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"Vinnie Jones is to appear in a new episode of Sherlock Holmes drama Elementary. The Snatch actor will play &amp;#039;M.&amp;#039; in the CBS procedural&amp;#039;s 12th episode, a British criminal billed as &amp;quot;Sherlock&amp;#039;s greatest enemy&amp;quot;.      In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&amp;#039;s original stories, Holmes was plagued by his nemesis Professor Moriarty - the villainous character debuted in 1893 short story &amp;#039;The Adventure of the Final Problem&amp;#039;. Moriarty has previously been portrayed by actors such as Eric Porter in ITV&amp;#039;s Sherlock Holmes series, by Andrew Scott in the BBC&amp;#039;s Sherlock and by Jared Harris in 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. &amp;gt; Elementary: Who should play Moriarty in the CBS drama? Jones - who has not been officially confirmed to be playing the character - is best known for his roles in such films as 2000&amp;#039;s Gone in Sixty Seconds and 2006&amp;#039;s X-Men: The Last Stand. His past television credits include a guest role on Chuck and a recurring role on short-lived superhero drama The Cape. Elementary continues on Thursday at 10/9c on CBS and returns to Sky Living in the UK in February. &amp;gt; Elementary exec teases Moriarty: &amp;#039;He won&amp;#039;t be comic book villain&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Elementary exec teases Moriarty debut: &amp;#039;He&amp;#039;s spider in web of crime&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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