Irish actor Andrew Scott has enjoyed a very successful career on stage and in film for the past 28 years.  Highlights include portraying James Moriarty in the BBC series Sherlock , for which he won the BAFTA Television Award   and  Fleabag (2019)  which earned him the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Plus for performances on the West End Stage, he has won two Laurence Olivier Awards

Not bad for the openly gay actor who revealed earlier this year that people wanted him to keep his sexuality to himself when he first started out. Earlier in an interview with The Independent  Scott stated “Mercifully, these days people don’t see being gay as a character flaw. But nor is it a virtue, like kindness. Or a talent, like playing the banjo. It’s just a fact. Of course, it’s part of my make-up, but I don’t want to trade on it.”

In fact, 2023 is proving to be one of Scott’s best professional years to date.  He plays gay in Andrew Haigh’s ‘All Of Us Strangers‘ the compelling intricate tale of two mysterious lovers which just swept the board at the British Independent Film Awards (winning 7).  Scott has nominations pending for Best Actor at the Golden Globe and Independent Spirit  Awards.  (The Oscars have not been announced).  The movie will be released on December 22nd

 

 

Next up Scott is playing the lead in RIPLEY a Netflix limited series adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novels.  Ripley is a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York,  who is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn) to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud, and murder. Dakota Fanning plays Marge Sherwood, an American living in Italy who suspects darker motives underlie Tom’s affability.   The series will premiere on Netflix early in 2024

You may recall that “The Talented Mr. Ripley” was famously adapted into a film starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow in 1999. 

 

 

In September Scott was back in London’s West End in a new solo adaptation of Anton Chekhov‘s classic play Vanya.   Amongst the reviews his performance garnered was this one from Time Out  ‘Vanya’ – a solo reworking of Chekhov’s play – is a truly remarkable performance from Andrew Scott: not a man hammily flexing between roles but something more profound and complicated, a headlong odyssey into the devastating emotions at the play’s heart.  It also earned Scoot an Evening Standard  Best Actor Award.

The performance was filmed live and will be released in top movie theatres this February

 

Andrew Scott – Vanya trailer – in cinemas 22 Feb 2024💫 pic.twitter.com/SODv4rixNc

— Carl Woodward (@mrcarl_woodward) December 15, 2023