Scot Williams was born on the 29th of November 1972 in Liverpool. He grew up around Penny Lane and explained in 2014 that he wore trench coats and motorcycle boots as a
young unknown actor, and would go to meet like-minded people with a
similar taste in fashion at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool where he worked as an usher selling ice creams for £8 per
shift, but states that his real payment was the ability to also see
the theatrical performances. It was this early exposure to acting that
served as an inspiration for his acting aspirations. In the 1990s he was encouraged to join the Everyman’s Youth Theatre and remembers 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream', which they took to Czechoslovakia, and that they gave him a budget to do his own
plays. He was a professional writer, within weeks of leaving
school and the youngest ever writer to be produced at the
Liverpool Playhouse. He'd written 'Growing Young' when he was 16 and was commissioned to write the play at the age of 17 by the prestigious Liverpool
Playhouse, as part of their then 'youth arts' project, and was encouraged
to join their youth theatre and direct the production too. It was a
great success and at the age of 18 he had formed his own theatre company 'The Herd Of Brutes' and had started churning out stage plays. By the age of 22 he had written seven plays and produced a few of them himself. Acting in his own productions, mainly as a way to
keep down costs, is how he became an actor and just twelve months later he was plucked from the street
by John Hubbard and cast in a major feature Film 'Backbeat' (1994) playing Pete Best, and the
acting gates opened. Subsequently, he later discovered that he was a distant relative of the late Alun Owen, who in 1965 received an Academy Award nomination for his Beatles screenplay 'A Hard Day's Night'.
In 1995 he made his professional stage debut playing the lead role of Shaun Caine to rave reviews in the Jonathan Harvey play 'Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club', which toured the UK with the English Touring Theatre before transferring to The West End's Donmar Warehouse and Criterion Theatre, Piccadily. Then in 1996 he played the pivotal role of Joe Glover in the multi award winning television docu-drama 'Hillsborough', written by Jimmy McGovern and directed by the BAFTA and Emmy award winner Charles McDougall, It went on to win dozens of awards around the world, including the 1997 Best Single drama BAFTA award. That same year he starred in the TV series 'Springhill' (1996-97), conceived by Paul Abbott and Frank Cottrell Boyce and written by Russell T. Davis. Scot then appeared as a regular in two seasons of the Police Drama 'Liverpool One' (1998-99) for ITV as Patrick Callaghan, a one legged heroin addicted informer, as well as playing the role of Buddy alongside Lisa Stansfield, Rita Tushingham, Tom Bell and Alexie Sayle in the musical comedy 'Swing' (1999). He reprised his role of Pete Best in the drama 'In His Life - The John Lennon Story' (2000) for NBC and then for the BBC he was in both 'Nice Guy Eddie' (2002) and 'Merseybeat' (2003-04). 2003-04 also saw him feature in in a trilogy of films written and directed by the iconic film maker Peter Greenaway, entitled 'The Tulse Luper Suitcases', the first of which 'The Moab Story', was nominated for the coveted Palme D'or at Cannes. The following year he played the lead role of Patrick Donovan, alongside Rutger Hauer and Malcolm McDowell in an adaptation of the Planeta Prize winning novel 'La Tempesta' (2004), as well as a return to the stage in Chris Honer's award-winning production of the Arthur Miller classic 'All My Sons' at Manchester's Library Theatre. Scot then starred as the Catholic Priest Father Melia, in Heidi Thomas' period drama 'Lilies' (2007) for the BBC, as well as the regular role of Tom Tyrell in the Channel 4 drama series 'Meadwlands' (2007), alongside Tom Hardy, Felicity Jones and David Morrissey. In 2008 he then starred in 'Clubbed', an adaptation of The Sunday Times Best Seller 'Watch My Back' by the BAFTA winning writer Geoff Thompson and also in 'The Crew', the adaptation of Kevin Sampson's best selling novel 'Outlaws', in which he played the lead role of Ged Brennan alongside Stephen Graham. 2009 saw him play the role of Irish ex-priest Sheamy O'Brien alongside Cara Seymour in Maeve Murphy's 'Beyond The Fire', of which he was also an associate producer. The film won 'Best Film' at the 2009 London Independent Film Awards and at The Garden State Film Festival in New Jersey. That same year he appeared in the film 'Dead Man Running', alongside Brenda Blethin, Danny Dyer and 50 Cent. He also starred with Jesse Bradford, Sienna Guillory and Steven Berkoff in the thriller 'Perfect Life' (2010). In the slick noir thriller' 'Hard Boiled Swets' (2012) he starred alongside Ian Hart, Paul Freeman and Elizabeth Berrington
'Redirected' (2014), the movie he shot with Vinnie Jones in the
Baltic state back in 2012, is now available on DVD. "It’s
become such a cult hit over there,” says Scot. "Emilis Velyvis was a
famous director anyway, but
it’s surpassed anything. It’s done better than 'Star Wars' did there.
Basically it’s the biggest grossing film in Lithuanian cinema history.
Quite remarkable. It made $4-$5m in Lithuania alone and it only has a
population of 3m people. Apparently I'm a superstar in Lithuania now. I
expect I should move
there and open supermarkets. I am the Lithuanian Norman Wisdom!" He has
appeared as two characters in 'Casualty' (2006-13), 'Doctors' (2017-20)
and in 5 episodes of 'Coronation Street' (2020) as Aaron Faraday, Shona
Platt's support worker as she recovered from a brain injury.
In
2020 Scot guested in the iconic television series Coronation Street, in
it's 60th anniversary year and in 2021 he featured in the Action
Thriller 'Memory' alongside Liam Neeson, Monica Bellucci and Guy Pearce
for director Martin Campbell. More recently he has been in an 8 part drama 'Unwanted' (2023) for Sky, written
by Stefano Bises (Gomorrah) and directed by the Oscar nominated Oliver
Hirschbeigel (Downfall).
As a writer he has notched up ten stage/screen plays to date, receiving one or two award nominations along the way. They are 'Growing Young' (1992), 'The Herd of Brutes' (1992), 'Get Another Lover Mother' (1993), 'The Plastic Daft' (1995), 'Level Minus 99' (1995), 'The Guilty Guessed' (1995), 'Huggermugger' (1997), 'Twenty Seven' (2005), 'Stranger' (2008), 'A Bard Day's Night/book' (2011), a comedy stage musical co-written alongside his Backbeat co-star Chris O'Neill and 'Hope' (2013). In September 2024, Scot directed the World stage premiere of 'TWO OF US' to critical acclaim. Written by Barry Sloane, Richard Short and Mark Stanfield and based on the screenplay by Mark Stanfield, it premiered at The Watford Palace Theatre, before a transfer to HOME Manchester. Six years after the bitter break up of 'The Beatles', Paul paid an unannounced visit to John’s apartment in New York City, it would be the final time they ever met. This ruminates on what may have happened, truths that may have been spoken and traumas that may have been shared. Their apologies and eulogies, what was said and what was left unsaid. It is the story of two working class boys who loved each other.
see also :- http://www.thefootballvoice.com/2025/02/a-history-of-liverpool-thespians_12.html
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