Andrew Scott

'2020 WhatsOnStage Awards Concert' awards, Winners, London, UK 01 Mar 2020

Born on October 21, 1976, in Dublin, Ireland, Andrew Scott has become a prominent figure in the acting world. He gained widespread acclaim, particularly for his role as the charismatic and enigmatic “Hot Priest” in the critically acclaimed series Fleabag, which earned him a Critics’ Choice Television Award.

BAFTA, WhatsOnStage- and Olivier-award winning actor, Andrew Scott’s recent theatre includes VANYA (Duke of York’s Theatre), Three Kings (Old Vic: In Camera), Present Laughter, Design for Living (The Old Vic), Hamlet (Almeida Theatre and Duke of York’s Theatre), The Dazzle (Found111), Birdland (Royal Court), Aristocrats, Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre), Sea Wall (Paines Plough, The Old Vic, Bush Theatre), as well as numerous plays in Dublin, London and New York.

For television his work includes School of Roars, The Pursuit of Love, Ripley, His Dark Materials, Modern Love, Black Mirror: Smithereens, as The Priest in Fleabag, Quacks, as Moriarty in Sherlock, The Town and The Hollow Crown.

His recent films include Strangers, Catherine Called Birdy, Oslo,Sam Mendes 1917, A Dark Place, The Delinquent Season, Hamlet, King Lear, Cognition, Handsome Devil, Denial, Swallows and Amazons, This Beautiful Fantastic, Sam Mendes’ Spectre, Alice: Through the Looking Glass, Frankenstein, Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall, Matthew Warchus’ Pride, (BIFA for Best Supporting Actor), Locke and The Stag.