Scott began acting with the comedy film Beethoven's Big Break (2008), and thereafter released her debut extended play New Girl in Town (2009).

Her subsequent film roles have consisted of independent features, such as the neo-noir Small Town Crime (2017), the biopic Beautiful Boy (2018), the high-school drama Good Girls Get High (2018) and the thriller Mary (2019).

[12] In 2013, Scott was a guest star on the fifteenth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Clare Wilson.

In 2015, Scott appeared as the daughter of Pierce Brosnan and Anna Friel, in crime thriller film I.T.

[20] In August 2016, it was announced that Scott would play the lead role in the independent sci-fi feature film At First Light (2018), directed by Jason Stone.

[21][22] In February 2021, Scott appeared as the main character Sara Cody in the Lifetime movie Girl In The Basement, based on the infamous Fritzl kidnapping case.

[23] Scott starred alongside Isabelle Fuhrman in the 2021 folk horror film The Last Thing Mary Saw directed by Edoardo Vitaletti.