Andrew Scott (actor)
Andrew Scott (born October 21, 1976 in Dublin ) is an Irish actor who works in film , television and theater . He has received numerous awards for his performances, including the Olivier , BAFTA and IFTA awards. Scott gained international fame through roles such as Paul McCartney in the BBC drama Lennon Naked , Sherlock Holmes ' counterpart James "Jim" Moriarty in Sherlock , Max Denbigh ("C") in James Bond 007: Specter and most recently that of " Hot Priest ”in Fleabag .
Life
Andrew Scott grew up as the middle child of three children, married to Jim and Nora Scott, in the Irish capital, Dublin. In the south of the city he attended Gonzaga College, a Jesuit- sponsored secondary school for boys . His parents both worked in the public sector, his father as an employment agency , and his mother as an art teacher . Scott's older sister Sarah coaches the hockey team at a Catholic school, and younger sister Hannah James Scott is also an actress.
Scott describes himself as shy to this day. The hope of getting rid of his shyness, which was particularly pronounced in childhood, brought him to the theater stage for the first time, and in fact role play helped him to a large extent to overcome it. Against this background, Scott is a constant advocate of low-threshold theater offers for children and adolescents, completely independent of their later career path: in almost every training and most professions, sooner or later you have to confidently give lectures and make successful contact with colleagues, superiors, subordinates and customers can tie. With these and other possible hurdles of interaction in professional life, basic playful acting experience helps especially shy people immensely.
Scott has always taken the protection of his privacy very seriously. The fact that he has achieved this so successfully even in his increasing popularity and growing international media interest over the past ten years is due to conscious decisions that he probably would not have been able to make if he were in his twenties or even at the beginning of his career Came to fame. He consistently does not speak to media representatives about his family and only rarely about his other private matters and convictions. About intrusive fans and crossing borders, he said: “Of course some fan mail is a bit weird, but basically I can't understand the frequent media representation that fans are completely crazy beings. Most of them are very respectful, very pleasant people. They are not the ones to push any boundaries. [...] I am an ardent philanthropist and I definitely don't want you to ever become an enemy for me. I had to experience exactly how this happened to colleagues who are constantly being disturbed. But there is at least a certain amount of control that you can maintain if you consistently keep some things to yourself from the beginning and don't even let the spark go. I admire actors who can move smoothly from one character and genre to the next and on and on. I want to be and remain such an actor. If you have this claim, you have to be careful with your private life. "
In response to Vladimir Putin's passing of a law against so-called propaganda for homosexuality , meaning any public confession and indulging in same-sex love in Russia, Scott made his first statement in 2013 about his own homosexuality. A subordinate clause remained in the interview with The Independent about the BBC film adaptation Legacy , in which Scott played a Russian spy and acquired a Russian-English accent for this by studying English-language video recordings intensively, first Putin and, after the change in law, Rudolf Nureyev . He later also mentioned a long-time partner. However, he never revealed the name of his partner and did not comment on the relationship in the following years. If his sexuality is addressed in interviews, he reacts by pointing out that being gay is thankfully no longer seen by society as a flaw or a weakness of character - but neither is it a virtue like warmth or a talent like playing the banjo. It's just a fact, and not a particularly interesting one. It is of course part of his person, but has no relevance to his work. Although privacy is very important to him, there is a difference between reticence and concealment, and he does not consider himself a secretive. He just wants to do his job in the best possible way and that consists of embodying a multitude of completely different personalities convincingly.
Career
Scott began to study acting at Trinity College Dublin , but found the theoretical-theater studies approach to his art form too restrictive and left the university after a few months to work as an actor at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. At 17 he played the lead role in the Irish film Korea . In 1998 he got a minor role in Steven Spielberg 's Saving Private Ryan . For his collaboration with Karel Reisz in the Gate Theater production of One Long Day Journey into the Night , he was named Actor of the Year at the Independent / Spirit of Life Awards and received an Irish Times Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Scott played roles in Nora with Ewan McGregor and in a television adaptation of Henry James ' The American before making his London theater debut in Conor McPherson's Dublin Carol with Brian Cox at the Royal Court Theater . He then got bigger roles, like in the BAFTA-winning television drama Longitude and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers . Following his role as Naive Jones in the BBC miniseries My Life in Film , he received his first Olivier Award for his role in A Girl in a Car with a Man at the Royal Court Theater. Andrew Scott made his first appearance on Broadway in 2006 , where he worked with Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy in the music box theater production of The Vertical Hour by David Hare . For this role he was nominated for the Drama League Award. In 2008, Scott appeared in the HBO miniseries John Adams - Freedom for America . The multiple (u. A. With the Olivier ) winning writer Simon Stephens wrote his one-man theater piece Sea Wall for Andrew Scott, who, as the monologue in both the 30-minute film in various theaters in Britain lectured.
