Scipio's acting career started in television with leading roles in Some Girls (BBC),[3] As the Bell Rings (Disney) and White Teeth (Channel 4).
[citation needed] In 2020, he played Armando Aretas in the action comedy Bad Boys for Life directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah and starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
Scipio's acting career began when he landed his first role at the age of 9 months in an episode of the Screen One series entitled Bambino Mio, playing the adopted son of Julie Walters.
He continued to act, appearing in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I as ‘Prince Chulalongkorn’ opposite Elaine Paige at the London Palladium.
[9] In January 2021, it was announced that Scipio was cast as Michael Vargas in the upcoming Netflix thriller series Pieces of Her, which is adapted from the Karin Slaughter novel of the same name.