Andrew Scott(I)
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Andrew Scott is an Irish actor who started his career at a very young age. He made his first appearance on television in an advertisement for a brand of porridge at the age of six.
He was born into an Irish family, where his father, Jim, worked in a recruitment agency, and his mother, Nora, taught art. He has an older sister, Sarah, and a younger sister, Hannah.
He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in an Affiliated Theater for the play "A Girl in a Car with a Man" at Jerwood Theater Upstairs and the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor for the film Dead Bodies.
He is known for his portrayal of Paul McCartney in the 2010 BBC drama Lennon Naked and for his portrayal of villain Jim Moriarty in the modern adaptation Sherlock, also produced in 2010 by the BBC, and for which he received the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2012.
In November 2013, he revealed his homosexuality during an interview for the British daily "The Independent", while indicating that he did not play it in the interpretation of his roles: "Fortunately, nowadays, people don't perceive homosexuality as a defect. But it's also not a quality, like kindness. Or a talent, like knowing how to play the banjo. It's simply a fact. Of course, that's part of what I'm sending back, but I don't want to play with it. I'm not advertising it; I think it's important when you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person. All I really want to do is continue doing my job, which is pretending to be a bunch of different people. It's as simple as that."
In 2014, he took on the role of a priest in Ken Loach's film, Jimmy's Hall.
In 2015, he appeared in the new James Bond: 007 Spectre, as Max Denbigh, aka "C", a member of the British government whose goal is to shut down the Double-0 spy branch.
In 2017, he returned to the role of Hamlet in the theater, under the direction of Robert Icke, for nearly 150 performances. The piece lasts almost four hours. His performance was unanimously praised by critics.
In 2019, he played "the priest" in the second season of the multi-award-winning British series Fleabag. This role notably earned him a nomination for the Golden Globes in 2020, as best supporting role in a TV series. Fans of the series nicknamed him "the hot priest", the Catholic priest with whom Fleabag fell in love. He reprised the role in 2020, in a "special" episode of the Irish series Normal People.
The same year, he reunited with Sam Mendes, with whom he had already collaborated several times in the past, in the film 1917.
Then he participated in an episode of the successful British series Black Mirror for episode 2 of season 5, entitled Smithereens.
In 2020, Andrew Scott landed the lead role in the series Tom Ripley, adapted from the novels by Patricia Highsmith. The same year, the actor read the poem "Everything is Going to be All Right" by Irish poet Derek Mahon, in a video posted on Instagram by actress Emilia Clarke. This reading is dedicated to Irish men with cancer.
Andrew Scott was part of the jury for the 2021 GQ Grooming Awards, a ceremony created by GQ magazine and which celebrates men's cosmetic products.
In November 2020, he filmed the television adaptation for HBO of the play Oslo by J.T. Rogers alongside Ruth Wilson, with Steven Spielberg as executive producer.
In March 2021, Andrew Scott filmed Lena Dunham's new film, Catherine, Called Birdy, the adaptation of the book of the same name, alongside Billie Piper.
He was born into an Irish family, where his father, Jim, worked in a recruitment agency, and his mother, Nora, taught art. He has an older sister, Sarah, and a younger sister, Hannah.
He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in an Affiliated Theater for the play "A Girl in a Car with a Man" at Jerwood Theater Upstairs and the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor for the film Dead Bodies.
He is known for his portrayal of Paul McCartney in the 2010 BBC drama Lennon Naked and for his portrayal of villain Jim Moriarty in the modern adaptation Sherlock, also produced in 2010 by the BBC, and for which he received the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2012.
In November 2013, he revealed his homosexuality during an interview for the British daily "The Independent", while indicating that he did not play it in the interpretation of his roles: "Fortunately, nowadays, people don't perceive homosexuality as a defect. But it's also not a quality, like kindness. Or a talent, like knowing how to play the banjo. It's simply a fact. Of course, that's part of what I'm sending back, but I don't want to play with it. I'm not advertising it; I think it's important when you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person. All I really want to do is continue doing my job, which is pretending to be a bunch of different people. It's as simple as that."
In 2014, he took on the role of a priest in Ken Loach's film, Jimmy's Hall.
In 2015, he appeared in the new James Bond: 007 Spectre, as Max Denbigh, aka "C", a member of the British government whose goal is to shut down the Double-0 spy branch.
In 2017, he returned to the role of Hamlet in the theater, under the direction of Robert Icke, for nearly 150 performances. The piece lasts almost four hours. His performance was unanimously praised by critics.
In 2019, he played "the priest" in the second season of the multi-award-winning British series Fleabag. This role notably earned him a nomination for the Golden Globes in 2020, as best supporting role in a TV series. Fans of the series nicknamed him "the hot priest", the Catholic priest with whom Fleabag fell in love. He reprised the role in 2020, in a "special" episode of the Irish series Normal People.
The same year, he reunited with Sam Mendes, with whom he had already collaborated several times in the past, in the film 1917.
Then he participated in an episode of the successful British series Black Mirror for episode 2 of season 5, entitled Smithereens.
In 2020, Andrew Scott landed the lead role in the series Tom Ripley, adapted from the novels by Patricia Highsmith. The same year, the actor read the poem "Everything is Going to be All Right" by Irish poet Derek Mahon, in a video posted on Instagram by actress Emilia Clarke. This reading is dedicated to Irish men with cancer.
Andrew Scott was part of the jury for the 2021 GQ Grooming Awards, a ceremony created by GQ magazine and which celebrates men's cosmetic products.
In November 2020, he filmed the television adaptation for HBO of the play Oslo by J.T. Rogers alongside Ruth Wilson, with Steven Spielberg as executive producer.
In March 2021, Andrew Scott filmed Lena Dunham's new film, Catherine, Called Birdy, the adaptation of the book of the same name, alongside Billie Piper.
