L. Scott Caldwell
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Laverne Scott Caldwell is an American
actress known for her role as Rose on Lost
.
This Chicago native started her career in 1978 as a member of the famed Negro Ensemble Company, making her Broadway debut two years later in the Tony Award nominated play Home. She has starred in world premier and regional productions across the country, including works by Wole Soyinda, Athol Fugard, Neil Simon, and Regina Taylor. Caldwell earned a degree in Theater Arts and Communications from Loyola University Chicago
. She has an extensive background in theater, feature films, and television. Her film credits include Waiting to Exhale
, The Net, The Fugitive
, Like Dandelion Dust
, and Powder Blue
. In 2010 Caldwell played the lead role in the short film Lisa Trotter, directed by fellow Chicagoan Hawthorne James
. Caldwell had recurring roles on Judging Amy
, Lost
, The Secret Life of the American Teenager
, and Southland
. She has guest-starred in over fifty television series episodes and made for television movies including JAG
, Chicago Hope
, City of Angels and Promised Land
,. Her additional television credits include The Practice
, Any Day Now, Murder One
, The Pretender
, ER
, Nip/Tuck
, L.A. Law
, Ghost Whisperer
, Cold Case, Saving Grace
, State of Mind
, and The Cosby Show
. In 2003 she was a cast as a main character, Judge Rose Barnea, in the CBS series Queens Supreme
.
On Broadway
, Caldwell won a 1988 Tony Award
for her portrayal of Bertha Holly in Joe Turner's Come and Gone
. Her other Broadway credits include Proposals, A Month of Sundays and Home. She has also appeared off Broadway in About Heaven & Earth, Colored People's Time, Old Phantoms, A Season to Unravel, The Imprisonment of Obatala", and "Going To St. Ives.
Her most recent appearances have been in the television series Southland
and The Secret Life of the American Teenager
, and films Powder Blue
, Like Dandelion Dust
, and Gridiron Gang
. Caldwell is most widely known for her portrayal of Rose on Lost
. According to the Season 2 DVD featurettes, her husband was suffering health problems during the shooting of the first season, which inspired her character's story in the Rose/Bernard-centric episode, S.O.S..
While attending Hyde Park High School, Caldwell joined the drama club. Her class went to see a performance of A Day of Absence, featuring Douglas Turner Ward, one of the founders of The Negro Ensemble Company. It was the first time she saw professional black actors on stage.
After graduating from high school in 1967, Caldwell attended Northwestern University. Caldwell left the school 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.
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 Mr. 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 the Cort Theatre on Broadway 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. She also had small roles in film (Without A Trace
), and daytime television (All My Children
).
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 the August Wilson
play Joe Turner's Come and Gone
. She did not get the role she wanted. But the role of Bertha Holly was a history maker. Caldwell's performance earned her a 1988 Tony Award
. She thanked her mother, siblings, and son during her acceptance speech.
Soon after winning the Tony Caldwell moved to southern California to work in television and film. She is extremely busy, working in several cities in the US, Canada, and South Africa, and continues to work in theater. She returned to Broadway in 1997 as the lead in Neil Simon
's Proposals. The play was not very well accepted by audiences but Caldwell's performance was critically acclaimed. After Proposals closed Caldwell performed the role of Leah, Little Augie's sister, in the New York City Center's
Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert production of St. Louis Woman. In 2006 Caldwell made her Goodman Theatre
debut in Regina Taylor
's The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove. In 2011 she took on the monumental lead 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 in the play.
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.
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. As moderator she challenged her colleagues to maintain their art. In February 2010 she directed a staged reading of Standing On My Sisters' Shoulders for the Los Angeles chapter of Actors Equity Association.
During the Lost Finale interview with Jo Garfein of JOpinionated, Caldwell stated that she intentionally avoided meeting Sam Anderson, the actor who portrayed her husband Bernard. The scene in Collision when they meet on the beach really was the first time they saw each other. Caldwell also admitted that she does not watch her own work, did not watch Lost regularly, and doesn't have cable service. To catch up on the storyline she checked out the scripts from the Lost library. She was not allowed to leave the scripts in the hotel room and had to take them back to the set.
