Biography
The youngest son of a baptist minister (William Travis Newman), who also worked throughout his life driving city buses and taxicabs and mother (Martha Josephine Fowler Newman), a homemaker, Travis Scott Newman was born in Wichita Falls, Texas and grew up in the Ben Donnell projects of the Wichita Falls Housing Authority. He attended Wichita Falls and Burkburnett public schools and graduated in the 100th senior class of Wichita Falls High School (1991) where he was active in sports, theatre arts and participated in a local children's television program, 'The Wally the Wonderdog Show'(1990-91), as host, writer and puppeteer and also his first film, as an extra in the Peter Bogdanovich directed, 'Texasville' (1990), the sequel to 'The Last Picture Show' (1971), the Academy Award-winning contender for Best Picture, written by Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winning screenwriter/novelist Larry McMurtry, also a Wichita Falls native. While in high school, in the wake of Operation Desert Shield, Newman enlisted in the United States Navy through the delayed entry program and spent the next several years between duty stations and naval commands during Operation Desert Storm as an Aviation Boatswain's Mate specializing in aviation firefighting and catapult systems aboard aircraft carriers such as the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and, while on active-duty and soon following, attended several colleges and universities, majoring in Business and achieving success in the insurance, healthcare and staffing industries but always continuing in his education and passion for film, music and writing. In 2006, while acting on a student film, he met visual effects artist, David Templin and director, Bradley Scott Sullivan and made a decision to pursue acting as a career. He began acting in local theatre productions, commercials, television and film with some success finding smaller roles on such projects as 'Jolene' (2008), 'Live Fast, Die Young' (2008), 'The Deep End' (2010) and was eventually cast on another Sullivan-directed project, the critically-acclaimed low-budget horror hit, 'I Didn't Come Here To Die' (2010), with a supporting performance that drew rave reviews and comparisons to the likes of several Hollywood heavyweights. He continues to find unique roles and appears to be one of the faces of the future in the realm of television and film. He spends time between California, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas.
