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L. Scott Caldwell (born Laverne Scott, 1950) is an American actress perhaps best known for her roles as Deputy U.S. Marshall Erin Poole in The Fugitive (1993) and Rose on the television series Lost. Early life Born the middle child in Chicago, Illinois, to working-class parents, Laverne Scott grew up in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side. At a high enrollment elementary school, she attended the morning session, and her older siblings went to school in the afternoon. When the school released her at noon she was escorted to a neighborhood theater where she was minded by a friend of her mother. While attending Hyde Park High School, she joined the drama club. 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. Career 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. Caldwell was initially rebuffed by the person who interviewed her but she insisted on meeting with Ward. She used the three pieces she performed at her audition for Hagen. She was accepted by both Hagen and Ward. During her first season at NEC Caldwell performed in several plays. One of those plays, Home, by Samm Art Williams, took her to Broadway's Cort Theatre in 1980. The play was critically acclaimed and earned a Tony Award nomination for Charles Brown. After Home closed Caldwell worked in several regional theater productions including Boesman and Lena at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and A Raisin in the Sun at Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York. In December 1984, while working in A 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 has been 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. In 2006, she made her Goodman Theatre debut in Regina Taylor's The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove. In 2011, she took on the 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. 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 the Hollywood division board of directors. Caldwell was elected to a second one-year term on 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 was othe SAG national board of directors ballot for a fourth consecutive year. She won a three-year term on the national and Hollywood boards. She would serve as national chair of Women, and Healthcare Safetynet committees. In 2016, she was part of the PBS Civil War drama series Mercy Street. Personal life 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. 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. Credits Film Television Theatre 2017 Gem of the Ocean as Aunt Ester Tyler 2014 What I Learned In Paris as Eve Madison 2014 The Wife's Story as She 2011 A Raisin in the Sun as Lena Younger 2011 The Circle as Donna 2009 Reverse Transcription Staged Reading as Ottoline 2006 The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove as Sarah Breedlove / Madam C.J. Walker 2000–2005 Going to St. Ives (radio broadcast and recording) as May N'Kame 1998 St. Louis Woman as Leah 1997 Proposals as Clemma Diggins 1997 Macbeth as Lady Macbeth 1995 American Medea as Medea 1991 The Piano Lesson as Berniece 1990 From the Mississippi Delta as Miss Rosebud / Brother Pastor 1987–1988 Joe Turner's Come and Gone as Bertha Holly 1987 A Month of Sundays as Understudy Mrs. Baker 1986 Elegies for the Fallen Staged Reading 1984 A Play of Giants as Ambassador 1983 About Heaven & Earth as Black Woman, The Redeemer / Raimy, Nightline 1982 A Raisin in the Sun as Ruth Younger 1982 Colored Peoples Time as Catherine / Addie / Nadine / Ida 1982 Boesman and Lena as Lena 1980–1981 Home as Pattie Mae Wells / Woman One (Broadway debut) 1979 A Season to Unravel as Afrodite 1979 Plays From Africa – Everyman & The Imprisonment of Obatala 1979 Old Phantoms as Ruth 1978 Daughters of the Mock as Gail 1977 The Thesmophoriazousae as Sosie (Chicago – Court Theatre) 1975 The Other Cinderella (C.... 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Tom L. Scott v. Honorable Grainger W. Mcilhany
Supreme Court Of UtahThis is an original mandamus proceeding involving pretrial discovery of expert witnesses. The relators, Tom L. Scott, Inc. and others, seek relief from orders signed by the respond...
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Sapphic Secrets
Kyoko ChurchLabelled a nymphomaniac because of her passion, Lillianne Draper is forced to spend her days restrained. She has managed to banish the nefarious Dr Samms, who has watched her const...
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Pleasure Island
TG HaynesReclusive, enigmatic Roxanna May self styled Princess of 'Pleasure Island' fiercely guards her privacy to such an extent that no member of the press has managed to obtain an inte...
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Sated
Demelza HartSated – Book Three in The Suited To You TrilogyTara is moving on without The Suit. But can she forget him?When The Suit turns up expectantly, is he prepared to do what’s necessary ...
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Mark Howlett v. Scott Rose
Supreme Court of the United States[ 58 U.S.L.W. Page 358] Section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, Rev. Stat. § 1979, now codified as 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982 ed.), creates a remedy for violations of ...
