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I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

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Jill Scott
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 4
Actor
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Philadelphia
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