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Sherie Rene Scott (born 8 February 1969) is an American actress and singer who is currently playing Ursula in the Broadway musical, The Little Mermaid. She has appeared in numerous both Off Broadway and Broadway productions.

Scott was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of a nurse and a minister. She studied acting at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater under Sanford Meisner while working as a waitress. Her first role was in the 25th-anniversary production of Hair in 1993 at the United Nations.

On Broadway, she has starred in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, garnering nominations for a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award, and being named as a Drama League honoree. She created the role of Amneris in Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (2000), for which she won the Clarence Derwent Award. Other Broadway credits include as Sally Simpson in Tommy (1993), Marty in Grease (1995-96), Maureen in Rent (1997), and originating the role of Ursula in The Little Mermaid (2007).

Off-Broadway musicals include John Guare’s Landscape of the Body at the Signature Theatre, for which she received a 2006 Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award. Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, and the title role in Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical. Regionally, she has appeared in world premiere productions of Randy Newman's Faust (1995), where she met her future husband, Kurt Deutsch, and Kander and Ebb’s, Over and Over, a musical adaptation of The Skin of Our Teeth, for which Scott was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award.

Along with husband Kurt Deutsch, Scott co-founded Sh-K-Boom Records and Ghostlight Records, labels dedicated to preserving original cast albums and solo recordings by Broadway artists. In just six years, they have released over 40 albums, earning four Grammy Award nominations and a special Drama Desk Award. Their catalogue includes The Drowsy Chaperone, The Last Five Years", and Scott's critically acclaimed solo CD.

Scott also appeared in the 2003 film Marci X as Kirsten Blatt. Television credits include the roles of Dawn in The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery in 1998; and waitress Dori in My Guys in 1996.

She and her husband have a son and live in Putnam County, New York.

• Marci X ....Kirsten Blatt
• The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery ....Dawn

• The Who's Tommy ....Sally Simpson (Original Broadway Cast, CD)
• RENT ....Maureen
• Grease ....Marty
• Aida ....Amneris (Original Broadway Cast, CD)
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ....Christine Colgate (Original Broadway Cast, CD, Tony nomination)
• The Little Mermaid ....Ursula

• Randy Newman's Faust (The La Jolla Playhouse) ....Martha (Original Cast)
• Debbie Does Dallas (Off-Broadway) ....Debbie (Original Off-Broadway Cast, CD)
• The Last Five Years (Off-Broadway) ....Cathy (Original Off-Broadway Cast, CD)
• Landscape of the Body (Off-Broadway) ....Rosalie (Original Off-Broadway Revival Cast)

• Biography at BroadwayWorld website
• Biography at the Yahoo! Movies website
• Biography at TV.com website
• Sherie Rene Scott: UArts Show Music Article Summary by Alex Catarinella
• Profile from American Theatre Wing

• Sherie Rene Scott at the Internet Broadway Database
• Sherie Rene Scott at the Internet Movie Database
• Production: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, April 2005
• Sherie's Myspace
• Sh-K-Boom Records