The daughter of John and Maxine Scott, she settled down in Neosho, Missouri, where she graduated from Neosho High School in 1949. She then went to New York and attended Hunter College.
Her initial experience on stage came when she traveled with a tent show in Missouri. On Broadway she portrayed Susan Dennison in The Wooden Dish (1955) and Rachel Brown in Inherit the Wind (1955–57).
Scott made her motion picture debut in William Castle's Macabre (1958). During production of Macabre in 1957, she met Gene Lesser, and they were married a few months later.

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