Andrew Scott Biography

Andrew Scott (born 21 October 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 years

Whilst growing up Scott attended Gonzaga College, on the south side of Dublin. Whilst there he took part in youth theatre and was in two ads 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 Abbey Theatre.

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, Dublin, 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".

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, which was later nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. 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, for which he was nominated for a Drama League Award.

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.

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." Other recent appearances include a role in Chasing Cotards (a short film made 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.

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.

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.

He also had a small part in BBC2's original drama The Hour as Adam Le Ray, a failed actor.

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

Production	Character	Director	Company	Awards
Brighton Beach Memoirs	Stan	Rita Tieghe	Andrew's Lane, Dublin
Six Characters in Search of an Author	The Son	John Crowley	Abbey Theatre
The Marriage of Figaro	Cherubim	Brian Brady	Abbey Theatre
A Woman of No Importance	Gerald Arbuthnot	Ben Barnes	Abbey Theatre
Lonesome West	Welsh	Garry Hynes	Druid Theatre Co.
Long Day's Journey into Night	Edmund	Karel Reisz	The Gate, Dublin
Dublin Carol	Mark	Ian Rickson	Old Vic/Royal Court
The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde	Lord Alfred Douglas	Patrick Mason	Abbey Theatre/Barbican, RSC
The Coming World	Ed/Ty	Mark Brickman	Soho Theatre
Crave	B	Vicky Featherstone	Royal Court
Original Sin	Angel	Peter Gill	Sheffield Crucible
Playing the Victim	Valya	Richard Wilson	Told by an Idiot
The Cavalcaders	Rory	Robin Lefevre	Tricycle Theatre
A Girl in a Car with a Man	Alex	Joe Hill-Gibbins	Royal Court	Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre
Aristocrats	Casimir	Tom Cairns	National Theatre
Dying City	Craig/Peter	James McDonald	Royal Court
The Vertical Hour		Sam Mendes	The Music Box, NY	Nominated " Drama League Award
Sea Wall		George Perrin	The Bush Theatre
Roaring Trade		Roxana Silbert	Soho Theatre
Cock	M	James McDonald	Royal Court	Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre
Design for Living	Leo	Anthony Page	Old Vic
Emperor and Galilean	Julian	Jonathan Kent	Royal National Theatre

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes	Awards
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 (4 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 (2 episodes: 1 and 3)
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	Best Man	Irish TV Film
	Dates	Christian	TV Mini-Series
2014	Locke	Donal	post-production

Radio plays and readings of books

• 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
• 2013 " Narrator in Cassandra Clare's Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale (The Bane Chronicles)

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.