
Andrew Scott
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.
92 acting credits
Acting · 92

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Black Mirror
2011

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Horizon
1964

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

Band of Brothers
2001

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014

Sherlock
2010

Saving Private Ryan
1998

Foyle's War
2002

His Dark Materials
2019

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025

Modern Love
2019

Fleabag
2016

The Comeback
2005

1917
2019

Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016

The Hollow Crown
2012

Spectre
2015

John Adams
2008

Pressure
2026

Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023

RIPLEY
2024

Too Much
2025

The Late Late Show
1962

Blue Moon
2025

Back in Action
2025

Garrow's Law
2009

Dates
2013

Longitude
2000

All of Us Strangers
2023

School of Roars
2017

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016

Victor Frankenstein
2015

The Town
2012

Locke
2014

The Pursuit of Love
2021

Pride
2014

Denial
2016

King Lear
2018

Handsome Devil
2017

Blackout
2012

My Life in Film
2004

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013

This Beautiful Fantastic
2016

A Dark Place
2018

Longitude
2000

A Place in Hell
2026

Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012

Earth's Seasonal Secrets
2017

Catherine Called Birdy
2022

Nora
2000

Hamlet
2018

Oslo
2021

National Theatre Live: Present Laughter
2019

An Audience with Kylie
2023

Jimmy's Hall
2014

Sweety Barrett
1999

The Love She Sought
1990

Secret Safari: Into the Wild
2021

The Scapegoat
2012

The Quatermass Experiment
2005

Heart of Darkness
—

Anton Chekhov's The Duel
2010

Legacy
2013

The Delinquent Season
2018

The American
1998

Quintessentially Irish
2024

National Theatre Live: Vanya
2024
On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers
2024

Miracle at Midnight
1998

Dead Bodies
2003

Swallows and Amazons
2016

Cognition
2020

Lennon Naked
2010
Fonda
—

The Stag
2013
Elsinore
—

Unlocking Sherlock
2014

Little White Lie
2008

Silent Things
2010

Korea
1996

Drinking Crude
1997

The Hope Rooms
2016

Killing Hitler
2003
Walk the Blue Fields
—

Chasing Cotards
2011

Sea Wall
2012

Three Kings
2020

People Watching
2025