Andrew Scott

Actor

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

Not in library

Saving Private Ryan

1998

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1917

2019

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Spectre

2015

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Alice Through the Looking Glass

2016

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Sherlock

2010

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Black Mirror

2011

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Band of Brothers

2001

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Locke

2014

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

2025

Not in library

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

2016

Acting

2026 Pressure as James Stagg In Library

2025 Back in Action as Baron

2025 Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Lee Ross

2025 Blue Moon as Richard Rodgers

2025 People Watching

2025 Too Much as Jim Wenlich Rice (2 episodes)

2024 National Theatre Live: Vanya as Ivan / Sonya / Michael / Helena / Alexander / Maureen / Liam / Elizabeth

2024 On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers as Self

2024 Quintessentially Irish as Self

2024 RIPLEY as Tom Ripley (8 episodes)

2023 All of Us Strangers as Adam

2023 An Audience with Kylie as Self

2023 Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self (1 episode)

2022 Catherine Called Birdy as Lord Rollo

2021 Oslo as Terje Rød-Larsen

2021 Secret Safari: Into the Wild as Narrator (6 episodes)

2021 The Pursuit of Love as Lord Merlin (3 episodes)

2020 Cognition as Elias

2020 Three Kings as Patrick

2019 1917 as Lieutenant Leslie

2019 National Theatre Live: Present Laughter as Garry Essendine

2019 His Dark Materials as Jopari (1 episode)

2019 Modern Love as Tobin (1 episode)

2019 His Dark Materials as John Parry (4 episodes)

2019 His Dark Materials as Colonel John Parry (2 episodes)

2018 A Dark Place as Donald Devlin

2018 The Delinquent Season as Chris

2018 King Lear as Edgar

2018 Hamlet as Hamlet

2017 Handsome Devil as Dan Sherry

2017 School of Roars as Narrator (104 episodes)

2017 Earth's Seasonal Secrets as Narrator (voice) (4 episodes)

2016 Swallows and Amazons as Lazlov

2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass as Addison Bennett

2016 This Beautiful Fantastic as Vernon

2016 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride as Professor Moriarty

2016 Denial as Anthony Julius

2016 The Hope Rooms as Sean

2016 Fleabag as The Priest (6 episodes)

2015 Victor Frankenstein as Inspector Turpin

2015 Spectre as C

2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest (1 episode)

2014 Locke as Donal (voice)

2014 Pride as Gethin

2014 Unlocking Sherlock as Himself / Jim Moriarty

2014 Jimmy's Hall as Father Seamus

2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest (2 episodes)

2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self (2 episodes)

2013 The Stag as Davin

2013 Legacy as Viktor Koslov

2013 National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

2013 Dates as Christian (1 episode)

2012 Sea Wall as Alex

2012 The Scapegoat as Paul

2012 Blackout as Dalien Bevan (3 episodes)

2012 The Town as Mark Nicholas (3 episodes)

2012 Simon Schama's Shakespeare

2012 The Hollow Crown as King Louis (1 episode)

2011 Chasing Cotards as Hart Elliot-Hinwood

2011 Black Mirror as Chris Gillhaney (1 episode)

2010 Anton Chekhov's The Duel as Laevsky

2010 Silent Things as Jake

2010 Lennon Naked as Paul McCartney

2010 Sherlock as Jim Moriarty (8 episodes)

2009 Garrow's Law as Captain Robert Jones (1 episode)

2008 Little White Lie as Barry

2008 John Adams as Colonel William Smith (7 episodes)

2007 The Graham Norton Show as Self (2 episodes)

2005 The Quatermass Experiment as Vernon

2005 The Comeback as Brandon Wallick (1 episode)

2004 My Life in Film as Jones (6 episodes)

2003 Dead Bodies as Tommy McGann

2003 Killing Hitler as Sniper

2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest (1 episode)

2002 Foyle's War as James Devereaux (1 episode)

2001 Band of Brothers as John D. Hall (1 episode)

2000 Nora as Michael Bodkin

2000 Longitude as John Campbell

2000 Longitude as John Campbell (1 episode)

1999 Sweety Barrett as Danny

1998 Miracle at Midnight as Michael Grunbaum

1998 Saving Private Ryan as Soldier on the Beach

1998 The American as Valentin de Bellegarde

1997 Drinking Crude as Paul

1996 Korea as Eamon Doyle

1990 The Love She Sought as Child in classroom

1964 Horizon as Narrator (1 episode)

1962 The Late Late Show as Self (1 episode)

1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee (1 episode)

— Heart of Darkness as (voice)

— A Place in Hell

— Elsinore as Ian Charleson

— Fonda

— Walk the Blue Fields

Production

2026 We Were Here Executive Producer

2024 RIPLEY Producer

— Elsinore Producer

Crew

2024 National Theatre Live: Vanya Creator