Nominations
"The first play my mother ever saw I was in." Chicago Tribune November 30, 1997
"I didn't have dance lessons or anything when I was growing up.... I didn't have background in the arts at all. I used to like to pretend when I was a kid, so I would hide in the closet and make up stories and pretend to be other people." Chicago Tribune November 30, 1997
"When you stop acting is when you feel it. On your day off, everything shuts down and you have to start all over again at the next performance.... There is nothing else quite like the high of live theater." The Plain Dealer December 14, 1997
"When you meet somebody that are in the final stages of their life, the other person, or the healthy person, is gonna do all they can to keep you living. The person that's going through it, ...after they have been fighting for so long, you just reach that fork in the road where you can keep going down that path of struggle. Or you can stand where you are, and accept where you are, and accept it as a blessing. And that's a very powerful place to be. It's good to let people know that there is life. There is life. There is life. There is life. That it doesn't stop you from being able to live. And it doesn't stop you from being able to love. And to find the love of your life, at the end of your life is an amazing thing. It's just a gift from God." Lost, Season Two On Location extras dvd, 2006
While working in the Ebony Repertory Theatre production of A Raisin in the Sun Caldwell said she had done the play "...enough times to play every character except Mama. I've played Ruth, and I've even played Travis in a high school production." LA Stage Times March 23, 2011
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actress known for her role as Rose on Lost
Lost (TV series)
Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
.
This Chicago native started her career in 1978 as a member of the famed Negro Ensemble Company, making her Broadway debut two years later in the Tony Award nominated play Home. She has starred in world premier and regional productions across the country, including works by Wole Soyinda, Athol Fugard, Neil Simon, and Regina Taylor. Caldwell earned a degree in Theater Arts and Communications from Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago is a private Jesuit research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1870 under the title St...
. She has an extensive background in theater, feature films, and television. Her film credits include Waiting to Exhale
Waiting to Exhale
Waiting to Exhale is a 1995 romance film starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett, directed by Forest Whitaker. The movie was adapted from the 1992 novel of the same name by Terry McMillan. Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, Dennis Haysbert, Michael Beach, Gregory Hines, Donald Faison and Mykelti...
, The Net, The Fugitive
The Fugitive (1993 film)
The Fugitive is a 1993 American thriller film based on the television series of the same name. The film was directed by Andrew Davis and stars Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. The film was one of the few movies associated with a television series to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best...
, Like Dandelion Dust
Like Dandelion Dust
Like Dandelion Dust is a 2009 drama film based on the novel by the same name by Karen Kingsbury. The film won 26 awards at 23 film festivals.- Plot :...
, and Powder Blue
Powder Blue (film)
Powder Blue is a 2009 drama film with an ensemble cast featuring several interconnected story arcs. It was written and directed by Timothy Linh Bui based on the 1997 novel Ponto de Partida by brazilian medium Chico Xavier, and features Patrick Swayze's last film appearance before his September 2009...
. In 2010 Caldwell played the lead role in the short film Lisa Trotter, directed by fellow Chicagoan Hawthorne James
Hawthorne James
Hawthorne James is an American actor and director, best known for his role as Big Red Davis in the 1991 film The Five Heartbeats. He is also known for his role as Sam, the injured bus driver, in Speed ....
. Caldwell had recurring roles on Judging Amy
Judging Amy
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly...
, Lost
Lost (TV series)
Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
, The Secret Life of the American Teenager
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
The Secret Life of the American Teenager is an American teen drama television series created by Brenda Hampton. It first aired on ABC Family on July 1, 2008. The show was renewed for a second season consisting of 24 episodes on February 9, 2009, which began airing on June 22, 2009...
