Andrew Scott

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.

Known For

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Pressure

The Graham Norton Show

Black Mirror

Jeopardy!

Horizon

Golden Globe Awards

All Movies (60)

• A Place in Hell2026
• Pressure2026 · as James Stagg
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery2025 · as Lee Ross
• Blue Moon2025 · as Richard Rodgers
• People Watching2025
• Back in Action2025 · as Baron
• Quintessentially Irish2024 · as Self
• National Theatre Live: Vanya2024 · as Ivan / Sonya / Michael / Helena / Alexander / Maureen / Liam / Elizabeth
• On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers2024 · as Self
• All of Us Strangers2023 · as Adam
• An Audience with Kylie2023 · as Self
• Catherine Called Birdy2022 · as Lord Rollo
• Oslo2021 · as Terje Rød-Larsen
• Cognition2020 · as Elias
• Three Kings2020 · as Patrick
• 19172019 · as Lieutenant Leslie
• National Theatre Live: Present Laughter2019 · as Garry Essendine
• A Dark Place2018 · as Donald Devlin
• King Lear2018 · as Edgar
• The Delinquent Season2018 · as Chris
• Hamlet2018 · as Hamlet
• Handsome Devil2017 · as Dan Sherry
• This Beautiful Fantastic2016 · as Vernon
• Denial2016 · as Anthony Julius
• Swallows and Amazons2016 · as Lazlov
• The Hope Rooms2016 · as Sean
• Alice Through the Looking Glass2016 · as Addison Bennett
• Sherlock: The Abominable Bride2016 · as Professor Moriarty
• Victor Frankenstein2015 · as Inspector Turpin
• Spectre2015 · as C
• Pride2014 · as Gethin
• Jimmy's Hall2014 · as Father Seamus
• Locke2014 · as Donal (voice)
• Unlocking Sherlock2014 · as Himself / Jim Moriarty
• Legacy2013 · as Viktor Koslov
• National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage2013
• The Stag2013 · as Davin
• The Scapegoat2012 · as Paul
• Sea Wall2012 · as Alex
• Chasing Cotards2011 · as Hart Elliot-Hinwood
• Lennon Naked2010 · as Paul McCartney
• Silent Things2010 · as Jake
• Anton Chekhov's The Duel2010 · as Laevsky
• Little White Lie2008 · as Barry
• The Quatermass Experiment2005 · as Vernon
• Dead Bodies2003 · as Tommy McGann
• Killing Hitler2003 · as Sniper
• Nora2000 · as Michael Bodkin
• Longitude2000 · as John Campbell
• Sweety Barrett1999 · as Danny
• The American1998 · as Valentin de Bellegarde
• Saving Private Ryan1998 · as Soldier on the Beach
• Miracle at Midnight1998 · as Michael Grunbaum
• Drinking Crude1997 · as Paul
• Korea1996 · as Eamon Doyle
• The Love She Sought1990 · as Child in classroom
• Heart of Darkness— · as (voice)
• Elsinore— · as Ian Charleson
• Fonda—
• Walk the Blue Fields—

All TV Shows (35)

• Too Much2025 · as Jim Wenlich Rice
• RIPLEY2024 · as Tom Ripley
• Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter2023 · as Self
• The Pursuit of Love2021 · as Lord Merlin
• Secret Safari: Into the Wild2021 · as Narrator
• His Dark Materials2019 · as Jopari
• His Dark Materials2019 · as John Parry
• His Dark Materials2019 · as Colonel John Parry
• Modern Love2019 · as Tobin
• School of Roars2017 · as Narrator
• Earth's Seasonal Secrets2016 · as Narrator (voice)
• Fleabag2016 · as The Priest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors2014 · as Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self - Guest
• Dates2013 · as Christian
• The Town2012 · as Mark Nicholas
• Blackout2012 · as Dalien Bevan
• The Hollow Crown2012 · as King Louis
• Simon Schama's Shakespeare2012
• Black Mirror2011 · as Chris Gillhaney
• Sherlock2010 · as Jim Moriarty
• Garrow's Law2009 · as Captain Robert Jones
• John Adams2008 · as Colonel William Smith
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• The Comeback2005 · as Brandon Wallick
• My Life in Film2004 · as Jones
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Guest
• Foyle's War2002 · as James Devereaux
• Band of Brothers2001 · as John D. Hall
• Longitude2000 · as John Campbell
• Jeopardy!1984 · as Self - Clue Presenter
• Horizon1964 · as Narrator
• The Late Late Show1962 · as Self
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee