[5] In 1996, he created the leading role in The Prince's Play, a translation and adaptation by Tony Harrison of Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse, for the National Theatre, London, 1996.

[6] In 1997, he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his role in the Yasmina Reza play Art, in which he appeared with Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay at Wyndham's Theatre.

[7] In 2008 Stott starred in another West End production of a Reza play, this time God of Carnage, alongside Tamsin Greig, Janet McTeer and Ralph Fiennes at the Gielgud Theatre.

[8] Stott appeared in BBC series Secret Army (1977),[5] The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (King Lear, 1982),[5] and Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986).

[9] 2006 saw him take over the title character in detective series Rebus,[1] a television adaptation of the Ian Rankin novels which had previously starred John Hannah.

[9] However, he has had occasional starring roles in the cinema, most notably opposite Billy Connolly and Iain Robertson in The Debt Collector (1999),[9] and Plunkett and Macleane of the same year.