, and Southland
Southland (TV series)
Southland is an American drama series created by writer Ann Biderman and produced by Warner Bros. Television. It premiered on NBC on April 9, 2009...
. She has guest-starred in over fifty television series episodes and made for television movies including JAG
JAG (TV series)
JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...
, Chicago Hope
Chicago Hope
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, City of Angels and Promised Land
Promised land
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,. Her additional television credits include The Practice
The Practice
The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. Running for eight seasons from 1997 to 2004, the show won the Emmy in 1998 and 1999 for Best Drama Series, and spawned the successful and lighter spin-off series Boston...
, Any Day Now, Murder One
Murder One (TV series)
Murder One is an American legal drama series that first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995. The series was created by Steven Bochco, Charles H. Eglee, and Channing Gibson.-Premise:...
, The Pretender
The Pretender (TV series)
The Pretender is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series starred Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a genius and former child prodigy with "the ability to become anyone he wants to be," i.e., to flawlessly impersonate anyone in virtually any line of work...
, ER
ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
, Nip/Tuck
Nip/Tuck
Nip/Tuck is an American drama series created by Ryan Murphy, which aired on FX in the United States. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a plastic surgery practice, and follows its founders, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy...
, L.A. Law
L.A. Law
L.A. Law is a US television legal drama that ran on NBC from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994. L.A. Law reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights,...
, Ghost Whisperer
Ghost Whisperer
Ghost Whisperer is an American television supernatural drama, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts...
, Cold Case, Saving Grace
Saving Grace (TV series)
Saving Grace is an American television crime drama series which premiered on TNT on July 23, 2007 and ran until June 21, 2010. The show stars Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter in her first television series, as well as Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, Laura San Giacomo, Bailey Chase, Bokeem Woodbine,...
, State of Mind
State of Mind (TV series)
State of Mind is a one-hour drama series created by novelist Amy Bloom. The series starred Lili Taylor as psychiatrist Anne Bellowes, who unexpectedly finds her husband cheating on her with their marriage counselor. The series deals with Bellowes and her relationship with her patients as well as...
, and The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992...
. In 2003 she was a cast as a main character, Judge Rose Barnea, in the CBS series Queens Supreme
Queens Supreme
Queens Supreme is an American courtroom dramedy television series which aired on CBS in January 2003. The series starred Oliver Platt in his first major television role as New York judge Jack Moran who, with his equally eccentric and colorful as colleagues, preside over court cases as the real-life...
.
On Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
, Caldwell won a 1988 Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
for her portrayal of Bertha Holly in Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by American playwright, August Wilson, the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, The Pittsburgh Cycle...
. Her other Broadway credits include Proposals, A Month of Sundays and Home. She has also appeared off Broadway in About Heaven & Earth, Colored People's Time, Old Phantoms, A Season to Unravel, The Imprisonment of Obatala", and "Going To St. Ives.
Her most recent appearances have been in the television series Southland
Southland (TV series)
Southland is an American drama series created by writer Ann Biderman and produced by Warner Bros. Television. It premiered on NBC on April 9, 2009...
and The Secret Life of the American Teenager
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
The Secret Life of the American Teenager is an American teen drama television series created by Brenda Hampton. It first aired on ABC Family on July 1, 2008. The show was renewed for a second season consisting of 24 episodes on February 9, 2009, which began airing on June 22, 2009...
, and films Powder Blue
Powder Blue (film)
Powder Blue is a 2009 drama film with an ensemble cast featuring several interconnected story arcs. It was written and directed by Timothy Linh Bui based on the 1997 novel Ponto de Partida by brazilian medium Chico Xavier, and features Patrick Swayze's last film appearance before his September 2009...
, Like Dandelion Dust
Like Dandelion Dust
Like Dandelion Dust is a 2009 drama film based on the novel by the same name by Karen Kingsbury. The film won 26 awards at 23 film festivals.- Plot :...