Together with Ben Whishaw , Katherine Parkinson and Paul Jesson, he played in the very successful play Cock am Royal Court at the end of 2009 , which won the Olivier Award in 2010. His appearance in Foyle's War was described in Slant Magazine as an outstanding performance ("standout performance"). Scott's other projects included Chasing Cotards (a short film by director Edward L Dark, shot and presented in IMAX format), as well as his portrayal of Paul McCartney in the BBC television film Lennon Naked and his role as an antihero in the critically acclaimed film Anton Chekhov's The Duel , a live adaptation of the Chekhov novella Das Duell (1891) from 2010. In 2011 he played the lead role of Julian in Ben Powers adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's epic Emperor and Galilean at the National Theater in London. This was followed by a guest appearance on the second season of the Garrow's Law series .
He achieved worldwide fame at the latest with his highly acclaimed appearance as Sherlock Holmes ' greatest opponent James “Jim” Moriarty in the BBC television series Sherlock , which was extremely successful internationally and received numerous awards. For his original and creative reinterpretation of the criminal genius Moriarty, Scott et al. a. Honored with the BAFTA in 2012 and the IFTA Award in 2013.
In July 2012, Scott appeared on the BBC miniseries Blackout , in which he played a seedy cop. In this project, Christopher Eccleston took the lead role, with whom Scott had already worked in Lennon Naked . In 2017 he played the title role in William Shakespeare's Hamlet in a production at the Almeida Theater . In 2019 he caused a worldwide sensation with his portrayal of the young Catholic priest ("The Priest") who was written for him in Phoebe Waller- Bridge's highly acclaimed series Fleabag . He then turned back to the theater and since June 2019 has played one of the leading roles in Matthew Warchus' re-production of Noël Coward's social comedy Present Laughter at the Old Vic Theater . There is currently still speculation about a guest performance by the ensemble on New York's Broadway in early 2020.
In addition to his work as an actor, Scott has also spoken a number of radio pieces and audio books and plays , including the role of Jay Gatsby in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses .
Scott repeatedly describes versatility as the most valued aspect of his professional life. Although the work at the theater is particularly important to him, for example, and he describes it as particularly rewarding work despite the low financial incentives and, for example, described his work on Shakespeare's Hamlet as perhaps the most enriching project of his professional life, he was able to do it with the best of will immediately after the end of the season do not imagine joining another play. Instead, he is grateful to be able to switch flexibly between media, and especially between genres. He selects each new project according to criteria of being different compared to the previous activity, the complexity of his film character and the unusualness and depth of the story told, which makes him participate in independent films and more often and more often and prefer to appear on the red carpets of international film festivals ( e.g. repeatedly in Cannes , Toronto and Berlin ) as major Hollywood events.
