Andrew Schofield

Andrew Schofield is an English actor from Kirkby, Lancashire, who began as a teenager, cast at 15 in Willy Russell's Play for Today Death of a Young, Young Man, and starred as the Narrator in the 1983 premiere of Russell's musical Blood Brothers at the Liverpool Playhouse and in its West End transfer. Later came the role of George at the Old Vic in Of Mice and Men. On film he is best known as Johnny Rotten in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy (1986), played Les for Terence Davies in Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), and was Carlo in Revengers Tragedy (2002). His biggest television role was Franny Scully in Alan Bleasdale's 1984 series Scully, and he also appeared in Bleasdale's GBH and Jake's Progress and in the 1999 Oliver Twist. He won the 2008 Scouseology Award for Theatre and sang on Blood Brothers' original cast recording.