, and Gridiron Gang
Gridiron Gang
Gridiron Gang is a 2006 American film starring Dwayne Johnson, Xzibit, L. Scott Caldwell, and Kevin Dunn. It was filmed in California at Camp Kilpatrick, a Los Angeles County Probation Department facility. It is loosely based on the true story of the Kilpatrick Mustangs during the 1990 season...
. Caldwell is most widely known for her portrayal of Rose on Lost
Lost (TV series)
Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
. According to the Season 2 DVD featurettes, her husband was suffering health problems during the shooting of the first season, which inspired her character's story in the Rose/Bernard-centric episode, S.O.S..
Early life
Caldwell, the middle child in the family, was born Laverne Scott in Chicago, Illinois to working class parents. Her mother was a maid and her father was a chauffeur. Her mother eventually became a nurse. She grew up in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. When she was a student in a high enrollment elementary school Caldwell 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. It was there that her love of film was born. At that early age she did not realize she wanted to be an actress, but she did know that she wanted to be like Bette Davis or Loretta Young.While attending Hyde Park High School, Caldwell joined the drama club. Her class went to see a performance of A Day of Absence, featuring Douglas Turner Ward, one of the founders of The Negro Ensemble Company. It was the first time she saw professional black actors on stage.
After graduating from high school in 1967, Caldwell attended Northwestern University. Caldwell left the school 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 did not enjoy that profession so she worked a year for the Chicago Council on Fine Arts as an artist-in-residence. She also 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
Uta Hagen
Uta Thyra Hagen was a German-born American actress and drama teacher. She originated the role of Martha in the 1963 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee...
'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 Mr. 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
Home
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, by Samm Art Williams, took her to the Cort Theatre on Broadway in 1980. The play was critically acclaimed and earned a Tony Award nomination for Charles Brown
Charles Brown
Charlie Brown is the principal character in the comic strip Peanuts.Charlie or Charles Brown may also refer to:-Athletes:* Charlie Brown from Dumfries who played for home town club Queen of the South...
. After Home closed Caldwell worked in several regional theater productions including Boesman and Lena at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, and A Raisin In The Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes...
at Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York. She also had small roles in film (Without A Trace
Without a Trace
Without a Trace is an American television drama which originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series was set in New York City and concerned a fictitious FBI Missing Persons Unit.-Premise:...
), and daytime television (All My Children
All My Children
All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
).
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 the August Wilson
August Wilson
August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama...
play Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by American playwright, August Wilson, the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, The Pittsburgh Cycle...
. She did not get the role she wanted. But the role of Bertha Holly was a history maker. Caldwell's performance earned her a 1988 Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
. She thanked her mother, siblings, and son during her acceptance speech.
Soon after winning the Tony Caldwell moved to southern California to work in television and film. She is extremely busy, working in several cities in the US, Canada, and South Africa, and continues to work in theater. She returned to Broadway in 1997 as the lead in Neil Simon
Neil Simon
Neil Simon is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has written numerous Broadway plays, including Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and The Odd Couple. He won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Lost In Yonkers. He has written the screenplays for several of his plays that...
's Proposals. The play was not very well accepted by audiences but Caldwell's performance was critically acclaimed. After Proposals closed Caldwell performed the role of Leah, Little Augie's sister, in the New York City Center's
New York City Center
New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert production of St. Louis Woman. In 2006 Caldwell made her Goodman Theatre
Goodman Theatre
The Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop. A major part of Chicago theatre, it is the city's oldest currently active nonprofit theater organization...
debut in Regina Taylor
Regina Taylor
Regina Taylor is an American actress and playwright. She has won several awards throughout her career, including a Golden Globe Award and NAACP Image Award.-Biography:...
's The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove. In 2011 she took on the monumental lead role of Lena Younger in the Ebony Repertory Theatre production of the Lorraine Hansberry classic A Raisin In The Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes...
. The play was directed by Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashād is an American Tony Award winning actress and singer, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show....
. Caldwell, along with the entire cast, was nominated for the LA Stage Alliance 2011 Ovation Award for her work in the play.
