Scott Wolf Is 'Deeply Grateful' "Doc" Landed in His Life 'When It Did' (Exclusive) Brianne TracyTue, March 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM UTC 0 Scott Wolf in 'Doc'Credit: FOX Scott Wolf is opening up about his personal connection to his role in Fox's Doc Scott says the role came at a time in his life when he was "going through a lot" Scott filed for divorce from his wife of 21 years Kelley Wolf in June 2025 Scott Wolf knows firsthand the power of storytelling. "I've been in the position more than once in my work life where art has imitated life and life has imitated art," the actor tells PEOPLE.
Scott Wolf Is 'Deeply Grateful' "Doc" Landed in His Life 'When It Did' (Exclusive)
Brianne TracyTue, March 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM UTC
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Scott Wolf in 'Doc'Credit: FOX -
Scott Wolf is opening up about his personal connection to his role in Fox's Doc
Scott says the role came at a time in his life when he was "going through a lot"
Scott filed for divorce from his wife of 21 years Kelley Wolf in June 2025
Scott Wolf knows firsthand the power of storytelling.
"I've been in the position more than once in my work life where art has imitated life and life has imitated art," the actor tells PEOPLE. "I've been given the chance often to use, create and make art to serve a story with the experience I'm having."
That was exactly the case for Scott, 57, with season 1 of Doc, the Fox medical drama on which he stars as Dr. Richard Miller.
"I was going through a lot when we made the first season, and just showing up every day was a building process for me," says Scott, who filed for divorce from his wife of 21 years Kelley Wolf in June 2025. "I'm able to look at a lot of the things I've been lucky enough to be a part of — none more than Doc — where things I needed to go through, things I needed to learn, things I needed to better understand about myself, things I needed to work through, somehow were related or connected with or mirrored in the character. It's uncanny sometimes, but I'm grateful for that part of the process."
Scott Wolf in 'Doc' with Patrick Walker and Anya BanerjeeCredit: FOX
In the season 1 finale, Richard is fired from Westside Hospital after it's revealed he'd made a critical mistake that resulted in the death of a patient, which he also attempted to blame on Amy (Molly Parker) after her accident.
Throughout the first season, Scott says it was challenging "to play a person who not only was lying to everyone else, but was also betraying himself."
"To swim around in that all day, every day for an entire season of a show is a lot," he says. "But I was able to use things from my own life experience, and in a way, I think you get to maybe take these experiences or emotions or challenges as things that would be hard to metabolize otherwise."
"I love having the chance to portray people going through things that people walking around in life and sitting down and watching these shows are going through," he continues. "So, it was uncomfortable at times, but worthwhile."
Richard isn't the typical TV villain in that fans get to see some of the struggles he's dealing with at home, including his son's bipolar and schizotypal disorders.
"Our show runners and our writers, they told a really human story where the bad guy was not a mustache twirling, evil person," Scott says. "He was potentially any of us if we backed ourselves into the wrong corner. It's very easy to see a certain person's behavior or their attitude or the way they carry themselves and pass judgment on it. But I think if you ever had a chance to just peek behind the curtain of anyone's life, you'd drop all of that and just feel compassionate toward a person and be more understanding."
Scott recently has had to wrestle with the public's perception of him and his family, amid his and Kelley's ongoing public divorce.
The family reunited for a trip to Universal Studios together in February, with Scott releasing a statement at the time that they were working on "healing."
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"I don't want to speak too much, but what I can say is it became public that our family has gone through a lot over this past couple of years," he says now. "I feel like I'm just so deeply grateful for having had this show land in my life when it did. When you're playing a character, you're always finding a way to access parts of yourself and connect to the character's experience, but sometimes you land dead on in the middle and you and the character are sort of sharing a lot of experience. And I do think that probably has contributed to why that character, even though he was the 'bad guy,' has become someone that everyone's like, 'Well, wait a minute,' and not writing him off."
"I mean, I can't overstate how grateful I am that Doc arrived in my life," he adds. "I just can't say enough about how meaningful the show is to me, has been to me, and continues to be. It's been a real gift. Never have I needed the arrival of something more than I did when Doc showed up in my life, and that's both as an actor and as a person, and I'm incredibly grateful."After managing to get his old job back, Scott's Richard was able to make his return to Westside in the season 2 episode that aired March 3.
"When season 1 ended, there really was no telling whether there was a future for Dr. Miller at this hospital, and this is the most wonderfully complicated character I've had a chance to play, so I was sad at the prospect of having his story come to an end," he says. "Obviously, I was really excited when I found out I'd be coming back."
Scott Wolf in 'Doc' with Molly ParkerCredit: FOX
Scott adds that it's "emotionally" and "psychologically easier" to play Richard this time around.
"It's almost like playing a different character this season because everything he did and said last year was a function of this lie that he was living underneath, and having to cover it and survive it," he says. "And so we never really got to see the sort most authentic version of who this person is as a doctor and as a friend and as a colleague."
"I've loved having the chance to play Richard this season where he feels like the big idea now is to be his full self, be the man he is and the colleague he is, the team player he is, and the physician he is, and hope it's good enough that people will come back to him and learn to trust him again and accept that he made mistakes and that he is willing to work hard for this second chance," he adds. "But yeah, it's been icy in there. Nobody really wants him around right now."
Scott Wolf in 'Doc'Credit: FOX
Towards the end of season 2, Scott says the show explores what Richard has "learned from everything that happened with this mistake he made and covering it up."
"I think he's aware of what his presence is doing to people, and I don't think he loves that," he says. "I think he really wants a second chance. He doesn't feel like he should lose his entire life and his life's work over having made a mistake, and then he didn't feel safe coming clean about it, so I think he believes he deserves this second chance. As things go forward, it's impossible for him not to see the impact it's having on everyone."
On Monday, March 9, it was announced that Doc has been renewed for a third season.
"It's such an incredible group of people, so I'm super excited for everyone that the show gets to continue," Scott says. "Whether Richard is around for one or a hundred more episodes, it's been a huge gift."
New episodes of Doc premiere Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.
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Published: March 10, 2026 at 06:46PM on Source: PRIME TIME
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