Andrew Scott
Birthdate: Oct 21, 1976
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Andrew Scott is an acclaimed Irish film, television and stage actor who launched his multi-decade career in the movies with a co-starring role in the Irish film, Korea (1995), co-starring Donal Donnelly, directed by Cathal Black and premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, followed by small roles in the movie, Drinking Crude (1997); in Steven Spielberg’s WWII epic, Saving Private Ryan (1998); in the Irish drama starring Brendan Gleeson, Sweety Barrett (1999); in the Ewan McGregor-starring Irish drama, Nora (2000), about a romance involving James Joyce.
Scott had his first leading role in the Robert Quinn-directed Irish comedy thriller, Dead Bodies (2003), with Eamonn Owens and Kelly Reilly, followed by more lead roles, including as Laevsky in Anton Chekhov’s The Duel (2010), written and produced by Mary Bing, directed by Dover Koshahvili, with Fiona Glascott, Tobias Menzies and Niall Buggy, and in Irish director/co-writer John Butler’s comedy, The Stag (2013), co-starring Hugh O’Conor, Peter McDonald, Brian Gleeson and Andrew Bennett, and which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
Scott delivered a voice role in director/writer Steven Knight’s striking solo-character drama, Locke (2013), starring Tom Hardy, with the voices of Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Ben Daniels, Tom Holland, and Bill Milner, and grossing a solid $5.2 million for A24 (U.S.)/Lionsgate (U.K.) after launching at the Venice Film Festival. Scott joined the strong British ensemble of Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, George MacKay, Joseph Gilgun and Ben Schnetzere in the LGTBQ+ historical drama, Pride (2014), directed by Matthew Warchus and written by Stephen Beresford, premiering in the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight section and then released by CBS Film (U.S.)/20th Century Fox (U.K.)/Pathe Distribution (France) to a $16.7 million return.
Andrew Scott played a supporting role in British filmmaker Ken Loach’s U.K.-Ireland-France-produced 1933-set political drama, Jimmy’s Hall (2014), written by Paul Laverty, produced by Rebecca O’Brien, and co-starring Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Jim Norton, Francis Magee, Aisling Franciosi and Brian F. O’Byrne, and which was selected for the main competition in the Cannes Film Festival before a release by Sony Pictures Classics (U.S.)/Entertainment One (U.K.-Ireland)/Le Pacte (France). Scott landed a small role in the Sam Mendes-directed James Bond movie, Spectre (2015), starring Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Christoph Waltz, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, and Monica Bellucci, produced by MGM/Columbia Pictures/Eon Productions/B24/Danjaq, and grossing a hefty $880.7 million globally for Sony Pictures Releasing.
Scott had a major supporting role in 20th Century Fox’s critical and commercial bomb, Victor Frankenstein (2015), starring Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay and Charles Dance under Paul McGuigan’s direction, grossing a poor $34.2 million (based on estimated costs), and then Scott was in another major studio bomb, the Johnny Depp-starring Lewis Carroll adaptation, Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), with Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall under James Bobin’s direction, produced (in part) by Tim Burton, grossing just under $300 million for producer-distributor Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Scott then co-starred with Rafe Spall and Kelly Macdonald in the third screen version of Arthur Ransome’s 1930 children’s novel, Swallows and Amazons (2016), directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, adapted by Andrea Gibb, produced by BBC Films/BFI/HanWay Films/Harbour Pictures, and released to a $4 million return by Orion Pictures (U.S.)/StudioCanal (International).
Andrew Scott was in a major supporting role in the true court drama, Denial (2016), starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall and Jack Lowden under Mick Jackson’s direction, written by David Hare, with lead producers BBC Films/Participant Media, and which grossed over $9 million for Bleecker Street (North America)/Entertainment One (U.K.) after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. Scott reunited with Wilkinson in the cast of director/writer Simon Aboud’s romance, This Beautiful Fantastic (2016), starring Jessica Brown Findlay, Jeremy Irvine, Anna Chancellor and Eileen Davies, and released in the U.S. by Samuel Goldwyn Films, and then Scott reunited with director/writer John Butler for the Irish coming-of-age movie, Handsome Devil (2016), with Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine, launching at the Toronto Film Festival and released by Icon Film Distribution.
Scott joined the Irish ensemble of Cillian Murphy, Catherine Walker, and Eva Birthistle in director/writer Mark O’Rowe’s Dublin-set relationship drama, The Delinquent Season (2018), and was released by Element Pictures, followed by Scott starring in the U.S.-set thriller, A Dark Place (2019), with Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough under Simon Fellows’s direction and released by Shout! Studios. Scott reunited with director/co-writer/producer Sam Mendes’ epic, Oscar-winning WWI drama, 1917 (2019), starring George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Richard Madden, Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch, with lead producers DreamWorks Pictures/Amblin Partners/Reliance Entertainment/New Republic Pictures/Neal Street Productions and grossing a powerful $446 million (based on estimated costs) for distributors Universal Pictures (U.S.)/Entertainment One (U.K.) after winning ten Oscar nominations and three wins.