Caldwell is an active member of Unite For Strength, the Screen Actors Guild
Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...
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.
Personal life
In her early twenties Laverne Scott got married and had son, Ominara. She was divorced in the early 1980s, and was married again in 2004 to artist/photographer/director Dasal Banks. Banks suffered from cancer and died in 2005. He was the six-foot-five black man Caldwell envisioned as her Lost husband, Bernard, before she was informed who would portray him.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. As moderator she challenged her colleagues to maintain their art. In February 2010 she directed a staged reading of Standing On My Sisters' Shoulders for the Los Angeles chapter of Actors Equity Association.
During the Lost Finale interview with Jo Garfein of JOpinionated, Caldwell stated that she intentionally avoided meeting Sam Anderson, the actor who portrayed her husband Bernard. The scene in Collision when they meet on the beach really was the first time they saw each other. Caldwell also admitted that she does not watch her own work, did not watch Lost regularly, and doesn't have cable service. To catch up on the storyline she checked out the scripts from the Lost library. She was not allowed to leave the scripts in the hotel room and had to take them back to the set.
Television
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(1999) Ester - Intimate Betrayal (1999) Detective Sheila Monroe
- Graham's Diner (1999) Verna
- Any Day Now (1998) Mrs. Opal Lee
- Tell Me No Secrets (1997) judge
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(1997) Anna Mae Brown - Dying To Be Perfect (1996) Dr. Wallace
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(1996) Gwen Porter
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- Bringing Up Jack (1995) Dr. Davis
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- Melrose Place (1994) Judge Maxine Marco
- Lois & Clark (1993) Carol Sherman
- For The Love Of My Child (1993) Rita Wilson
- Darkness Before Dawn (1993) nurse
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(1991) Emily Warner - Doogie Howser (1990) Mrs. Alexander
- Dangerous Passion (1990) Ruby
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(1988) Althea Watkins - Cosby Show (1988) Elizabeth
- The File on Jill Hatch (1983)
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Theatre
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(2011) Lena Younger - Reverse Transcription Staged reading (2009) Ottoline
- The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove (2006) Sarah Breedlove (Madam C.J. Walker)
- Going To St. Ives (2000, 2003 (radio broadcast and recording), 2005) May N'Kame
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Staged reading (2002) - Sorrows and Rejoicings (2001) Marta Barends
- Landlocked (1998) Reporter/Camilla
- St. Louis Woman (1998) Leah
- Proposals (1997) Clemma Diggins
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(1991) Berniece - From The Mississippi Delta (1990) Miss Rosebud/Bro. Pastor
- Joe Turner's Come and GoneJoe Turner's Come and GoneJoe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by American playwright, August Wilson, the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, The Pittsburgh Cycle...
(1987–1988) Bertha Holly - A Month Of Sundays (1987) understudy Mrs. Baker
- Elegies For The Fallen Staged reading (1986)
- A Play Of Giants (1984) Ambassador
- About Heaven & Earth (1983) Black Woman (The Redeemer)/Raimy (Nightline)
- A Raisin In The SunA Raisin in the SunA Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes...
(1982) Ruth Younger - Colored Peoples Time (1982) Cahterine/Addie/Nadine/Ida
- Boesman and Lena (1982) Lena
- Home (1980–1981). Pattie Mae Wells / Woman One. Broadway debut.
- A Season To Unravel (1979) Afrodite
- Plays From Africa - Everyman & The Imprisonment of Obatala (1979)
- Old Phantoms (1979) Ruth
- Daughters Of The Mock (1978) Gail
- The Thesmophoriazousae (1977) Sosie (Chicago - Court Theatre)
- The Other Cinderella (1975) (Chicago - Club Misty)
- No Place To Be Somebody (1974) Cora Beasley (Loyola University student production)
- A Raisin In The SunA Raisin in the SunA Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes...
