L. Scott Caldwell Net Worth

L. Scott Caldwell is an accomplished actress with a long list of credits in feature films, television, and theater. She won a Tony Award for her role in Joe Turner's "Come & Gone" and has appeared in numerous television shows, including Judging Amy, JAG, The Practice, ER, and Nip and Tuck. She is currently playing Rose, a recurring character on the hit ABC show Lost, and her importance in the show is growing with each episode. Caldwell was born in Chicago and now lives in New York City, but spends most of her time in Hawaii.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress
Birth Day April 17, 1950
Birth Place  Chicago, Illinois, United States
Age 73 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Taurus
Other names Scotty Caldwell
Occupation Actress
Years active 1978–present
Children 1

💰 Net worth: $850,000 (2024)

L. Scott Caldwell, a renowned actress in the United States, is estimated to have a net worth of $850,000 in 2024. With a successful career spanning several decades, she has established herself as a respected figure in the entertainment industry. Known for her talent and versatility, Caldwell has portrayed a range of memorable characters across both film and television. Her dedication to her craft has not only earned her critical acclaim but also financial success, contributing to her impressive net worth.

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Biography/Timeline

1967

Her class went to see a performance of A Day of Absence, featuring Douglas Turner Ward, a co-founder of The Negro Ensemble Company. It was the first time she saw professional black actors on stage. After graduating high school in 1967, she attended Northwestern University. She left after one year and went to work full-time as an operator at Illinois Bell. She got married and had a son. She transferred her credits to Loyola University-Chicago and earned a bachelor's degree in Theater Arts and Communications.

1978

Caldwell planned on a teaching career and taught at Chicago High School of the Performing Arts. She also worked a year for the Chicago Council on Fine Arts as an artist-in-residence. While in Chicago Caldwell performed in local theatrical productions at the Body Politic, Court Theater, and Eleventh Street Theater. She went to New York in 1978 to audition for Uta Hagen's school HB Studio. While waiting to audition she saw an ad for The Negro Ensemble Company. After her audition at Hagen's school she took the subway to the NEC.

1980

In her early twenties Scott married John Caldwell and had a son, Ominara. She was divorced in the early 1980s, and was married again (on her birthday) in 2004 to artist/photographer/director Dasal Banks. Banks suffered from cancer and died in May 2005. Caldwell completed her husband's final film, My Brothers and Me, a documentary created to raise awareness about prostate cancer among black men.

1984

In December 1984, while working in Play of Giants, Caldwell was struck by a car while hailing a cab on Columbus Avenue in New York. She suffered a severe back injury and was unable to work for nearly two years. Her first audition after her recovery was for August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Her performance as Bertha Holly earned her a 1988 Tony Award. Soon after winning the Tony, she moved to southern California to work in television and film. She is extremely busy, working in several cities in the U.S., Canada, and South Africa, and continues to work in theater. She returned to Broadway in 1997 as the lead in Neil Simon's short-lived Proposals. After Proposals closed Caldwell performed the role of Leah, Little Augie's sister, in New York City Center's Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert production of St. Louis Woman.

2006

In 2006, she made her Goodman Theatre debut in Regina Taylor's The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove. In 2011, she took on role of Lena Younger in the Ebony Repertory Theatre production of the Lorraine Hansberry classic A Raisin in the Sun. The play was directed by Phylicia Rashad. Caldwell, along with the entire cast, was nominated for the LA Stage Alliance 2011 Ovation Award for her work as Lena, for which she won the 2011 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award.

2007

Caldwell gives lectures and appears on panels concerning African American actors. In 2007, she participated in tributes to August Wilson at Goodman Theatre in conjunction with Congo Square Theatre Company in Chicago, and at St. Louis Black Repertory Company. In June 2008, she participated in the NAACP Theatre Awards Festival Actors on Acting panel. In June 2009, Caldwell moderated a panel of actors, Directors, and casting Directors discussing African American Images in Hollywood. In February 2010, she directed a staged reading of Standing On My Sisters' Shoulders for the Los Angeles chapter of Actors Equity Association.

2008

Caldwell is an active member of Unite For Strength, the Screen Actors Guild coalition in favor of joining with AFTRA. On September 19, 2008, she won a seat as an alternate on the national board of Directors and Hollywood division board of Directors. Caldwell was elected to a second one-year term September 24, 2009. She served on the Seniors, Legislative, Women, Holiday Host, Honors and Tributes, and EEOC committees. In September 2010, she was elected to a one-year term on the national board of Directors. She served as the national chair of the Women's committee. In 2011, Caldwell is on the SAG national board of Directors ballot for a fourth consecutive year. She won a three-year term on the national and Hollywood boards. She will serve as national chair of Women, and Health care Safetynet committees.

2016

In 2016, she was part of the six-part PBS Civil War drama miniseries "Mercy Street".