Five must-see Dougray Scott films and where to watch them - including Ripley's Game

There was a familiar face at the head of New York’s Tartan Day Parade at the weekend.

Dougray Scott is one of Scotland's most successful actors.

Actor Dougray Scott became the latest Grand Marshall of the event that celebrates all things Scottish - following in the footsteps of the likes of Billy Connolly, Sean Connery, Karen Gillan and Sam Heughan.

If it has inspired you to catch up on some of the great films he has starred in, 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, a law-abiding art framer who gets dragged into Ripley’s criminal underworld courtesy of a misjudged insult, an art forgery scheme and Ray Winstone’s typically gruff British gangster.

Mission: Impossible II (Paramount+)

Scott plays the baddie in this slightly underpowered, but still great fun, first-of-many sequels in the Tom Cruise mega-franchise. 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. It’s best not to think about the plot and just enjoy the balletic action set-pieces engineered by director Johh Woo.

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), with Drew Barrymore is the young woman forced to work as a servant by her cruel step family.

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, who flies back to America leaving his wife to be escorted by Eddie Redmayne’s infatuated filmmaker.

Sea Fever (Disney+)

This little-seen Irish sci-fi horror was released in 2019, just before the global pandemic, and often seems spookily prescient of what is to come. It 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.