Irish actor Andrew Scott was BOTD in 1976. Born in Dublin, he studied drama at Trinity College Dublin before leaving to join the Abbey Theatre. After several high profile theatrical roles, he relocated to London in 1998, taking small part in the TV miniseries Band of Brothers and John Adams and starred in the original London production of Mike Bartlett’s play Cock, playing one-third of a bisexual love triangle. He became more widely known as the sociopathic villain Moriarty in the 2012 TV series Sherlock, a modern-day remake of Arthur Conan-Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, winning a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor. He played a Welsh gay rights activist in the 2014 film Pride and MI5 boss “C” in the James Bond film Spectre, and won acclaim for a 2017 London stage production of Shakespeare‘s Hamlet. His celebrity exploded in orgasmic proportions in 2019 when he starred as Hot Priest in TV comedy Fleabag, becoming the year’s most surprising sex symbol. Returning to the stage, he starred in a queer-inflected London production of Noël Coward‘s “Present Laughter”, and the one-man show Vanya in which he played eight characters from Anton Chekhov’s play Uncle Vanya. In 2023, he broke hearts as a lonely 40-something gay man who has a passionate affair with his younger neighbour in Andrew Haigh‘s film All of Us Strangers. He also won acclaim for his role as gay sociopath Tom Ripley in the 2024 TV serial adaptation of Patricia Highsmith‘s novel The Talented Mr Ripley. Scott was in a 10 year relationship with Pride screenwriter and playwright Stephen Beresford, ending in 2019. His current relationship status is unknown.