Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
April 4, 1972 (53 years old)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Jill Heather Scott
Jill Scott
Biography
Jill Heather Scott (born April 4, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, model, poet, and actress. Her 2000 debut album, Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds Vol. 1, went platinum and the follow-ups Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 (2004) and The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 (2007) both achieved gold status.
Scott made her film debut in 2007 in Hounddog and Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?. In 2008, she starred in the BBC/HBO series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, based on the novels of the same name by Alexander McCall Smith. After a four-year hiatus from music, Scott released her fourth album, The Light of the Sun, in 2011. In 2014, she starred in the film Get on Up as Deidre "Dee Dee" Jenkins, the second wife of James Brown. In 2015, she released her fifth album, Woman. Beginning in 2018, Scott appeared in The CW DC Comics superhero series Black Lightning as Lady Eve.
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Known For
Acting
Outlaw Johnny Black
2023
Abbott Elementary
2021
First Wives Club
2019
Tamron Hall
2019
Black Lightning
2018
Love Beats Rhymes
2017
Flint
2017
With This Ring
2015
black-ish
2014
Get on Up
2014
Baggage Claim
2013
Steel Magnolias
2012
Why Did I Get Married Too?
2010
Black Panther
2010
Black Panther
2010
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
2009
Hounddog
2008
Fringe
2008
Why Did I Get Married?
2007
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
2005
Cavedweller
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Girlfriends
2000
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
