Philippa Scott born November 10 1935 is an American actress who has appeared in film and television since the 1950s Scott was born in Los Angeles California She is the daughter of actress Laura Straub and screenwriter Allan Scott an uncle was the blacklisted screenwriter Adrian Scott Scott married Lee Rich a founding partner of Lorimar Productions in 1964 They had two children together before they divorced in 1983 though they maintained a friendship until he died in 2012 In the 1970s along with steady work acting in television productions Scott was a student at California State Polytechnic University Pomona where she pursued a degree in landscape architecture By the 1990s Scott had become active in human rights work such as supporting the Commission of Experts formed under United Nations Security Council Resolution 780 in its research of the widespread violations of international humanitarian law committed during the Bosnian genocide