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There was a familiar face at the head of New York’s Tartan Day Parade at the weekend. Actor Dougray Scott became the latest Grand Marshall of the event. Here are five highlights from his career.
Ripley’s Game (Apple TV): This is arguably the best of the numerous films and television series to date to follow the adventures of author Patricia Highsmith’s con artist antihero Tom Ripley. John Malkovich takes on the lead role, while Scott plays his neighbour.
Mission: Impossible II (Paramount+): Scott plays the baddie in this slightly underpowered, but still great fun, first-of-many sequels in the Tom Cruise megafranchise. Famously the filming overran, meaning that Scott had to step down from playing Wolverine in the first X-men film.hugh Jackman stepped in, and the rest is history.
Ever After (Disney+): Inspired by the fairy tale Cinderella, this fun romantic period drama strips away the magical elements of the original and presents it as historical fiction set in Renaissance-era France.
Scott plays the Prince Charming character (Prince Henry of France in this case).
My Week With Marilyn (Apple TV+): This wonderful Oscar-nominated film is set in a week during the shooting of the 1957 London-set film The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) and Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). Dougray Scott plays Marilyn’s playwright husband Arthur Miller.
Sea Fever (Disney+):
This little-seen Irish sci-fi horror follows the crew of a marooned fishing trawler who find themselves attacked by a parasitic infection. Scott plays the husband of the captain of the stricken boat, in a tense and claustrophobic shocker.