Born Judith Spears on Dec 22, 1965, in
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Scott is the eldest of three children born to Henrietta Eleanor (née Evans) and Julian Herbert Spears, then an officer in the
United States Army Special Forces. Reflecting her father's respective reassignments, the family's address shifted frequently during Scott's pre-school years, encompassing North Carolina,
Georgia,
Kentucky, and even
Germany. Six years in
Tennessee were followed by moves to
Delaware, and, finally, to
Illinois, where, following her brief attendance at
Webster College and an unfulfilling one-year expedition to
Paris, Scott finally found what she had been searching for in the form of Chicago's
Second City (stumbled upon after exiting a nearby restroom). I heard people laughing and decided to poke my head in. I said to myself, 'How do I get a piece of this? I want
in on this party.' [...] The theater, particularly Second City, was grad school for me. I learned a lot of life lessons out of that place. She has also appeared in feature films such as the 1994
The Santa Clause movie starring
Tim Allen,
Guess Who,
Fracture, and
Flightplan. She played Claudia in FX's
Snowfall. Her upcoming projects include
Geechee. == Filmography ==