Andrew Scott co-starred with Bella Ramsey and Billie Piper in director/writer/producer Lena Dunham’s big-screen version of Karen Cushman’s 1994 novel, Catherine, Called Birdy (2022), produced by Working Title Films/Good Thing Going, and which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival before a limited theatrical release, before streaming on Amazon Studios. Scott enjoyed one of his biggest successes with his acclaimed lead performance in director/writer Andrew Haigh’s gay romance, All of Us Strangers (2023), based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel, Strangers, co-starring Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy, produced by Film4 Productions/Blueprint Pictures and which launched at the Telluride Film Festival before grossing over $20 million for distributor Searchlight Pictures.
Scott portrayed Broadway musical composer Richard Rodgers in director/producer Richard Linklater’s acclaimed drama, Blue Moon (2025), written by Robert Kaplow, starring Oscar-nominated Ethan Hawke as Rodger’s former partner and lyricist, Lorenz Hart, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Jonah Lees, Simon Delaney and Patrick Kennedy, premiering in competition at the Berlin Film Festival before grossing $3 million globally for Sony Pictures Classics. Scott joined the ensemble of director/writer/producer Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out entry, Wake Up Dead Man (2025), starring Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival before a limited theatrica release before streaming by Netflix.
Andrew Scott portrayed Scottish military meteorologist James Stagg in director/co-writer Anthony Maras’ big-screen adaptation of co-screenwriter David Haig’s play, Pressure (2026), co-starring Brendan Fraser as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, with Kerry Condon, Chris Messina, and Damian Lewis, produced by Working Title Films and released wide by Focus Features (North America)/StudioCanal (International). Scott co-starred with Michelle Williams and Daisy Edgar-Jones in director/writer Chloe Domont’s thriller, A Place in Hell (2026), with Danny Huston, Arturo Castro, Rob Yang, and Kyle Mooney, produced and distributed by Neon (U.S.)/Republic Pictures (International).
Scott was a producer and starred in the U.K.-U.S.-produced biopic about Scottish actor Ian Charleson in Elsinore (2027), co-starring Olivia Colman, Billie Piper, Johnny Flynn, Juliet Stevenson, Joe Locke, and Peter Mullan, written by Stephen Beresford, and which was produced and released by StudioCanal (U.K.). Scott co-starred with Emily Blunt (who also produced) in the Claire Keegan adaptation by writer Conor McPherson, Walk the Blue Fields (date to be announced), with Tom Cullen and Ciaran Hinds, produced by Element Pictures/Compelling Pictures/Ledbury Productions, and released by Netflix.
Andrew Scott co-starred in French director/writer Justine Triet’s thriller, Fonda (date to be announced), starring Odessa A’zion, Mia Goth, Allison Janney, Ewan Mitchell, Cherry Jones, Benedict Wong, Frank Dillane, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, co-produced by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and released globally by StudioCanal. Scott did a major voice role in the British 3D animated version of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (date to be announced), joining the impressive voice cast of Matthew Rhys, James Norton, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen, Miriam Margolyes and Merv Lukeba under Gerald Conn’s direction, produced by Gritty Realism Productions/BreakThru Films and released by First Run (South Korea)/Front Row Filmed Entertainment (U.A.E./Middle East/North Africa/Iran)/Odeon (Greece)/Praesens-Film (Switzerland).
Personal life
Andrew Scott was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, by his parents, Jim (employment agency staffer) and Nora (art teacher). Scott has two sisters, Sarah and Hannah. Scott attended Gonzaga College and studied acting at the Rathfarnham-based Young People’s Theatre. Scott then studied drama at Trinity College Dublin, subsequently dropping out after six months to start his professional acting career at Dublin’s renowned Abbey Theatre. Scott came out as gay in 2013 at age 37. Scott’s height is 5’ 8”. Scott’s estimated net worth is $10 million.
Andrew Scott Movies
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All of Us Strangers
asAdam
A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with his downstairs neighbor while discovering a mysterious new way to heal from losing his parents 30 years ago.
- 2019 |
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- 2016 |
- 2016 |
Alice Through the Looking Glass
asDr. Addison Bennet
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice is appointed to save her beloved Mad Hatter from deadly grief by travelling back to the past, but this means fatally harming Time himself, the noble clockwork man with the device needed to save the Hatter's family from the Red Queen.
- 2015 |
Victor Frankenstein
asInspector Turpin
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.
- 2015 |
Facts About Andrew Scott
Homophobia: Andrew Scott revealed in 2023 that he had been urged as a young actor not to come out as gay, since it would have been a professional impediment.
Stage Winner: Scott has won ten major awards and eight nominations for his Dublin, London, and New York stage performances from 1998 to the present.
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