Travis Younger (Hyde Park High School student production)
Film
- The Lamp (2011) Miss Esther
- Lisa Trotter (2010) Lisa Trotter
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(2006) Bobbi Porter - Dragonfly (2002) nurse
- Mystery Alaska (1999) Judge McGibbons
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(1995) Hattie Mae Parsons - The Net (1995) Court appointed attorney
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(1991) Homeless woman - Up Against The Wall (1991) Sandy Wilkes
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(1983) Janet Smith
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- Grapevine (1992) Calvin's mother - The United Negro College FundUnited Negro College FundThe United Negro College Fund is an American philanthropic organization that fundraises college tuition money for black students and general scholarship funds for 39 private historically black colleges and universities. The UNCF was incorporated on April 25, 1944 by Frederick D. Patterson , Mary...
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Awards and nominations
Awards- 2006 BTAA Award for Best leading actress in a play – The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove
- 2005 Obie Award for Performance in a play – Going To St. Ives
- 1998 Helen Hayes Award for Supporting actress in a non-resident production – Proposals
- 1997 Drama-Logue Award for Performance in a play – Proposals
- 1990 Drama-Logue Award for Ensemble performance – From The Mississippi Delta
- 1988 Tony Award for Featured actress in a play – Joe Turner's Come & Gone
Nominations
- 2011 Ovation Award for Best Acting Ensemble in a Play – A Raisin In The SunA Raisin in the SunA Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes...
- 2007 Gemini Award (Canadian television) for Best actress in a guest performance – Jozi-HJozi-HJozi-H is a one-hour hospital drama series set in Johannesburg, South Africa, set in the Johannesburg General Hospital. It is a Canada-South Africa co-production. It first aired in Canada on CBC Television on 13 October 2006, and in South Africa on SABC3 in 2007.Producers are Morula Pictures and...
- 2005 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding actress in a play – Going To St. Ives
- 1998 FANY (FAns of NY Theatre) Award for Outstanding actress in a play – Proposals
Trivia
- Singing range - Alto (Theater: Home, St. Louis Woman; Television: Any Day Now)
- Zodiac sign - Aries
- Hobbies - Cooking, writing, painting, jazz
- Favorite film - Imitation of LifeImitation of Life (1959 film)Imitation of Life is a 1959 American film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal Pictures, starring Lana Turner and John Gavin and features Sandra Dee, Dan O'Herlihy, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda and Juanita Moore as Annie Johnson. Gospel music star Mahalia Jackson...
- Right-handed
Quotes
"I didn't say to myself 'I want to be an actress' or anything like that. But I loved film, and I loved what they [Bette Davis & Loretta Young] did." St. Louis Post-Dispatch July 1, 1988"The first play my mother ever saw I was in." Chicago Tribune November 30, 1997
"I didn't have dance lessons or anything when I was growing up.... I didn't have background in the arts at all. I used to like to pretend when I was a kid, so I would hide in the closet and make up stories and pretend to be other people." Chicago Tribune November 30, 1997
"When you stop acting is when you feel it. On your day off, everything shuts down and you have to start all over again at the next performance.... There is nothing else quite like the high of live theater." The Plain Dealer December 14, 1997
"When you meet somebody that are in the final stages of their life, the other person, or the healthy person, is gonna do all they can to keep you living. The person that's going through it, ...after they have been fighting for so long, you just reach that fork in the road where you can keep going down that path of struggle. Or you can stand where you are, and accept where you are, and accept it as a blessing. And that's a very powerful place to be. It's good to let people know that there is life. There is life. There is life. There is life. That it doesn't stop you from being able to live. And it doesn't stop you from being able to love. And to find the love of your life, at the end of your life is an amazing thing. It's just a gift from God." Lost, Season Two On Location extras dvd, 2006
While working in the Ebony Repertory Theatre production of A Raisin in the Sun Caldwell said she had done the play "...enough times to play every character except Mama. I've played Ruth, and I've even played Travis in a high school production." LA Stage Times March 23, 2011
Further Reading
- Chicago DefenderChicago DefenderThe Chicago Defender is a Chicago based newspaper founded in 1905 by an African American for primarily African American readers.In just three years from 1919–1922 the Defender also attracted the writing talents of Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks....
