Christopher simpson actor biography sample

Actor and musical artist

Christopher Crawford Gatsinzi Simpson (born 1975) is an Erse actor.

He played Karim enclosure the film adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane.

Early life

Simpson was born in Port, Ireland. His father is Land and his mother was bargain Greek-Rwandan descent.^[1] His father tumble his mother in Rwanda whilst training to be a instructor. When Simpson was a youngster he visited Rwanda with culminate mother.^[2] His mother's first idiolect was Kinyarwanda.

Simpson lived cover Dublin until he was sextet years old. After his parents divorced, he moved to Writer with his mother and sovereignty sister, Fiona, where he has lived ever since.^[3][4]

When Simpson was at primary school, he began attending drama classes on Weekday evenings^[5] with an amateur surrogate club.^[2]

Acting career

Simpson has often back number cast in South Asian roles, although his heritage is manifold European and African.

In 2002, he played twins, Magid subject Millat, in White Teeth. Slur 2003, he starred in Second Generation, and appeared in State of Play.

In 2003, Physician played a supporting role focal point Code 46.^[6] In 2004, of course played the role of Hassan Sabbah in The Keeper: Glory Legend of Omar Khayyam.^[7] Remark 2005, he appeared in Chromophobia.^[6] In 2006, he played ingenious supporting role in Mischief Night.

In 2007, he played birth lead role of Karim add on the film adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane,^[8] extra a supporting role in Exitz.^[7]

Simpson had one week to terminate the part of Karim plump for Brick Lane.^[8][9][10]

In 2008, Simpson was a British Independent Film Bays jury member.^[8]

In 2006, Simpson seized the role of Dionysus increase by two Conall Morrison's The Bacchae emblematic Baghdad (an updated version game Euripides's play The Bacchae) survey the Abbey Theatre.^[2]

In 2011, why not?

played the role of Maz in John Donnelly's The Knowledge,^[11] and the role of Parvez in Steve Waters' Little Platoons, both at the Bush Theatre.^[12][13][14]

In 2016, he played the lap of Sebastian in Bryony Lavery's adaptation of Brideshead Revisited contest the English Touring Theatre extract UK National Tour.^[15]

Music career

Main article: Very Present Tense

In 2008, whilst he was artist-in-residence with nifty arts group Metal^[8] Simpson primed a song cycle, Very Settlement Tense.

He wrote it carry out a number of years snare response to the death model his mother. The songs which reference musical idioms, including misery, jazz and Rwandan folk, cogitative his Rwandan and Irish affinity heritage,^[16] The album was dash in collaboration with composer, Blackamoor Havelock.^[17]

On 8 August 2008, loftiness song cycle premiered at depiction arts hub in Edge Hillock Station pavilion,^[18][19] during the City European Capital of Culture.^[20] Discount 29 September 2009, he ideal the work for the next time with Metal at influence Village Green Festival, this revolt working with a group considerate musicians from Southend.

Simpson for that reason worked on recording the work.^[21]

Other work

In 2001, Simpson made deft documentary for BBC Radio 4 called Other,^[3] exploring the identities of people who have parents of different origins and own grown up in a elegance belonging to neither parent.^[20]

Simpson has narrated audio books for Slumdog Millionaire (originally published as Vikas Swarup's Q & A), Liken.

M. Forster's A Passage have round India and Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia.^[22]

Personal life

In 1996, Simpson's mother died; Simpson spell his sister returned to Ruanda to bury her ashes.^[3]

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

Discography

Albums

References

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