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| Born | Robert Scott Adsit November 26, 1965 Northbrook, Illinois, U.S. |
| Education | Glenbrook North High School[1] |
| Alma mater | Columbia College Chicago |
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| Years active | 1987–present |
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Robert Scott Adsit[2] (born November 26, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, Adsit joined the mainstage cast of Chicago's The Second City in 1994 after attending Columbia College Chicago. He appeared in several revues, including Paradigm Lost for which he won The Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Comedy.
From 2005 to 2008, he codirected, co-wrote and co-produced the Adult Swim stop-motion animation program Moral Orel with Dino Stamatopoulos and Jay Johnston. He also voiced several characters and was nominated for an Annie Award for his work as Clay Puppington, Orel's father. After the success of Moral Orel, Adsit and Stamatopoulos worked together again on the stop-motion animation series Mary Shelley's Frankenhole (2010–2012).
Adsit is known for his role as Pete Hornberger, the well-meaning but jaded producer, on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, which won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2008. In 2014, Adsit voiced the robot Baymax in the Disney animated film Big Hero 6, which he reprised in both Big Hero 6: The Series (2017–2021) and the Disney+ series Baymax!.
- ^ "'30 Rock' actor is Glenbrook North grad". Chicago.blockshopper.com. Archived from the original on February 1, 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2011.
- ^ Kharakh, Ben (October 10, 2007). "Scott Adsit, Actor, 30 Rock". Gothamist. Archived from the original on July 9, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2011.