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Naomi Scott

British actress and singer (born 1993)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ254894
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Naomi Grace Scott (born 6 May 1993) is an English actress and singer. She received recognition for starring in the musical television film Lemonade Mouth (2011) and performing on its eponymous soundtrack. She also starred in the science fiction series Terra Nova (2011) and the superhero film Power Rangers (2017).

Scott gained wide attention in 2019 for leading the action comedy film Charlie's Angels and portraying Jasmine in the fantasy film Aladdin. After a brief hiatus from acting, she starred in the Netflix miniseries Anatomy of a Scandal (2022) and the horror film Smile 2 (2024).

Scott began her music career contributing to the soundtrack of Lemonade Mouth in 2011, it contained the song "She's So Gone" which later went on to be certified platinum in the US, and "Breakthrough" which entered the Billboard Hot 100 charts. She released two extended plays (EPs), Invisible Division in 2014 and Promises in 2016. Her song "Speechless" from the Aladdin soundtrack became her first song to be certified platinum in the US and was commercially successful. In 2024, she portrayed the fictional popstar Skye Riley in Smile 2 and released The Skye Riley EP. Her critically-acclaimed debut studio album, F.I.G, was released in 2026.

Early life

Naomi Scott was born on 6 May 1993 in Hounslow, London, to a British father Christopher Scott and an Indian origin British mother Usha (née Joshi); they married in 1984.

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“Naomi Scott” enters the record as british actress and singer (born 1993). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Naomi, Scott and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2011, 2017, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-05-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Naomi, Scott and British.
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“Naomi Scott” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Naomi, Scott and British provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q254894. VIAF identifies the subject as 47153530890048700720. The Library of Congress control number is no2011134247. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2011, 2017 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from Naomi 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.