Dougray Scott

Leonardo DiCaprio is the frontrunner to play Alan Turing in a forthcoming biopic of the British mathematics genius and codebreaker, reports Deadline. On Tuesday, Warner Bros bought a script by first-time screenwriter Graham Moore that centres on the second world war hero. Turing was largely written out of 2001's Enigma, perhaps the best-known portrayal of the Bletchley Park codebreakers, even though he was the leading figure at Britain's wartime decryption centre. Michael Apted's film...Read Full Story

19th Raindance Film Festival Line-Up Announced Yesterday morning saw the unveiling of the line-up for the 19th annual Raindance Film Festival. 98 features from 38 countries will be screened from the 28th of September to the 9th of October at the Apollo Cinema in Piccadilly, making this the largest Raindance to date, and well worthy of the title of Europe’s leading independent film festival. Specialising in edgy and alternative films, many of which are by first-time filmmakers, the festival...Read Full Story

Dougray Scott 's Last Passenger marks the second script greenlit with the help of cash from U.K. studio facilities operator Pinewood Shepperton via its low-budget movie investment fund. Written and directed by Omid Nooshin, the project is billed as a thriller and details the story of a doctor who finds himself on a runaway commuter train and also stars Kara Tointon. Budgeted at just north of £1.2 million ($2.5 million), the movie is also bankrolled by Future Film and the BFI Film Fund. Pathe...Read Full Story

Dougray Scott aims high with a unique golf challenge at The May Fair Hotel on Tuesday June 7th On the evening of Tuesday 7th June, actor Dougray Scott officially launches the 2011 Leuka Mini Masters celebrity golf tournament with a very special event in the Penthouse Suite of The May Fair Hotel. The Penthouse Putt-Off will see celebrities and guests attempting to win prizes by holing out on London's highest putting green installed on the balcony of The May Fair Hotel's luxurious penthouse...Read Full Story

Dougray has been doing interviews to promote Father And Son which premiers on Monday, June 7 on STV and ITV1 in the UK. It will air over four consecutive nights. He talked about his latest role in Father and Son , but also revealed a few details about his upcoming films. You can read the full interview over at The Daily Record . ...In Father And Son, which also stars Sophie Okonedo and Stephen Rea, Dougray plays ex-criminal Michael O'Connor who returns to Manchester from a quiet life in...Read Full Story

Dougray Scott has been speaking to education charity FILMCLUB, as part of its nationwide campaign ‘Power of Film’, which highlights films huge capacity to educate and inspire young people. The actor - whose numerous film credits include Enigma , Ripley’s Game , Mission Impossible 2 , Dark Water and Ever After - spoke to 150 young film fans, who are members of the film club school scheme, about his extensive film career, what inspired him to be an actor, what it was like to work in the film...Read Full Story

Dougray Scott on Playing Arthur Miller and Sir Matt Busby Dougray Scott admits he jumped at the chance to star as one of his real-life idols. The Glenrothes-born actor was thrilled to land the role of legendary Scots football manager Sir Matt Busby in BBC Film, United , which dramatises the events surrounding the Munich air disaster on February 6, 1958. Read more Marilyn explores relationship between Marilyn Monroe and Simone Signoret Fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an...Read Full Story

Dougray Scott talks to Barbara Hodgson on the set of a new drama about the Munich air disaster filmed in the North East. It was a defining moment in football history. When a plane carrying Manchester United players crashed on its third take-off attempt on a slush-covered runway in Munich in February, 1958 it brought to a tragic end the best team the great Matt Busby was ever to manage. Most people know about the tragedy in which eight of the young, hugely talented players – nicknamed the...Read Full Story

According to TV Guide Alan Cumming is set to return to CBS' The Good Wife as a series regular. He is currently guest starring as Eli Gold, a campaign manager for State Attorney Peter Florrick ( Chris Noth ). Dougray Scott was recently cast in The Quinn-Tuplets , another CBS drama. The show is about "five adult quintuplets (Amber Tamblyn, Anna Chlumsky, David Giantoli, Kenneth Mitchell and Sam Witwer), whose entire childhood was documented on TV." Dougray Scott will play, Michael Adatto, the...Read Full Story

Back in February Dougray Scott had reportedly been cast in Irvine Welsh 's first feature film The Magnificent Eleven , an adaptation of The Magnificent Seven . Welsh now reveals that the film might be filmed this summer: “We’re hoping to shoot in the summer and are fairly positive about it,” said Welsh, who is currently fine-tuning the screenplay while also writing his latest novel. “I’m pretty much tied up with the book and can’t make it out to Cannes, where we are planning to officially...Read Full Story