Sarah Scott

Sarah Scott is an actress and intimacy coordinator. She was born in Lincoln, NE and grew up outside the Dallas, Ft. Worth area. Scott began training as a jazz dancer from an early age and joined a competitive company when she was thirteen. The summers spent in New York with dance class, theatre, and art led to a love affair with the city and her attending New York University. While studying Culture and Communications, and in between an internship with New Line Cinema, Scott cut her teeth acting doing variety shows and fringe theatre. She lived for a year in London and completed the Shakespearean Studies program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Scott's first television appearance was a featured part on Fox's Arrested Development (2003). Producers brought Scott back for a similar stunt in the third season. She has gone on to guest star on TV shows including CSI: NY (2004), True Blood (2008), Nip/Tuck (2003), Castle (2009), Bones (2005), Masters of Sex (2013), and The Orville (2017). Scott has carried leading roles in the independent features Desperate Waters (2019), Sam (2017), The Grind (2009), The Last Hurrah (2009), and The Devil's Muse (2007). Scott's most notable performance to date is her haunting portrayal of Courtney Love in Soaked in Bleach (2015). The explosive docu/drama examines the death of rocker Kurt Cobain that was ruled a suicide in 1994. Soaked in Bleach was the third most popular documentary on IMDB in 2015 and was produced by Richard Middleton, producer of the black-and-white silent film, The Artist (2011) in which Scott plays Laughing Dancer in the dream sequence. The Artist went on to win an Oscar for Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 2012.