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Jackson Robert Scott

American child actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ46600367 ↗
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Jackson Robert Scott (born September 18, 2008) is an American actor. He is known for portraying Bode Locke in the Netflix series Locke & Key (2020–2022) and Georgie Denbrough in the films It Chapter One (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019).

Early life

Scott was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He enrolled in his school's Mandarin Immersion Program, in which he learned to speak Mandarin Chinese. He is also a boy scout.

He was a part of the CGTV acting program where he learned many of his acting techniques. While at the CGTV program, he worked with actors from Nickelodeon and Disney, as well as Adrian R'Mante, the founder of CGTV. His favorite class was Improvisational Workshop.

He was discovered by a top agency sometime after his time with CGTV and began his start in auditioning and self-taping for top-tier television shows.

Career

Scott got his first role in 2015 on Criminal Minds, which is a prime-time American TV series. At that time, Scott was cast in Season 11's fourth episode, titled "Outlaw", as Cole Vasquez, this episode aired on October 21, 2015.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jackson Robert Scott” as american child actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2020, 2022, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-09-18. The account is most persuasive where Jackson, Robert and Scott can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american child actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q46600367. VIAF identifies the subject as 31156217930304740044. The Library of Congress control number is no2018012386. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008, 2020, 2022 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jackson Robert Scott” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.