Biography
Andrew Scott (born 21 October 1976) is an Irish actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, his accolades include a British Academy Television Award, Silver Bear Berlin International Film Festival, and two Laurence Olivier Awards, along with nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
Scott first came to prominence portraying James Moriarty in the BBC series Sherlock (2010–2017), for which he won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Supporting Actor. His role as the priest in the second series of Fleabag (2019) garnered him wider recognition. It earned him the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He is also known for his roles in the films Pride (2014), Spectre (2015), and 1917 (2019). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his starring role in the romantic drama film All of Us Strangers (2023). In 2024, he starred as Tom Ripley in the thriller series Ripley, for which he received Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Award nominations as well as a Peabody Award.
On stage, Scott played the lead role of Garry Essendine in a 2019 production of Present Laughter at The Old Vic, for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. He also won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre in 2005 for his role in A Girl in a Car with a Man at the Royal Court Theatre.
Filmography (93)
Pressure
2026
A Place in Hell
2026
Back in Action
2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
Blue Moon
2025
People Watching
2025
Too Much
2025
National Theatre Live: Vanya
2024
On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers
2024
Quintessentially Irish
2024
RIPLEY
2024
All of Us Strangers
2023
An Audience with Kylie
2023
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
Catherine Called Birdy
2022
Oslo
2021
Secret Safari: Into the Wild
2021
The Pursuit of Love
2021
Cognition
2020
Three Kings
2020
1917
2019
National Theatre Live: Present Laughter
2019
His Dark Materials
2019
Modern Love
2019
A Dark Place
2018
The Delinquent Season
2018
King Lear
2018
Hamlet
2018
Handsome Devil
2017
School of Roars
2017
Earth's Seasonal Secrets
2017
Swallows and Amazons
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
This Beautiful Fantastic
2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
Denial
2016
The Hope Rooms
2016
Fleabag
2016
Victor Frankenstein
2015
Spectre
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Locke
2014
Pride
2014
Unlocking Sherlock
2014
Jimmy's Hall
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Stag
2013
Legacy
2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
Dates
2013
Sea Wall
2012
The Scapegoat
2012
Blackout
2012
The Town
2012
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012
The Hollow Crown
2012
Chasing Cotards
2011
Black Mirror
2011
Anton Chekhov's The Duel
2010
Silent Things
2010
Lennon Naked
2010
Sherlock
2010
Garrow's Law
2009
Little White Lie
2008
John Adams
2008
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Quatermass Experiment
2005
The Comeback
2005
My Life in Film
2004
Dead Bodies
2003
Killing Hitler
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Foyle's War
2002
Band of Brothers
2001
Nora
2000
Longitude
2000
Longitude
2000
Sweety Barrett
1999
Miracle at Midnight
1998
Saving Private Ryan
1998
The American
1998
Drinking Crude
1997
Korea
1996
The Love She Sought
1990
Jeopardy!
1984
Horizon
1964
The Late Late Show
1962
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Heart of Darkness
Elsinore
Fonda
Walk the Blue Fields
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