L. Scott Caldwell - Personal Life

Personal Life

In her early twenties Laverne Scott married John Caldwell and had a son, Ominara. She was divorced in the early 1980s, and was married again (on her birthday) in 2004 to artist/photographer/director Dasal Banks. Banks suffered from cancer and died in May 2005. He was the six-foot-five black man Caldwell envisioned as her Lost husband, Bernard, before she was informed who would portray him.

Caldwell gives lectures and appears on panels concerning African American actors. In 2007, she participated in tributes to August Wilson at Goodman Theatre in conjunction with Congo Square Theatre Company in Chicago, and at St. Louis Black Repertory Company. In June 2008, she participated in the NAACP Theatre Awards Festival Actors on Acting panel. In June 2009, Caldwell moderated a panel of actors, directors, and casting directors discussing African American Images in Hollywood. As moderator, she challenged her colleagues to maintain their art. In February 2010, she directed a staged reading of Standing On My Sisters' Shoulders for the Los Angeles chapter of Actors Equity Association.

During the Lost Finale interview with Jo Garfein of JOpinionated, Caldwell stated that she intentionally avoided meeting Sam Anderson, the actor who portrayed her husband Bernard. It was believed that the scene in Collision when they meet on the beach really was the first time they saw each other. During another interview with Ms. Garfein (at the Cancer Gets LOST webcast fundraiser), Caldwell said she actually met Anderson at the airport in Hawaii and had to resort to "oldfashoined acting" when filming the reunion scene on the beach. Caldwell has also admitted that she does not watch her own work, did not watch Lost regularly, and doesn't have cable service. To catch up on the storyline, she checked out the scripts from the Lost library. She was not allowed to leave the scripts in the hotel room and had to take them back to the set.