Andrew Scott is Emmy nominated this yr for taking part in the titular antihero on the Netflix miniseries Ripley. However this isn’t the Irish actor’s first rodeo taking part in a murderous trickster. In 2010, he debuted on the BBC/Masterpiece Theatre’s Sherlock as Jim Moriarty, the archnemesis and unhinged counterpart to the world’s most well-known detective (performed by Benedict Cumberbatch).
Moriarty toyed with Sherlock, sending him on a life-or-death crime-solving scavenger hunt throughout London earlier than practically blowing up him and John Watson at a pool, then entangling the sleuth in an tried theft of the Crown Jewels. All of the whereas, Scott’s efficiency veered unpredictably from calm and composed to uncontrolled screams — in protecting along with his character’s insanity. And the roller-coaster storyline wasn’t over with 2012’s climactic season-two finale “The Reichenbach Fall,” the place Moriarty shot himself in the top as a part of a scheme to blackmail Sherlock into leaping to his dying to avoid wasting his associates.
THR‘s review of season three noted that fans awaited the cliffhanger’s decision with a “kids-on-Christmas-like anticipation” and added: “It does not disappoint.” That season’s finale equally shocked audiences when Moriarty — who was presumed useless — popped up on screens throughout England taunting, “Did you miss me?”
After Sherlock, which gained 9 Emmys in restricted sequence or film classes, Scott’s roles have moved past the villainy that first made him well-known. The actor mentioned on a current THR Roundtable that’s how he wished it, noting, “It always seemed what’s of value is to be able to play as many different notes as you could.” So for each fan whose Andrew Scott touchstone is Moriarty, there’s one other who is aware of him as Fleabag‘s “hot priest,” or perhaps as the rideshare driver grieving the death of his wife in Black Mirror‘s “Smithereens” episode (for which he earned his first Emmy nom), or as the lead in the 2023 feature All of Us Strangers, or as Tom Ripley. It’s good that he’s stored busy — in any other case we’d have missed him.
