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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.
Andrew Scott
Dr Henry Jekyll / Mr Edward Hyde
for Dr Henry Jekyll / Mr Edward Hyde in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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In the choking yellow fog of 1880s London, Gabriel Utterson (John Simm), a lawyer who suppresses his own desires behind a mask of professional austerity, becomes obsessed with a mystery that defies the law. It begins with a "by-street" door and a story from his cousin Enfield (James McAvoy) about a "damned Juggernaut" named Edward Hyde (Andrew Scott), a man who radiates a sense of unexpressed deformity. The mystery turns personal when Utterson discovers Hyde is the sole beneficiary of his oldest friend, the brilliant Dr. Henry Jekyll (Andrew Scott). As Utterson investigates, the film transitions from a Victorian detective noir into a visceral Gothic horror. He watches as Jekyll - once a "smooth-faced" pillar of society - withers into a reclusive shadow, haunted by a "chemical" addiction that is actually a spiritual rot. The tension snaps on an October night when Sir Danvers Carew (Charles Dance) is brutally beaten to death. Witnessed by a terrified Maid (Jenna Ortega), the murder launches a clinical manhunt led by Inspector Newcomen (Elijah Wood). As the evidence mounts, Jekyll’s world collapses. His rationalist peer, Dr. Lanyon (Oscar Isaac), is shocked into a literal death after witnessing Hyde drink an elixir and "melt" back into the features of Henry Jekyll. In the claustrophobic climax, Utterson and the loyal butler Poole (Graham McTavish) take an axe to the laboratory door. They find not a man, but a "half-thing" grotesque in Jekyll’s oversized clothes. Through recovered letters, the truth is revealed: Jekyll’s attempt to cage his "evil urges" only gave them a name and a body. As the serum's salt ran impure, the masks merged. "The Shadow of the Door" is a sensory assault on the duality of man - a film where the greatest horror isn't the monster in the alley, but the one staring back from the lawyer's own mirror.
