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Andrew Scarborough in Morocco, taking a rest from filming
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Born | Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England |
Nationality | British |
Years active | 1993-present |
Notable work | Downton Abbey, Hearts and Bones |
Television | Spooks, Rome, Suburban Shootout, Downton Abbey |
Awards | ScreenActorsGuildAwards EnsembleTVDrama 2010–2019 |
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.
Scarborough was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. He has a sister, Victoria Scarborough. He went to Harrogate Grammar School.
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.