Thora Janette Scott (born 14 December 1938) is an English actress. She was born in Morecambe, Lancashire. She is the daughter of actors Jimmy Scott and Thora Hird. She started her acting career as a child actress known as Janette Scott, and was briefly (along with Jennifer Gay) one of the so-called "Children's Announcers" providing continuity links for the BBC's children's TV programmes from the Lime Grove Studios in the early 1950s. She became a popular leading lady, one of her best-known roles being April Smith in the 1960 film School for Scoundrels, based on the "One-upmanship" books by Stephen Potter, in which Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas competed for her attention. Scott wrote her autobiography at the age of 14.
Although she is credited in the cast-list of "How To Lose Friends And Alienate People", Ms. Scott did not, in fact, return to movie-acting for this film. The character she plays - the deceased mother of the Simon Pegg character - is seen only in brief flashbacks as a very young woman, in what are actually extracts from her 1950s film, "Now And Forever".
With the death of Anne Francis on January 2, 2011, she is the last surviving actor mentioned in the song "Science Fiction/Double Feature" in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
Mentioned in the opening title song of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) in reference to her appearance in The Day of the Triffids (1962): "And I really got hot When I saw Janette Scott fight a triffid that spits poison and kills."
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