Jill Scott is a Grammy Award-winning recording artist
who's also a poet and actress, known for roles in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective
Agency and Steel Magnolias.
Born on April 4, 1972, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Jill Scott performed in a Canadian production of Rent before releasing her
debut album, Who Is Jill Scott?. She has since released several more albums and
earned three Grammy Awards as of 2013 while also working as an actress,
starring in projects like Why Did I Get Married?, The No. 1 Ladies Detective
Agency and Steel Magnolias.
Jill Scott was born on April 4, 1972, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and raised as an only child by her mother and grandmother. She
discovered the poetry of Nikki Giovanni in the 8th grade and was majorly
inspired by her work, with Scott later enjoying writers like Octavia Butler and
J. California Cooper as well. She also developed a passion for music and
singing, taking to certain jazz and soul greats and learning the craft largely
on her own.
She released Experience: Jill Scott 826+ in 2001, a two
disc set that featured both concert recordings and new, unreleased tracks,
including a duet with Common.
In 2004, Scott released her next studio album,
Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds, Vol. 2. with the lead single
"Golden." Her next album, the relationship and sexuality oriented The
Real Thing: Words and Sounds, Vol. 3, came forth in 2007, the same year in
which she and her husband Lyzel Williams divorced.
Scott worked as a poet and attended Temple University
with the intention of becoming a teacher, but left school to take up a drama
apprenticeship. She landed a part in a Canadian touring production of Rent,
but, finding the repetition of a staged musical creatively stifling, left the
show in 1999 to focus on her own projects.
Scott has found major success in a variety of art forms.
In 2005 she released her book of poetry The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours
with St. Martin's Press. She then made her film debut portraying blues great
Big Mama Thornton in Hounddog, starring Dakota Fanning, which was showcased at
Cannes in 2007. That same year saw the U.S. release of Tyler Perry's Why Did I
Get Married, in which Scott was among an ensemble cast that included Janet
Jackson and Perry himself. She reprised her role for the film's 2010 sequel as
well.
'Steel Magnolias'
Scott returned to TV in 2012 in the Lifetime remake of
famed play and film Steel Magnolias, co-starring Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad
and Alfre Woodard, among others. For 2013, Scott signed on to take a role as a
doctor in the CBS cop-drama pilot Second Sight and will be featured in the film
Baggage Claim, scheduled for the fall.
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