Naomi Grace Scott is a British actress, singer, and songwriter, who starred as Megan in the British adaptation of the Disney Channel Italy Original Series Life Bites in 2008. However, Scott is most known for starring as Mohini "Mo" Banjaree in the 2011 Disney Channel Original Movie Lemonade Mouth.
She also played Jasmine in the 2019 live-action adaptation of Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin.
Outside of Disney, Scott starred as Escarlette Sepulveda in The 33 (2015), as Kimberly Hart/Pink Ranger in the 2017 Power Rangers remake, as Elena Houghlin in the 2019 Charlie's Angels film, and as the Grammy-winning pop star Skye Riley in the 2024 Smile 2 film.
As a singer, Scott has released two extended plays and seven singles. Her debut EP, titled Invisible Division, was released in 2014 and its following, titled Promises was released in 2016. Both extended plays produced one single each ("Motions" and "Lover's Lies", respectively). Two released singles: "Vows" and "Irrelevant", are scheduled to be featured in an upcoming EP titled Vows.
Roles
(Lemonade Mouth) (1)
(Lemonade Mouth) (2)
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Trivia
- Scott makes an appearance in the music video for the song "Hurricane" by her Lemonade Mouth co-star Bridgit Mendler. She and Mendler (and Hayley Kiyoko) are still good friends, and was a bridesmaid at Mendler's wedding in 2019.[1]
- Her first Disney movie was a Disney Channel Original Movie Lemonade Mouth and her second Disney movie was a theatrically-released movie Aladdin.
- Scott's casting as Jasmine in Aladdin attracted controversy, due to the fact that while the character is Arabic, Scott herself is of mixed British and Indian heritage.[2]
References
- ↑ "Mendler Is A Married Woman; Weds Griffin Cleverly Over The Weekend!". Just Jared (Oct 15, 2019).
- ↑ "Disney criticised for casting non-Arab actor as Princess Jasmine in Aladdin" (July 17, 2017). The Independent
External links
Naomi Scott on Wikipedia
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