HUNTSVILLE, Ala. >> Actor Scott Porter can make sounds with his throat like a trumpet or an electric guitar or even sleigh bells. But somehow that’s not a big seller in show business. Fortunately for Porter he found something else he was good at: acting.

Making musical gurgles doesn’t sound like a sure way to the top. But he says he’s been forced to entertain by his own DNA. “I came up in a performing family,” he explains.

“My mom and dad met in a rock band when I was 6 years old, and I traveled with them quite a bit. I helped my dad set up his drums set, would fall asleep in the bar manager’s office, or play foosball with the bouncer while they played up on stage across the Midwest. So performance was a part of my DNA from a very young age,” he says.

Folks can see the results when they view the affable Porter playing the city mayor in the Netflix dramady, “Ginny & Georgia,” returning on June 5.

As it might sound, Porter’s journey from his native Omaha, Nebraska, to “Ginny & Georgia” was a circuitous one. A self-described “extroverted introvert,” he moved often as a kid as his parents pursued their careers.

While Porter never knew his bio-dad, he is devoted to his stepfather and extended family. “Being a son of artists, which are what my parents are in their hearts, we jumped around a lot,” he says.

“I went to six different elementary and middle schools. I was always the new kid. I was always having to fight to find my place in whatever new situation I was in. Being the new kid puts a little bit of a chip on your shoulder. You have to prove yourself to everybody around you at all times so that you can fit in as quickly as possible and have some type of safety net or find one friend at least to hang onto. And being an only child, that was going through all of those switches by myself.”

It was his love of reading and a vivid imagination that pushed him through. “I would play multi-week campaigns with my G.I. Joes where there would be a full storyline and there would be tragedy and comedy and triumphs,” he chuckles.

He also loved video games and proved an avid reader. “As a kid I was very just interested in long-form storytelling and being whisked away from my bedroom in Nebraska to incredible lands and other places and living life through those stories.”