Nationality British | Years active 1993-present | |
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Awards ScreenActorsGuildAwards EnsembleTVDrama 2010–2019 TV shows | ||
Andrew scarborough actor
Andrew Scarborough is an English actor and is most widely known for his recent role on screen as Tim Drewe in the multi BAFTA and Emmy award-winning Downton Abbey. He is also known for his other roles on screen in Hearts and Bones, The Bible, Jamaica Inn, Hidden and Bad Girls. Andrew is also a theatre actor, performing in many of London's major theatres, including in the West End, and many provincial theatres in the UK and in Berlin.
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Andrew scarborough actor
Personal life
Scarborough was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. He has a sister, Victoria Scarborough. He went to Harrogate Grammar School.
Career
Scarborough trained at the Webber Douglas academy of dramatic art and made his professional debut on stage at the Harrogate Theatre in three plays, beginning with The Government Inspector as Dobchinsky, then A Midsummer Night's Dream as Oberon, and lastly as the Genie of the Lamp in the British 'panto' version of Aladdin. He then went on to play Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and from there played Renaldo in the 1995 London Almeida theatre production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes.
Andrew made his television debut on the BBC's popular medical drama Casualty. He then went on to play roles in many TV dramas, including The Bill (ITV), Streets of Gold (S4C), Heartbeat (ITV), Touching Evil (ITV) and Silent Witness (BBC1). He also made a guest appearance in one of Britain's most highly regarded and favorite soaps Coronation Street as "love rat" Harvey Reuben.
His film debut was in a Hallmark production of Jason and the Argonauts.
He then went on to starring roles as Kevin Spiers in ITV's Bad Girls, Stewart Diamond in Channel 5's Suburban Shootout, Mark in The Innocent, a film for ITV, Michael Owen in the BBC comedy drama Hearts and Bones which earned him rave reviews, Joshua in The Bible (History Channel), Magistrate Bassat in Jamaica Inn (BBC1) and Tim Drewe in Downton Abbey (ITV) which earned him more rave reviews.