Kathryn Leigh Scott

Kathryn Leigh Scott is an author/actress.

Her novels: September Girl (2019); Jinxed (2015); Down and Out in Beverly Heels (2013); Dark Passages (2012)

Recent nonfiction: Last Dance at the Savoy (2016); Now With You, Now Without (2017)

Kathryn has appeared in Blacklist with James Spader (2019); Woody Allen's A Rainy Day in New York (2019), soon-to-be-released The Eleventh Green (2019) with Campbell Scott, and Three Christs with Richard Gere and Juliana Margulies. She's also appeared in Hallmark Channel's Broadcasting Christmas (2016), Lifetime's A Wedding to Die For (2017), and has a recurring role as George Segal's girlfriend Miriam on The Goldbergs.

She wrote Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood (2012), and appeared in a cameo role in the John

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