Ripper Street Season 2: 7 Actors Who Should Guest Star

by Stu Whittaker

1. Andrew Scott

Scott is best known as Sherlock Holmes arch-enemy Jim Moriarty

Probably the best portrayal of a villain since Heath Ledger's turn as the Joker in The Dark Knight, Andrew Scott created a vivid, unpredictable, charismatic, nightmare vision of Sherlock's nemesis, Moriarty. Andrew Scott won the 2012 British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role, he is the perfect villain, heinous and yet, in a quaint way, appealing and likeable.

Scott is keen not to become typecast, though, having starred in The Fuse, a gritty BBC four-parter, playing a melancholic detective opposite Christopher Eccleston, a pitch perfect performance as Paul McCartney in 'Lennon Naked', an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's The Scapegoat, in which he plays a "terribly, terribly posh person with a side parting" and this year he will appear in 'The Stag', an Irish comedy drama about a stag weekend, with himself playing the best-man.

Andrew Scott is a veteran of all of acting's schools, with numerous credits across stage and screen. He is the ideal candidate for a major villain for our heroes at H Division to face, a big bad to span most of a series offering a Moriarty for Ripper Street, hopefully not the same character but conveying the same bone-chilling essence.

If there is anyone I've missed or someone who you would prefer, let me know!

Contributor

I am an aspiring writer and film critic, recently graduated from the University of Exeter with a BA in Film Studies. I spend my free time developing my square eyes watching films and television, reading novels and playing football. You can contact me at sa.whittaker@hotmail.co.uk.