottie Jefferies, a well-known businessman in the Texas Oilfield 1970's and 1980's was born in Abilene, TX. His mother Thelda Jefferies (Crow) is from Cross Plains, TX. His father is from English descent and his mother is Welsh and Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) descent. Scottie moved to San Antonio, TX with his family in 1981. As a teenager he was known as Scott, and a celebrated athlete during his high school years at Theodore Roosevelt High School in San Antonio, TX. During his Texas School-boy days Scottie played quarterback for Texas coaching legend John Ferrera from 1982-1985. Ferrera coached Texas high school greats Tommy Kramer (Minnesota Vikings), Vann McElroy (Los Angeles Raiders), AJ Johnson (Washington Redskins) Richard Osborne (New York Jets) Pat Rocket (Atlanta Braves) and Scott Coolbaugh (Baltimore Orioles) along with many more. Ferrera's reputation of running a Marine style football program, is what Scottie credits much of his life success to. During his time at Roosevelt, he was highly recruited as a quarterback and punter before the 1985 football season. In his Junior year, he scored the winning touchdown to knock off then No. 1 5A ranked Converse Judson who incidentally held the top spot in the country at that time. He also excelled in track and field where he qualified for the AAU National meet in the 4 X 100-meter relay in the summer before the 1984 school year. In 1986 he entered Baylor University to study law and to play football. A week before final semester exams of his Freshman year, he was involved in a severe car wreck in which he sustained a Sub Dural Hematoma that placed him in a coma for a week and then an unconscious state for an additional week. He had severe cognitive injuries that required him to learn how to read and write again. In addition, he had broken both feet severely, as well as partially crushed knee that required him to learn to walk again. He left Baylor for three years and completed his degree in 1994. After graduation Scott went back and forth from Houston, TX and Maracaibo, Venezuela where he worked as roustabout for 6 years. He got the acting bug when he met now close friend Jason Fischer who was starting production on a local Independent film in 1998. Fischer is known for the dual writing credits on the new film in development titled Evans about the famed Hollywood producer Robert Evans. For his role in Going Independent, Jefferies received an award from the Houston Worldfest as best supporting actor. In 2008 Jefferies was cast as Grant Halbert on the NBC Series Friday Night Lights working opposite of Scott Porter as the series lead Jason Street. In 2010 he co-starred on The Good Guys as Grimes in the episode Bait & Switch. In 2010 he was cast to work on Machete by director Robert Rodriguez starring Danny Trejo. Scottie worked alongside Nimród Antal, Alcides Dias and Dimitrius Pulido as the Henchmen 1, 2, 3 & 4. In 2010 Scottie was cast in the short-lived NBC series Chase that was shot in Texas as the SWAT Commander Betrayed. In 2011 The Texas Triangle as Vaughn. In 2019 the film Beverly H. written by Fischer in now in post-production. Scottie stars as The Messenger in the sci-fi thriller that is set to be released in 2020.