theatre
| year | piece | role | Director | theatre | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Beach Memoirs ( Neil Simon , UA 1982) | Stan | Rita Tieghe | Andrew's Lane, Dublin | ||
| Six Characters in Search of an Author ( Luigi Pirandello , WP 1925) | son | John Crowley | Abbey Theater , Dublin | OT Be personaggi in cerca d'autore | |
| The Marriage of Figaro ( Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais , WP 1784) | Cherubim | Brian Brady | Abbey Theater , Dublin | OT La folle journée ou Le mariage de Figaro ( The great day or The Marriage of Figaro ) | |
| A Woman of No Importance ( Oscar Wilde , UA 1893) | Gerald Arbuthnot | Ben Barnes | Abbey Theater , Dublin | ||
| Lonesome West | Welsh | Gary Hines | Druid Theater Company, Galway | ||
| Long Day's Journey into Night ( Eugene O'Neill , WP 1956) | Edmund | Karel Reisz | Gate Theater , Dublin | German title One long day trip into the night | |
| Dublin Carol | mark | Ian Rickson | The Old Vic , London; Royal Court Theater , London | ||
| The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde | Lord Alfred Douglas | Patrick Mason | Abbey Theater , Dublin; The Barbican ( Royal Shakespeare Company ), London | ||
| The coming world | Ed / Ty | Mark Brickman | Soho Theater, London | ||
| Crave | B. | Vicky Featherstone | Royal Court Theater , London | ||
| Original Sin | fishing rod | Peter Gill | Crucible Theater , Sheffield | ||
| Playing the Victim | Valya | Richard Wilson | Royal Court Theater , London | ||
| The Cavalcaders | Rory | Robin Lefevre | Tricycle Theater, London | ||
| A Girl in a Car With a Man | Alex | Joe Hill-Gibbins | Royal Court Theater , London | Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theater | |
| Aristocrats | Casimir | Tom Cairns | Royal National Theater , London | ||
| 2006 | Dying City (Christopher Shinn, WP 2006) | Craig / Peter | James McDonald | Royal Court Theater , London | premiere |
| 2006 | The Vertical Hour ( David Hare , WP 2006) | Sam Mendes | The Music Box , New York City | Premiere; German title Zeitfenster ; Drama League Award nomination | |
| 2009 | Roaring Trade | Roxana Silbert | Soho Theater, London | premiere | |
| 2008-09 | Sea Wall ( Simon Stephens , WP 2008) | Alex | George Perrin | Bush Theater, London | Premiere; The one-man piece was tailor-made for Scott von Stephens |
| 2010 | Design for Living ( Noël Coward , UA 1933) | Leo | Anthony Page | The Old Vic , London | |
| 2011 | Cock (Mike Bartlett, WP 2011) | M. | James McDonald | Royal Court Theater , London | Premiere; Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theater |
| Emperor and Galilean ( Henrik Ibsen , UA 1896) | Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus or Iulianus Apostata) | Jonathan Kent | Royal National Theater , London | OT Kejser og Galilæer ; German title Kaiser und Galiläer | |
| Hamlet ( William Shakespeare , UA ca.1601) | Hamlet | Robert Icke | Almeida Theater , London | Nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award | |
| 2019– | Present Laughter ( Noël Coward , WP 1939) | Garry Essendine | Matthew Warchus | The Old Vic , London |
Filmography (selection)
- 1995: Korea
- 1997: Drinking Crude
- 1998: Miracle at Midnight (TV movie)
- 1998: Saving Private Ryan (Saving Private Ryan)
- 1998: The Tale of Sweety Barrett
- 1998: The American (TV movie)
- 2000: Longitude (TV movie)
- 2000: Nora - The passionate love of James Joyce (Nora)
- 2001: I Was the Cigarette Girl (short film)
- 2001: Band of Brothers - We were like brothers ( Band of Brothers , Miniseries, Part 2: "The First Day")
- 2003: Killing Hitler (Documentation)
- 2003: Dead Bodies
- 2004: My Life in Film (miniseries, 6 parts)
- 2005: The Quatermass Experiment (TV movie)
- 2007: Nuclear Secrets (Miniseries, Part 3: "Superbomb")
- 2008: John Adams - Freedom for America ( John Adams , miniseries, 4 parts)
- 2008: Little White Lie (TV movie)
- 2009: Anton Chekhov's The Duel
- 2010: Chasing Cotards (short film)
- 2010: Silent Things (short film)
- 2010: Foyle's War (TV series, episode "The Hide")
- 2010: Lennon Naked (TV movie)
- 2010: Garrow's Law (TV series, episode 2.02)
- 2010-2017: Sherlock (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 2011: The Hour (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2012: Sea Wall (short film)
- 2012: Blackout (mini-series, 3 parts)
- 2012: The Scapegoat (TV movie)
- 2012: The Town (Miniseries, 3 parts)