"Loyola Opens Season With Versatile Seasoned Cast", October 5, 1974 p. A5 - Chicago Defender "Other Cinderella Premieres at Club Misty", August 7, 1975 p. 15
- Kuchwara, MichaelMichael KuchwaraMichael Charlies Kuchwara was an American theater critic, columnist and journalist. Kuchwara worked as both a critic and journalist for the Associated Press for more than from 1984 until 2010, writing pieces that were read worldwide...
St. Louis Post-DispatchSt. Louis Post-DispatchThe St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...
Everyday Magazine "Tony Winner Knew It In Her Heart", July 1, 1988 p. 8F - Weiss, Hedy Chicago Sun-TimesChicago Sun-TimesThe Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...
, July 14, 1988 p. 39 - Mitchell, Ophelia DeVore The Columbus Times "Tony Award Winning Actress Puts Her Philosophy of Enriching Others' Lives To Practice" vol. XXVII issue 35, August 28, 1988 p.A1
- Jackson, Caroline Black Masks "L. Scott Caldwell: Laughter in One Hand; The Tony in the Other" vol. 4 issue 9, August 31, 1988 p. 4
- Bogle, Donald Black Arts Annual 1987-1988 1989
- Hay, Samuel A. African American Theatre - An Historical And Critical Analysis, 1994 pgs. 142, 146, 158, 159, 161, 169
- Isherwood, Charles VarietyVariety (magazine)Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
, "Proposals" July 26, 1997 - Flatow, Sheryl PlaybillPlaybillPlaybill is a monthly U.S. magazine for theatregoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most Playbills are printed for particular shows to be distributed at the door...
, "Neil Simon Tells Love Stories in Proposals" November 18, 1997 - Kilian, Michael Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThe Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
, "Serious Simon - Play Has Its Critics, But Its Leading Actresses Find Acclaim" November 30, 1997 Arts & Entertainment p. 10 - Kuchwara, MichaelMichael KuchwaraMichael Charlies Kuchwara was an American theater critic, columnist and journalist. Kuchwara worked as both a critic and journalist for the Associated Press for more than from 1984 until 2010, writing pieces that were read worldwide...
The Plain Dealer "Sweet Role Entices Actress to Simon Play: Maid A Major Role in Proposals", December 14, 1997 Arts section p. 101 - Oldenburg, Ann USA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
"Love Is No Longer Color-coded On TV", December 20, 2005 - Pietrusiak, Leah Time Out Chicago "5 Minutes With L. Scott Caldwell", June 22–28, 2006
- Woulfe, Molly The Times of Northwest IndianaThe Times of Northwest IndianaThe Times of Northwest Indiana is a daily newspaper headquartered in Munster, Indiana. The Times is the second largest of Indiana's 76 daily newspapers, The Indianapolis Star being the largest...
"Lost Actress Recaps Life on the Island", June 30, 2006 - Lost: The Official Magazine "By The Fire: L. Scott Caldwell & Sam Anderson", Issue #5 July/August 2006 p. 30
- Vaughn, Kenya St. Louis AmericanSt. Louis AmericanThe St. Louis American is a weekly newspaper serving the African-American community of St. Louis, Missouri. The first issue appeared in March 1928. In 1930 the newspaper started a "Buy Where You Can Work" campaign. Donald Suggs along with two other investors purchased majority shares in the...
"Black Rep Goes Beyond August Wilson", March 28, 2007 - Hill, Anthony D. Historical Dictionary of African American Theater, 2009 p. 81
- Cairns, Bryan Lost The Official Magazine "By The Fire: Revolution Resolution", Issue #24 2009 Yearbook Sep/Oct 2009 p. 70
- Donloe, Darlene LA Stage Times "Phylicia Rashad Takes the Direct Approach", March 23, 2011