Jacqueline Scott

Jacqueline Sue Scott
Jacqueline Scott in trailer for Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
Born	(1932-01-01) January 1, 1932 (age 85) Sikeston, Scott County Missouri, USA
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1956–present
Spouse(s)	Gene Lesser (m. 1958)
Children	2

Jacqueline Sue Scott (born January 1, 1932) is an American actress who has appeared in several films and guest starred in more than one hundred television programs. A TV Guide article once referred to her as "The Youngest Old-Timer in the Business," because she played opposite most of the leading men of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Scott was born in Sikeston in Scott County in southeastern Missouri. She spent a good part of her childhood moving from town to town following her father, who worked for the state purchasing right-of-way for roads. She attended 15 grade schools before settling down in Neosho, Missouri, to attend high school there.

At age three, she won a tap dancing contest, which led her to pursue a show business career. As training, she saw every movie she could, learning how to mouth the actors' lines. Eventually she moved to St. Louis, where she worked for a small theatre company, and soon afterwards left for New York City to begin her career in earnest. There she studied with Uta Hagen. Her first major role on Broadway was as the ingenue lead in The Wooden Dish, which starred Louis Calhern. This was followed by the ingenue lead in Inherit the Wind, which starred Paul Muni.

Scott made her motion picture debut in William Castle's Macabre (1958), famous for the promotional gimmicks employed by Castle. During production of Macabre in 1957 she met Gene Lesser and they were married a few months later.