Kathryn Leigh Scott (born Marlene Kathryn Kringstad on January 29, 1945) is an American television and film actress.
Biography
Scott was born Marlene Kathryn Kringstad on January 26, 1945 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. Prior to Dark Shadows, she worked as a Playboy bunny and changed her name to Kathryn Leigh Scott. In 1966, she was cast as Maggie Evans the waitress-turned-governess on the ABC-TV cult serial Dark Shadows. During her tenure at the show, she played Josette du Pres Collins (a lover of Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) who was killed at Widow's Hill in 1795), Rachel Drummond (a governess during 1897), Kitty Soames (aka Lady Hampshire on the second-half of the 1897 storyline), and Maggie Collins (Maggie Evans, who married Quentin Collins (David Selby) in Parallel Time 1970).
She appeared in House of Dark Shadows, a MGM picture based on the Dark Shadows TV series in 1970. That same year in September, she decided to leave the show to move to France with her boyfriend and photographer Ben Martin, whom she later married. A few months later, Dark Shadows ended its five year run in April 1971.
After Dark Shadows she made guest appearances on TV shows like Quincy, Magnum, P.I., Cagney and Lacey (in which her old Dark Shadows co-star John Karlen played Harvey Lacey, the husband of Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daly), Matlock, The Incredible Hulk, The A-Team, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Also she appeared in movies like The Great Gatsby.
In 1979, she co-starred in the short-lived CBS series Big Shamus, Little Shamus with Brian Dennehy. In 1983, she co-starred in Philip Marlowe, Private Eye with Powers Boothe on HBO until 1986.
In 1986, just a year after her old Dark Shadows co-stars Grayson Hall and Joel Crothers died, she founded a publishing company called Pomegranate Press in which she wrote books about Dark Shadows and other stories.
Today, she appears in yearly Dark Shadows Festivals, book signings, and other events. She later divorced Ben Martin, though the two remain business partners, and is now married to Geoff Miller.
She appeared in VH1's When Ruled the World series in episode called When Playboy Ruled The World, in which she was interviewed.
External links
Kathryn Leigh Scott at the Internet Movie Database
Official website
Interview with Scott
Scott's publishing company's official website
Original Dark Shadows Audio Dramas starring Kathryn Leigh Scott
Kathryn Leigh Scott article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
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Categories: 1945 births | Living people | American television actors | American writers | People from Minnesota
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