Kathryn Leigh Scott Biography
Kathryn Leigh Scott born as Marlene Kathryn Kringstad is an American film and television actress best recognized for playing various roles on Dark Shadows.
She also appeared in the feature films Brannigan with John Wayne; Providence with Dirk Bogarde, directed by Alain Resnais; The Great Gatsby, with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, directed by Jack Clayton; and The Greek Tycoon with Anthony Quinn and Jacqueline Bisset.
Kathryn is a national volunteer spokesperson for CurePSP. She has served on the Boards of the Beverly Hills Women’s Club and the Women’s Club of Hollywood.
Kathryn Leigh Scott Age
Scott was born on January 26, 1943, in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, U.S.A. She is 76 years old as of 2019.
Kathryn Leigh Scott Family
Kathryn is the daughter of Ole Kringstad, a Norwegian immigrant, and Hilda Karlsgodt Kringstad, of Norwegian descent.
Kathryn Leigh Scott Education
Kathryn went to Northwestern University in their mid-year “angel” program while in secondary school. In 1962 she moved to New York to learn at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts on a grant while filling in as a Playboy Bunny in the first New York Playboy Club at 59th and Fifth Avenue. Upon graduation from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Kathryn handled the ingénue lead in the great Gothic daytime show Dark Shadows (ABC, 1966-1971), and featured in the 1971 MGM highlight House of Dark Shadows in 1971. Kathryn assumed four jobs in the arrangement: Maggie Evans, Josette du Pres, Lady Kitty Hampshire, and Rachel Drummond.
Kathryn Leigh Scott Husband | Spouse
Kathryn wedded her first spouse, picture taker Ben Martin, in 1971. They separated in 1990, in spite of the fact that the two remained colleagues in Pomegranate Press. Martin kicked the bucket in February 2017. In 1991, she wedded Los Angeles magazine organizer Geoff Miller. She and Miller stayed together until his passing in 2011 of dynamic supranuclear paralysis.
Kathryn Leigh Scott Career
1971 – 1978
In 1971, she moved to Paris, France, with her life partner, Time/Life photojournalist Ben Martin. In Paris, Kathryn played twins in the French language film L’alfomega. In the wake of the wedding soon thereafter in Vikebukt, Norway, she and her significant other moved to London, England, where she kept functioning as an entertainer.
She showed up in a few TV movies including Crime of Passion, Harriet’s Back In Town, The Turn of the Screw, Marked Personal, Come Die With Me, Dial M For Murder, Space: 1999, and the miniseries Late Call, Edward The King, and The Exiles. She additionally showed up in the component films Brannigan with John Wayne; Providence with Dirk Bogarde, coordinated by Alain Resnais; The Great Gatsby, with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, coordinated by Jack Clayton; and The Greek Tycoon with Anthony Quinn and Jacqueline Bisset.
In 1974, she played Nurse Kelly in a six-month keep running of Harvey with James Stewart, coordinated by Sir Anthony Quayle, at the Prince of Wales Theater, London. The next year she was in another play, Le Weekend, at the Bristol Old Vic, Bristol, England.
In 1978 Scott moved to Los Angeles to star in the CBS arrangement Big Shamus, Little Shamus with Brian Dennehy. She visitor featured in a progression of TV arrangement, and after that came back to England to film The Last Days of Patton with George C. Scott; Murrow with Daniel J. Travanti; Voice of the Heart with James Brolin; and Chandlertown with Powers Boothe.
1985 – 2019
In 1985, Scott propelled Pomegranate Press, Ltd. to distribute books about media outlets, including manuals, histories, course readings, and footstool workmanship books. She composed The Bunny Years (the 25-year history of Playboy Clubs told through the ladies who functioned as Bunnies), which was offered to Imagine Entertainment’s, Brian Grazer.
She likewise co-created a two-hour unique for the A&E Network, and a one-hour narrative for BBC-1 and Canadian TV, in light of the book. Pomegranate has distributed more than 50 genuine titles, including Scott’s books Lobby Cards: The Classic Films (Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Coffee TableBook) and Lobby Cards: The Classic Comedies, the two of which were distributed in the U.K. by Bloomsbury. She distributed an exchange softcover version of the hardcover memoir Coya Come Home, with a foreword by Walter Mondale (2012).
Scott composed Dark Shadows Memories, to match with the arrangement’s twentieth commemoration and Dark Shadows Companion as a 25th commemoration tribute. She has composed three books – Dark Passages (2012), Down and Out in Beverly Heels (2013), and Jinxed (2015); a diary, Last Dance at the Savoy (Cumberland Press, 2016); and a set of three of books on consideration giving: Now With You, Now Without, The Happy Hours, and A Welcome Respite (Grand Harbor, 2017).
Scott plays Mamie Eisenhower in the component film The Eleventh Green (2019) with Campbell Scott. She has additionally as of late showed up in Three Christs (2018) with Richard Gere and Juliana Margulies, and Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York (2018). She showed up in Hallmark Channel’s Broadcasting Christmas (2016) and Lifetime’s A Wedding to Die For (2017), and has a repetitive job as George Segal’s better half Miriam in The Goldbergs. She composed Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood (2012), and showed up in an appearance job in the Johnny Depp/Tim Burton film Dark Shadows (2012).
Kathryn Leigh Scott Pomegranate Press
In 1986, Scott founded Pomegranate Press, which published her books about Dark Shadows, as well as other books authored by her, including The Bunny Years, about the 25-year history of Playboy Bunnies, and coffee table books on film art. Pomegranate Press has also published books by other authors, mainly nonfiction entertainment titles.
Today, she continues to work as an actress (Three Christs with Richard Gere, 2017) and writer (Last Dance At the Savoy, Now With You, Now Without). She reprised a number of her Dark Shadows roles in a series of audio dramas. Scott co-wrote (with Jim Pierson) Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood, an updated retrospective on the original series, including the Tim Burton remake with Johnny Depp, in which Scott has a cameo role. The book was released on April 3, 2012, via Pomegranate Press.
Kathryn Leigh Scott Filmography
- A Rainy Day in New York (2019) – Wanda
- Three Christs (2017) – Victoria Rogers
- Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar (2014) – Madame Von Harbau
- The Rising Light (2013) – Aya
- Doctor Mabuse (2013) – Madame Von Harbau
- Dark Shadows (2012) – Guest
- Parasomnia (2008) – Nurse Margaret Evans
- One Eight Seven (1997) – Anglo Woman
- Assassination (1987) – Polly Sims
- The Last Days of Patton (1986, TV Movie) – Jean Gordon
- Murrow (1986, TV Movie) – Janet Murrow
- Witches’ Brew (1980) – Susan Carey
- Hawaii Five-O (1978) Episode: “My Friend, the Enemy” – Jemilla
- The Greek Tycoon (1978) – Nancy Cassidy
- The Gypsy Warriors (1978) – Lady Asten-Forbes
- Providence (1977) – Miss Boon
- Brannigan (1975) – Miss Allen
- The Great Gatsby (1974) – Catherine
- House of Dark Shadows (1970) – Maggie Evans
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