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Austin
S. L. ScottFrom New York Times Bestselling Author, S. L. Scott, comes the From the Inside Out series. Scorned (Book 1) and Jealousy (Book 2) should be read before Austin or Dylan. Austin and ...
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Clarissa
J. ManxAn erotic short story with femdom themes from Xcite Books.A relationship develops between a taxi driver and an air hostess who he regularly drives to the airport. During the trips,...
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The Twenties
Edmund WilsonIn these pages, The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, the preeminent literary critic Edmund Wilson gives us perhaps the largest authentic document of the time, th...
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Ayers. Scott. Mccabe.
Supreme Court of the United StatesIt is established by the decision of this court, that while "the exercise of the power of punishment for contempt of their orders, by courts of general jurisdiction, is not subject...
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Restless Spirit
Sommer MarsdenTuesday Cane walks out on her life and her abusive man when she inherits her grandmother’s house at Allister Lake.There she finds plenty of distractions to take her mind off her lo...
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Scott v. Mcneal.
Supreme Court of the United StatesThe plaintiff formerly owned the land in question, and still owns it, unless he has been deprived of it by a sale and conveyance, under order of the probate court of the county of ...
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Shadowplay
Portia Da CostaPhotographer Christabel is drawn to psychic phenomena and dark liasons. When she is persuaded by her husband to take a holiday at a mysterious mansion house in the country, she for...
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Abron Scott v. Richard L. Dugger
Supreme Court of FloridaAbron Scott appeals the trial courts denial of his motion to vacate his conviction and sentence pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. We also have before us a petit...
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Scott Wayne Blystone v. Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of the United States[ 58 U.S.L.W. Page 301] Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court.
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Passion Rooms
Valerie GreyMost bedrooms are intimate, but there's something intangibly sexy about staying in a hotel bedroom. Perhaps it's that home away from home feeling, or is it more to do with shedding...
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The Lady Is A Vamp
Michelle KellyDetective Nick Carter is a cop with a difference – not only does he investigate the hidden world of preternatural crime, but he is a telepath, able to read other people’s minds. De...
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Dylan
S. L. ScottFrom New York Times Bestselling Author, comes this bestselling series. Scorned (Book 1) and Jealousy (Book 2) should be read before Austin or Dylan. Austin and Dylan: One woman. Tw...
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Scott v. Illinois
Supreme Court of the United StatesWe granted certiorari in this case to resolve a conflict among state and lower federal courts regarding the proper application of our decision in Argersinger v. Hamlin, 407 U.S. 25...
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Hickman v. Fort Scott
Supreme Court of the United StatesMR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. In the original action upon the bonds held by Hickman, a jury having been waived by written stipulat...
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The Science of Marvel
Sebastian AlvaradoScience meets fantasy in this behindthescenes look at the Marvel Cinematic Universenow you can experience the magic of the movies, and learn how to replicate it in reallife. The Ma...
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First Times
Elizabeth ColdwellA collection of ten stories by some of Xcite's bestselling authors from the UK, US and beyond. These stories explore what it means to be someone's first, or to take that step into ...
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Scott Et Al. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United StatesIn 1968, Congress enacted Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, which deals with wiretapping and other forms of electronic surveillance. 18 U. S. C. ...
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Scorned
S. L. ScottPART 1 of the From the Inside Out Serial by New York Times Bestselling Author S. L. Scott. We shared a love that regulated every heartbeat and every breath we took. It was a...
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The Red Scare
Lynn LakeAn erotic novella based in 1950's America with mixed themes including girl on girl action, mystery/suspense and BDSM.1957, Washington, DC. Sleazy PI, Megan McCarthy, is hired by pu...
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Songs for Simple Hearts
Scarlett RushTroianne is an actress who knows about the pitfalls of professional romances. She is always going weak at the knees for all those beautiful celebrities, both men and women, who she...
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Pleasure Haven
Genevieve AshAn erotic novella with mixed themes including spanking, female submission and role play.Trish lives a quiet, happy life until she meets Josh, and he turns her world upside down. Wo...
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Power Games
Roxy MartinAn Xcite Books collection of five erotic stories with mixed themes including m/f, m/m and BDSM.Power Games by Roxy MartinSexy Vincent Carlton calls Kirsten's boyfriend into the off...
