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Thank you, Helen.
Must be a good actor 'cos I didn't recognise him - and I've defintiely watched some of what he's been in!!
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Andrew Scott (born 1976) is an Irish film, television, and stage actor. He received the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for A Girl in a Car with a Man and an IFTA award for Dead Bodies. Andrew Scott also played Paul McCartney in the BBC television drama "Lennon Naked" and Moriarty in Sherlock.
Career
He recently starred as Paul McCartney in BBC film, Lennon Naked, as well as Jim in the BBC miniseries 'Sherlock'. He also starred with Ben Whishaw in a sell-out run of Cock at the Royal Court Theatre, which won him and his co-stars the 2010 Olivier Award . In 2010 he filmed the lead role in a new film adaptation of Anton Chekov’s The Duel which has opened in the US to rave reviews.
Other recent work includes the multi award winning John Adams opposite Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti for HBO, Sea Wall, a one man show written especially for him by Olivier- award winning playwright Simon Stephens, and The Vertical Hour, his critically acclaimed Broadway debut opposite Julianne Moore, written by David Hare and directed by Sam Mendes, for which he was nominated for a Drama League Award.
He dropped out of his Drama degree at Trinity College to join Dublin’s famous Abbey Theatre, he garnered rave reviews for a season of lead roles.
He made his film debut aged seventeen as the young lead in acclaimed Irish film Korea.
After filming a small part in Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, he worked with legendary film and theatre director Karel Reisz on the classic American play Long Day’s Journey into Night for which he won Actor of the Year at the Independent/Spirit of Life Awards as well as an Irish Times Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He was just twenty- one years old.
He then filmed Nora with Ewan McGregor, and 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 major roles in the BAFTA winning drama Longitude opposite Michael Gambon, and multi-award winning series ‘Band Of Brothers’ for HBO.
For his role in Buena Vista’s Dead Bodies, Andrew beat Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy and Aidan Quinn to win Best Actor at the Irish Film Awards. He then went on to receive a Shooting Star Award at the Berlin Film Festival for the same movie.
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 Theatre Goers Choice award for his heartbreaking 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, at The Royal Court, which was eventually nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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. His work was described in Slant Magazine as a "standout performance".
Scott has been cast as Leo in a Design For Living at The Old Vic this autumn.
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the actors name is Andrew Scott
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Who was Moriarty on Sherlock?
Can't seem to find out online who he was, looks a bit like a young Donny Osmond with a 'serious' haircut!!! LOL
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