- Born
- Birth nameRobia Brett LaMorte
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Robia began her professional career in Hollywood as a dancer at the age of sixteen. She danced in numerous music videos before traveling the world with Prince starring as "Pearl" in his international tour Diamonds and Pearls. She also graced the album's cover and performed in multiple videos from the album. When the tour ended, Robia began focusing on her acting career. She appeared in over fifty national commercials and various popular television shows such as Beverly Hills, 90210 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Shortly after completing her three season stint on Buffy, Robia left a thriving career in entertainment to pursue Christian ministry. For the last fifteen years, Robia has traveled extensively throughout the US and internationally as a Christian speaker and teacher. She is the author of the book Counterfeit Comforts; Freedom from the Imposters that Keep You from True Peace, Purpose, and Passion, which can be found on her website: robiascott.com and on Amazon. After a fifteen year hiatus from acting, in a surprising turn of events, Robia is back on screen in a starring role in the newly released feature film, Unplanned. Robia lives in Southern California with her husband, James, and their daughter, Gemma.- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous
- Robia Scott, maiden name LaMorte, was born in Queens, New York and grew up in the Florida Keys. At the age of twelve she moved with her family to Los Angeles, California.
Soon thereafter she saw the movie Flashdance (1983), and her life was forever changed. She immediately began to pursue a career as a dancer and began taking jazz, ballet and tap classes after school.
Robia was accepted to attend The Los Angeles County High School For The Arts as a dance major their first year in operation in Los Angeles. She left the school after one year to fulfill a full dance scholarship at the prestigious Dupree Dance Academy in Hollywood.
At the age of sixteen Robia began to work professionally. Her first job was the music video "Shake Your Love" by Debbie Gibson. You can see her looking very "Flashdance-esque" with her big 80s, ala Jennifer Beals permed hair!
Robia went on to appear in more than thirty music videos before Prince pursued her to play the role of "Pearl" on his hit album "Diamonds & Pearls."
She toured Europe with Prince and The Pet Shop Boys and also traveled extensively doing dance fashion shows with companies such as Reebok, Puma and Adidas.
At the age of twenty-two, Robia hung up her dance shoes and retired. She decided the next logical move would be acting. She began by doing television commercials before landing her first role as Jason Priestley's girlfriend on Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990).
She went on to guest star on shows like The Sentinel (1996), The Pretender (1996) and Time of Your Life (1999), before she was hired to play "Jenny Calendar" on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997).
After three seasons on "Buffy", Robia recurred on the WB show Rescue 77 (1999) and filmed several independent films such as 12 Stops on the Road to Nowhere (1999) and _Pomegranate (2001)_.
Robia is back on the big screen in the major motion picture, Unplanned. Unplanned is based on the true story of Abby Johnson and is in theaters now.- IMDb mini biography by: David W. Crenshaw (official bio provided with permission)
- SpouseJames Proctor(May 22, 2010 - present) (1 child)
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Spent several years traveling around the world as a dancer on tour with Prince.
- An accomplished dancer, she has appeared in over thirty music videos. The first music video she appeared in was for Debbie Gibson's single "Shake Your Love".
- Studied at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts before receiving a full scholarship to study dance at the Dupree Dance Academy in Hollywood. She began dancing at the age of 12 after becoming inspired by the film Flashdance (1983), and was a professional dancer by the age of 16.
- Following the death of her character Jenny Calendar on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), she returned for two more episodes to play other characters manifesting themselves as Jenny. The first was in the season 2 finale, Becoming: Part 2 (1998), when Drusilla assumes the form of Jenny in order to fool Giles into revealing critical information. Her final appearance was in the season 3 episode Amends (1998), when the First Evil takes the form of Jenny, as well as some of Angel's other victims, in order to trick him into murdering Buffy.
- When she was asked to return to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) for the season 3 episode Amends (1998), she agreed before even reading the script. However, she was unaware that as her character was being used as a pawn by the First Evil, she would essentially be playing a character who was the equivalent of Satan. As a devout Christian, she felt very uncomfortable with this, and though she honored her contract, she does not believe it was her best performance. She has since said that she would have been willing to return to the series again for further episodes, but she was never approached.
- (Regarding her best known role as Jenny Calendar on Buffy the Vampire Slayer): Jenny is such a great role! It's wonderful to play a character who is smart, sexy and funny. Really good writing is so rare and Buffy just gets it all right. It's the kind of role I've dreamed of since I started my career.
- I started working professionally at 16 and was blessed to have a great career. I was traveling around the world and working with amazing people when I was far too young to really appreciate it! Working with Prince was the icing on the cake. I realized that I had achieved most of what there was to achieve as a dancer and wanted to leave dance at the top of my game. Acting seemed like the next logical step.
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