Andrew Scott (actor)
Andrew Scott | |
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| Born | October 21, 1976 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Andrew Scott (born October 21, 1976) is an Irish film, television, and stage actor. He received the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs production of A Girl in a Car with a Man, and an IFTA award for the film Dead Bodies. Scott's notable television roles have included Paul McCartney in the BBC television drama Lennon Naked and arch-villain Jim Moriarty in Sherlock, for which he was awarded the 2012 British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Early life
Andrew Scott was born in Dublin to Nora and Jim Scott. His father worked in an employment agency and his mother taught art at a secondary school. He has two sisters.
Whilst growing up Andrew attended Gonzaga College, on the south side of Dublin. Whilst there he took part in youth theatre and was in two commercials for Irish television. At only seventeen he was chosen for a starring role in his first film, Korea.
Career
Scott dropped out of his Drama degree at Trinity College, Dublin to join Dublin’s famous Abbey Theatre.[1] He made his film debut aged seventeen as the young lead in acclaimed Irish film Korea.
After filming a small part in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, he worked with film and theatre director Karel Reisz in a Gate Theatre production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night for which he won Actor of the Year at the Independent/Spirit of Life Awards and received an Irish Times Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Scott appeared in the film Nora, with Ewan McGregor, and in a television adaptation of Henry James’s The American, alongside Diana Rigg and Matthew Modine, before making his London theatre debut in Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol with Brian Cox at the Royal Court Theatre. He was then cast in the BAFTA winning drama Longitude, opposite Michael Gambon, and the multi-award winning HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. Scott has described the working atmosphere on Band of Brothers as "awful".[2]
In 2004 he was named one of European Film Promotions' Shooting Stars. After starring in My Life in Film for the BBC, he received his first Olivier award for his role in A Girl in a Car with a Man at The Royal Court, and the Theatregoers' Choice Award for his performance in the National Theatre’s Aristocrats. He then created the roles of the twin brothers in the original Royal Court production of Christopher Shinn’s Dying City,[3] which was later nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.[4] In 2006, he made his Broadway debut opposite Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy in the Music Box Theater production of The Vertical Hour written by David Hare and directed by Sam Mendes,[5] for which he was nominated for a Drama League Award.[6]
In 2008, Scott appeared in the award-winning HBO miniseries John Adams, opposite Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti. In 2009, he appeared in Sea Wall, a one-man show written especially for him by Olivier award-winning playwright Simon Stephens.[1]
He starred alongside Ben Whishaw, Katherine Parkinson and Paul Jesson in a sell-out run of Cock at the Royal Court in late 2009, a production which won an Olivier Award in 2010. He has recently been seen in Foyle's War as a prisoner determined to allow himself to hang for a crime he may not have committed, which was described in Slant Magazine as a "standout performance."[7] Other recent appearances include a role in Chasing Cotards (a short film that made specifically for IMAX presentation by Director Edward L Dark), as well as a portrayal of Paul McCartney in BBC film Lennon Naked. He also starred in the critically acclaimed 2010 film Anton Chekhov's The Duel.[8]
His most recent credits include an appearance as Sherlock Holmes' nemesis Moriarty in the BBC drama Sherlock, and a guest role in the second series of Garrow's Law. In 2010 he appeared with Lisa Dillon and Tom Burke in the Old Vic production of Noël Coward's Design for Living.[1]
In 2011 he played the main role of Julian in Ben Power's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's epic Emperor and Galilean at the National Theatre in London.[9]
He also had a small part in BBC2's original drama The Hour as Adam Le Ray, a failed actor. He appeared in two episodes; 1 and 3.
He won a BAFTA in 2012 for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Moriarty in Sherlock.
In addition to his stage and TV work, Scott is also known for his voice acting in radio plays and audio books, such as the roles of Jay Gatsby in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Stage
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes | Awards |
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| 1995 | Korea | Eamonn Doyle | ||
| 1997 | Drinking Crude | Paul | ||
| 1998 | Miracle at Midnight | Michael Grunbaum | TV movie | |
| Saving Private Ryan | Soldier on the Beach | |||
| The Tale of Sweety Barrett | Danny | |||
| The American | Valentin de Bellegarde | TV movie | ||
| 2000 | Longitude | John Campbell | TV movie | |
| Nora | Michael Bodkin | |||
| 2001 | I Was the Cigarette Girl | Tim | Short | |
| Band of Brothers | Pvt. John "Cowboy" Hall | TV mini-series (2 episodes: "Day of Days") | ||
| 2003 | Killing Hitler | Sniper | TV documentary | |
| Dead Bodies | Tommy McGann | IFTA Award – Best Actor | ||
| 2004 | My Life in Film | Jones | TV series (6 episodes) | |
| 2005 | The Quatermass Experiment | Vernon | TV movie | |
| 2007 | Nuclear Secrets | Andrei Sakarov | TV mini-series (1 episode: "Superbomb") | |
| 2008 | John Adams | Col. William Smith | TV series (4 episodes) | |
| Little White Lie | Barry | TV movie | ||
| 2009 | Anton Chekhov's The Duel | Laevsky | ||
| 2010 | Chasing Cotards | Hart Elliot-Hinwood | Short | |
| Silent Things | Jake | Short | ||
| Foyle's War | James Devereux | TV series (1 episode: "The Hide") | ||
| Lennon Naked | Paul McCartney | TV movie | ||
| 2010–2012 | Sherlock | Jim Moriarty | TV series (6 episodes) | 2012 BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
IFTA Award Actor in a Supporting Role |
| 2010 | Garrow's Law | Captain Jones | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #2.2") | |
| 2011 | The Hour | Adam Le Ray | TV series | |
| 2012 | Sea Wall | Alex | Short film | |
| Blackout | Dalien Bevan | TV mini-series | ||
| The Scapegoat | Paul | TV movie | ||
| The Town | Mark Nicholas | TV series | ||
| 2013 | The Stag[10] | Best Man | Irish TV Film | |
| Dates[11] | Man | TV Mini-Series | ||
| 2014 | Locke | Donal |
Radio plays and readings of books (selection)
- 2003 – Gil in David Varela's one-off comedy Olivia's Line with Kelly Reilly
- 2009 – Billy Pilgrim in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
- 2012 – Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
- 2012 – Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses
- 2012 – Charles Darnay in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
Assorted short stories such as The Rachel Papers, The Wire, Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Angel of Covent Garden et al.
Poems by Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Jack Kerouac, Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage and others.
References
- ^ a b c "Sherlock actor Andrew Scott: Tenderness is more interesting than blatant sexuality". Metro.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ^ ""MORIARTY IS DEAD"". Shortlist. Retrieved 2013-02-10.
- ^ Lyn Gardner (2006-05-19). "Dying City, Royal Court, London". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ^ "2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music". New York Times. 2008-04-07. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ^ Ben Brantley (2006-12-01). "Battle Zones in Hare Country". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ^ "73rd Annual Drama League Award Nominees Announced". Playbill.com. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ^ "Foyle's War: Series VI". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ^ Manohla Dargis (2010-04-28). "Movie Review - Anton Chekhov's The Duel - Summer's Heat Breeds Love, Loathing and Darwinian Competition". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/jun/15/review-emperor-and-galilean-olivier
- ^ http://gambitpublish.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/andrew-scott-filming-in-dublin-soon/
- ^ http://www.rte.ie/ten/2013/0206/scotta.html/
External links
- Andrew Scott at IMDb
- Andrew Scott Watch 'Sea Wall' online (official website). Accessed 14 May 2012.
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