Dougray Scott Biography

Stephen Dougray Scott (born 26 November 1965), better known as Dougray Scott (), is a Scottish actor.

Early life

Scott was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, the son of Elma, a nurse, and Alan Scott, an actor and salesperson. He attended Auchmuty High School. Adopting his stage name from his grandmother's surname, "Dougray", he enrolled in a foundation course in drama before going on to attend the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff from 1984 to 1987; here, he earned the college's Most Promising Drama Student award. In 1988, he moved to London.

Career

Scott began his acting career in national theatre, television, and puppet shows. He appeared in his first role on the television series Soldier Soldier and made his film debut in Twin Town. His first major film roles were as Prince Henry in Ever After and the hero in the film adaptation of the Robert Harris novel Enigma. In 2000, he signed up to play the villain in Mission: Impossible II (hand-picked by star Tom Cruise) but was also due to play Wolverine in the feature film version of X-Men. When Mission: Impossible II went over schedule, Scott was replaced by Hugh Jackman in X-Men.

After the 2002 release of Die Another Day, Scott was a frontrunner to replace Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. Despite the numerous reports that Eon Productions was leaning towards naming Scott as the new Bond in the 007 adventure Casino Royale, the role eventually went to Daniel Craig. In January 2006, he appeared in the miniseries The Ten Commandments as Moses. He also appeared in the NBC series Heist, which aired in March 2006 for five episodes. From 2006 until 2007, he starred in the third season of Desperate Housewives as Teri Hatcher's character's new love interest. In 2007, he played the primary antagonist in the film Hitman, based on the popular video game. He appeared in the title role(s) of a modern re-telling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In May 2009, it was announced that he was to play ex-con Michael O' Connor in the new RT-ITV drama Father & Son.

Scott starred in The Day of the Triffids. The drama was broadcast in December 2009 as part of the BBC 1 Christmas schedule. In 2011, Scott featured in the film Love's Kitchen alongside his wife Claire Forlani, who played his love interest in the film. On the opening weekend in the UK it took just 121 in June 2011. In April 2011, Scott portrayed football manager Matt Busby in the BBC TV drama United, which was centred on the Munich air disaster of 1958, in which Busby was badly injured but survived. Busby's family were reportedly "incensed" by Scott's portrayal, with Busby's son commenting that his father's character "had the appearance of a gangster rather than a football manager" and wore an overcoat and trilby hat instead of a tracksuit, despite Busby famously being the first "tracksuit" manager of the post-World War II era. In 2013, he guest starred as para-psychological researcher/ghost hunter (and War Hero) Alec Palmer in the Doctor Who episode "Hide" alongside Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman and Jessica Raine.

Scott signed up to play the main primary villain in Taken 3 (hand-picked by star Liam Neeson) in 2015.

In March 2016, Scott became the voice of Orby in adverts for British oil and gas company BP.

In April 2016, Scott appeared in the second-seaaon of Fear the Walking Dead playing the character Thomas Abigail, the business partner and lover of Strand.

Personal life

Scott is the father of twins, Eden and Gabriel Trevis Scott (b. 1998), with former wife Sarah Trevis, to whom he was married from 2000 to 2005. On 8 June 2007, he married actress Claire Forlani in Italy.

Scott is an avid fan of Hibernian Football Club and a celebrity supporter of the British Red Cross and WaterAid.

Dougray and Claire have a son Milo Thomas Scott born December 27th 2014

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Princess Caraboo	Dragoon captain
1995	Soldier Soldier	Major Rory Taylor
1995	Highlander: The Series	Warren Cochrane	Series 4, Episode 18: "Through a Glass, Darkly"
1996	The Crow Road	Lewis McHoan
1997	Regeneration	Captain Robert Graves
1997	The Place of the Dead	Lance Corporal Richard Mayfield
1997	Twin Town	Terry Walsh
1998	Ever After	Prince Henry
1998	Deep Impact	Eric Vennekor
1999	Gregory's Two Girls	Fraser Rowan
1999	This Year's Love	Cameron
1999	Faeries	Faery Prince	Voice
2000	Mission: Impossible II	Sean Ambrose
2000	The Miracle Maker	John
2000	Arabian Nights	Shahryar Amin
2001	Enigma	Tom Jericho
2002	Ripley's Game	Trevanny
2003	The Poet	Andrei
2003	To Kill a King	Thomas Fairfax
2004	The Truth About Love	Archie
2004	Things To Do Before You're 30	Cass
2005	Dark Water	Kyle Williams
2006	The Ten Commandments	Moses
2006	Perfect Creature	Silus
2006	Heist	Mickey O'Neil
2006-2007	Desperate Housewives	Ian Hainsworth	18 episodes
2007	Hitman	Mike Whittier
2007	The Donald Gray Show
2008	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
2008	New Town Killers	Alistair
2009	False Witness	Ian Porter
2009	The Day of the Triffids	Dr. Bill Masen
2009	Father & Son	Michael O'Connor
2010	There Be Dragons	Robert
2010	Love's Kitchen	Rob Haley
2011	My Week with Marilyn	Arthur Miller
2011	United	Matt Busby
2012	Sinbad	Father La Stessa
2013	Death Race 3: Inferno	Niles York/Frankenstein	DVD movie
2013	Doctor Who	Alec Palmer	Episode: "Hide"
2013	Strike Back	James Leatherby	Season 4
2013	Last Passenger	Lewis Shaler
2013	The Wrong Mans	Walker
2013-2014	Hemlock Grove	Dr. Norman Godfrey	A Netflix Original Series
2014	Taken 3	Stuart St. John
2015	The Vatican Tapes	Roger Holmes
2016	Division 19		Filming
2016	Fear the Walking Dead	Thomas Abigail	Season 2, filming