Editing Jean Smart (section)

==Early life and education ==
Smart was born and raised in [[Seattle|Seattle, Washington]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20060313/jeansmart13/seattle-native-jean-smart-happily-back-in-the-tv-grind-for-a-stint-on-24|work=The Seattle Times|title=Seattle native Jean Smart happily back in the TV grind for a stint on "24"|author=Krug, Kurt Anthony|date=March 13, 2006|access-date=December 27, 2016|archive-date=February 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202081556/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20060313&slug=jeansmart13|url-status=live}}</ref> the daughter of Kathleen Marie "Kay" (Sanders) and Douglas Alexander Smart, a teacher.<ref name=yahoobio/><ref>Stated on ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (U.S. TV series)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]'', June 18, 2018</ref> She is the second of four children. Smart was diagnosed with [[type 1 diabetes]] when she was 13 years old.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/05/10/against-the-odds-4/|work=The Chicago Tribune|title=Against The Odds|author=Bandler, Michael J.|date=May 10, 1992|access-date=January 22, 2017}}</ref> Her father was a first-generation Scottish-American.<ref name=wdy1>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvinsider.com/693813/who-do-you-think-you-are-season-finale-jean-smart/|title='Who Do You Think You Are?' Season Finale: Jean Smart Discovers Family From 1635|first=Ileane|last=Rudolph|website=[[TV Insider]]|date=June 17, 2018 |access-date=3 May 2021}}</ref> On Season 10 of the television show ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (U.S. TV series)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]'', Smart discovered she is a maternal descendant of [[Dorcas Hoar]], one of the last women convicted of witchcraft during the [[Salem witch trials]].<ref name=wdy1/>

She is a 1969 graduate of [[Ballard High School (Seattle)|Ballard High School]] in Seattle; it was there that she gained an interest in acting in the drama program. She graduated from the [[University of Washington]] Professional Actors Training Program with a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]].<ref name="yahoobio">{{cite web|title=Jean Smart – Biography|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/person/jean-smart/biography.html|work=[[Yahoo! Movies]]|access-date=16 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003053223/https://movies.yahoo.com/person/jean-smart/biography.html|archive-date=2012-10-03}}</ref>