Editing Scott Bakula (section)

==Early life==
Bakula was born in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], the son of Sally ({{nee|Zumwinkel}}) and Joseph Stewart Bakula (1928–2014), a lawyer.<ref name="nl.newsbank.com">{{Cite news |date=April 17, 1998 |title=Actor Scott Bakula takes the city by storm to launch his new movie |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB086DAF7BC54CC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |access-date=September 25, 2013 |archive-date=September 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927074743/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB086DAF7BC54CC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=November 4, 2008 |title=Zumwinkel, Edwin F |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=124413333B66ECA8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |access-date=September 25, 2013 |archive-date=September 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927074730/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=124413333B66ECA8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Holleman |first=Joe |date=June 5, 2014 |title=J. Stewart Bakula, Scott Bakula's father, died Monday |url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/joe-holleman/j-stewart-bakula-scott-bakula-s-father-died-monday/article_a20fba3e-0f60-59bf-bd40-7bbec33b0c68.html |access-date=March 22, 2020 |website=STLtoday.com |language=en |archive-date=March 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322015623/https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/joe-holleman/j-stewart-bakula-scott-bakula-s-father-died-monday/article_a20fba3e-0f60-59bf-bd40-7bbec33b0c68.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bakula |date=1946 |title=Missouri, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940–1945 |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLX1-ZLKK |website=FamilySearch}}</ref> He has a younger brother and a younger sister.<ref name="unexpurgated-p2">{{Cite web |date=August 13, 2000 |title=Complete, Unexpurgated Transcript of the Scott Bakula Interview from the SCI FI Program ''Sciographpy: Quantum Leap'' |url=http://www.scifi.com/quantum/castcrew/bakulaint2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060714064944/http://www.scifi.com/quantum/castcrew/bakulaint2.html |archive-date=July 14, 2006 |publisher=Quantum Leap official site ([[Syfy|Sci Fi Channel]])}}</ref> He attended [[Jefferson College (Missouri)|Jefferson College]],<ref name="www.tvguide.com">{{Cite web |title=Scott Bakula |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/scott-bakula/bio/174014/ |website=TV Guide}}</ref><ref name="http://www.websterkirkwoodtimes.com">{{Cite web |date=June 21, 2002 |title=Back Home With Scott Bakula |url=http://www.websterkirkwoodtimes.com/Articles-i-2002-06-21-177496.114137-Back-Home-With-Scott-Bakula.html#axzz3aRcjYULz |website=Webster-Kirkwood Times Online |access-date=May 18, 2015 |archive-date=October 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008083053/http://www.websterkirkwoodtimes.com/Articles-i-2002-06-21-177496.114137-Back-Home-With-Scott-Bakula.html#axzz3aRcjYULz |url-status=live }}</ref> followed by the [[University of Kansas]] for a time, but left, saying:
{{quote|...because I was offered a tour of ''[[Godspell]]'', a national tour that was from St. Louis. I thought that sounded great, and I went to my parents and I said "I want to do this tour", and they said, "Go ahead, maybe it will get it out of your system. And you come back to school in a year or two, you come back." The tour was gonna start in August and the tour never started and school did, and then the tour fell apart, and there I was sitting at home. So I was left holding the bag, basically, and then had to decide where to go from there. And I applied, was applying to other schools. I was gonna go to a Mormon theatrical kind of school, and the more I looked at it the more I spent time examining the school side of it. I just realized what I really needed to do was just pick up, pack up and go to New York.<ref name="unexpurgated-p2" />}}