Sue Scott is an American actress and character voice actor (AFTRA/SAG/AEA) in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. She is best known for her work as a radio comedy actor on Garrison Keillor's public radio show, A Prairie Home Companion and for her work as a voice-over talent in radio and television commercials.
She has appeared in productions at the Great American History Theatre, Nautilus Music-Theater, Mixed Blood Theatre, The Minnesota Festival Theater, Illusion Theater, and Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop. In 1992 she joined the cast of A Prairie Home Companion. She has also appeared in films and television.
While a theater major at the University of Arizona, Scott performed in summer stock in Garrison, Iowa. Later she studied at The Second City in Chicago and acted at the Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis. That led to opportunities in local theater and advertising.
Sue Scott plays "Donna, the Makeup Lady" in A Prairie Home Companion the movie based on a screenplay by Garrison Keillor and filmed by Robert Altman at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota during the summer of 2005. The film was released on June 9, 2006.