- 2013: No Turning Back ( Locke , speaking role)
- 2013: Dates (TV series, episode "Jenny & Christian")
- 2013: The Bachelor Weekend (The Stag)
- 2014: Pride
- 2014: Jimmy's Hall
- 2015: James Bond 007: Specter (Specter)
- 2015: Victor Frankenstein - Genius and Madness (Victor Frankenstein)
- 2016: The Hollow Crown (TV series, episode 2.02)
- 2016: Alice in Wonderland: Behind the Mirrors (Alice Through the Looking Glass)
- 2016: Handsome Devil
- 2016: denial (Denial)
- 2016: The Wonderful Garden of Bella Brown (This Beautiful Fantastic)
- 2017: The Hope Rooms (short film)
- 2017: The Delinquent Season
- 2018: Steel Country
- 2018: King Lear (TV movie)
- 2019: Cognition (short film)
- 2019: Fleabag (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 2019: Black Mirror ( anthological TV series , episode 5.02 "Smithereens")
- 2019: Modern Love (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2019: 1917
Radio plays (selection)
- 2009: Billy Pilgrim in Kurt Vonneguts slaughterhouse 5
- 2012: Jay Gatsby in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
- 2012: Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses
- 2012: Harold Pinters Cheated ( Betrayal )
Various short stories such as The Rachel Papers , The Wire , Edgar Allan Poe's The Double Murder in Rue Morgue , The Angel of Covent Garden and others. a.
Poems by Pablo Neruda , Robert Frost , Emily Dickinson , Jack Kerouac , Seamus Heaney , Simon Armitage and others. a.
Awards
- 2005: Outstanding performance in an affiliated theater - A Girl in a Car with a Man - won
- 2018: Best Actor in a Play - Hamlet - nominated
- 2012: Best Supporting Actor - Sherlock - won
- 2003: Best Actor - Dead Bodies - won
- 2013: Best TV Supporting Actor - Sherlock - won
- 2014: Best Actor (Motion Picture) - The Stag - nominated
- 2015: Best Supporting Actor (Feature Film) - Pride - nominated
- 2015: Best TV Supporting Actor - Sherlock - nominated
- 2017: Best Supporting Actor (Drama Series) - The Hollow Crown - nominated
- 2014: Best Supporting Actor - Pride - won
Berlin International Film Festival
- 2004: Shooting Star Award - won
- 2012: Best Supporting Actor - Referee - won
- 2013: Best Actor - Betrayal - won
Drama League Award
- 2007: Outstanding Performance - The Vertical Hour - nominated
Irish Times Theater Awards
- 1998: Best Supporting Actor - Long Day's Journey into Night
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Oxford Union : Andrew Scott | Full Q&A | Oxford Union. Uploaded to YouTube on March 17, 2018. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
- ↑ a b James Rampton: 'Sherlock has changed my whole career': Andrew Scott interview. In: The Independent of November 15, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
- ↑ queer.de: “Sherlock” star comes out as gay
- ↑ a b c Sherlock actor Andrew Scott: Tenderness is more interesting than blatant sexuality . In: Metro.co.uk . Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- Jump up ↑ Ben Brantley: Battle Zones in Hare Country . In: New York Times , December 1, 2006. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- ↑ 73rd Annual Drama League Award Nominees Announced . In: Playbill.com . Archived from the original on July 22, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- ^ Sea Wall . Retrieved July 20, 2012.
- ^ Foyle's War: Series VI . In: Slant Magazine . Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- ↑ Manohla Dargis: Movie Review - Anton Chekhov's The Duel - Summer's Heat Breeds Love, Loathing and Darwinian Competition . In: New York Times , April 28, 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/first-nights/article/item116382/emperor-and-galilean/
- ↑ http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/backstage-pass/article/item116215/andrew-scott/
- ↑ 10th IFTA 2013 winners . In: Playbill.com . Retrieved February 11, 2013.
- ↑ Hamlet review - Andrew Scott is a truly sweet prince in: The Guardian, March 5, 2017, accessed September 16, 2017
- ↑ Rialto Chatter: Is Matthew Warchus' Production of PRESENT LAUGHTER Headed To Broadway? In: BroadwayWorld.com on June 27, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
Web links
- Andrew Scott in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Watch 'Sea Wall' online (official website). Accessed 14 May 2012.
- British Academy Television Awards homepage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scott, Andrew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin , Ireland |