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Lost in Translation
S. L. ScottKandace Miller is a star student who stays on the straight and narrow path of her perfectly planned life.Olivier DeMarche always chooses the shortcut in life, wanting the easy way ...
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From the Inside Out
S. L. ScottNow all four parts of the bestselling serial by New York Times Bestselling Author, S. L. Scott, are in one book. This set includes: Scorned, Jealousy, Dylan, and Austin. We s...
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United States v. Scott
Supreme Court of the United StatesOn March 5, 1975, respondent, a member of the police force in Muskegon, Mich., was charged in a threecount indictment with distribution of various narcotics. Both before his trial ...
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From the Inside Out
S. L. ScottNow all four parts of the bestselling serial by New York Times Bestselling Author, S. L. Scott, are in one compilation. This set includes: Scorned, Jealousy, Dylan, and Austin. ...
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E.L. Scott Roofing Co. v. North Carolina
Court of Appeals of North Carolina No. 8610SC156Scott and Pennsylvania National, having filed a joint brief in this Court, take the same position on appeal. They contend the trial court erred in concluding as a matter of law tha...
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Inspired by Night
L. E. MayOlivia Jones is a nerd. The computer programmer doesn't get out much, preferring to spend her time playing video games and watching movies. While she is successful and intelligent,...
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Face Value
Autumn Whitefield-Madrano“A fascinating look” (The Boston Globe) at how we think and talk about beauty in the twentyfirst centuryand the unexpected and often positive way that beauty shapes our lives.For d...
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Lost in Translation
S. L. ScottKandace Miller is a star student who stays on the straight and narrow path of her perfectly planned life. Olivier DeMarche always chooses the shortcut in life, wanting the ea...
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H. L. Scott v. Ingle Bros
Court of Criminal Appeals of TexasThe question before us is whether the parties had entered into a contract whereby Ingle Bros. Pacific, Inc., agreed to employ H. L. Scott. The trial court held that, as a matter of...
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Nymphomania
Kyoko ChurchWealthy businessman and owner of Draper Estates, Ewan Draper needs a wife to give him the respectability demanded by polite Boston society. He's drawn to the newest of his mill gir...
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Temptation
Douglas KennedyFrom the #1 internationally bestselling author of Five Days and The Blue Hour, “a racy pageturner” (London Daily Express) about a Hollywood screenwriter whose overnight success bri...
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Jealousy
S. L. ScottPART 2 of the From the Inside Out serial by New York Times Bestselling Author, S. L. Scott. Scorned Part 1 is now available. The story continues… We shared a love that...
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The Book Club
J. ManxAfter a oneoff raunchy encounter in Norway with another married couple, Joe and Helen have been keen to experience another since they returned home. The opportunity finally arrives...
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Scott Gifford v. Michael L. Geosling
Western District Court of Appeals of MissouriThis is an appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Sullivan County denying appellants' petition for recission of certain real estate deeds and for a permanent injunction. ...
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Hickman v. Fort Scott.
Supreme Court of the United StatesIn the original action upon the bonds held by Hickman, a jury having been waived by written stipulation of the parties, the Circuit Court proceeded to final judgment upon a special...
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Make Me An Offer
Isabella ShawLouisa Dane is going places: her model agency is due to get a cash injection of millions and she enjoys the nightly attentions of a smart and handsome lover. Basically, New York Ci...
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A Vamp About Town
Michelle KellyEver since former NYPD detective Nick Carter and 200yearold vampiress Ruby set up their private agency for preternatural crime, things have been heating up both at work and at play...
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Ice Commander
Roger Frank SelbyDeep space exploration might seem like a glamorous profession, but as Lieutenant Frank Carter knows all too well, it can be a lonely job which demands both discipline and instinct....
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Scott Paper Co. v. Marcalus Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of the United StatesIn this patent infringement suit the question is whether the assignor of a patent is estopped by virtue of his assignment to defend a suit for infringement of the assigned patent o...
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Punishment on the Fourth
Ralph Greco, Jr.An erotic short story with female domination and spanking and themes.The 4th Of July in the good ol' USA can be crazy fun: picnics; barbecues; cookouts; and lastly fireworks high i...