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| honorific_prefix = | name = Christopher Simpson | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Christopher Crawford Gatsinzi Simpson | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1975}} | birth_place = Dublin, Republic of Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | residence = London, England | nationality = Irish | other_names = | citizenship = British | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = {{flat list |
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}} | occupation = | instrument = Vocals | years_active = 2008–2009 | label = | associated_acts = | website = | notable_instruments = }} | website = {{URL|http://www.christophersimpson.net/}} | footnotes = }} Christopher Crawford Gatsinzi Simpson (born 1975) is an Irish-born British actor of Irish-Greek-Rwandan descent. He played Karim in the film adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane. Early lifeSimpson was born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. His father is Irish and his mother was of Greek-Rwandan descent.[1] His father met his mother in Rwanda whilst training to be a teacher. When Simpson was a child he visited Rwanda with his mother.[2] His mother's first language was Kinyarwanda. Simpson lived in Dublin until he was six years old. After his parents divorced, he moved to London with his mother and his sister, Fiona, where he has lived ever since.[3][4] When Simpson was at primary school, he began attending drama classes on Thursday evenings[5] with an amateur dramatics club.[2] Acting careerIn 2002, Simpson played twins, Magid and Millat, in White Teeth. In 2003, he starred in Second Generation, and appeared in State of Play. In 2003, Simpson played a supporting role in Code 46.[6] In 2004, he played the role of Hassan Sabbah in The Legend of Omar Khayyam.[7] In 2005, he appeared in Chromophobia.[6] In 2006, he played a supporting role in Mischief Night. In 2007, he played the lead role of Karim in the film adaptation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane,[8] and a supporting role in Exitz.[7] Simpson had one week to learn the part of Karim for Brick Lane,.[8][9][10] In 2008, Simpson was a British Independent Film Awards jury member.[8] In 2006, Simpson played the role of Dionysus in Conall Morrison's The Bacchae of Baghdad (an updated version of Euripides's play The Bacchae) at the Abbey Theatre.[2] In 2011, he 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 role of Sebastian in Bryony Lavery's adaptation of Brideshead Revisited at the English Touring Theatre and UK National Tour.[15] Music career{{Main|Very Present Tense}}In 2008, whilst he was artist-in-residence with creative arts group Metal[8] Simpson completed a song cycle, Very Present Tense. He wrote it over a number of years in response to the death of his mother. The songs which reference musical idioms, including blues, jazz and Rwandan folk, reflecting his Rwandan and Irish family heritage,[16] The album was developed in collaboration with composer, Tom Havelock.[17] On 8 August 2008, the song cycle premiered at the arts hub in Edge Hill Station pavilion,[18][19] during the Liverpool European Capital of Culture.[20] On 29 September 2009, he performed the work for the second time with Metal at the Village Green Festival, this time working with a group of musicians from Southend. Simpson then worked on recording the work.[21] Other workIn 2001, Simpson made a documentary for BBC Radio 4 called Other,[3] exploring the identities of people who have parents of different origins and have grown up in a culture belonging to neither parent.[20] Simpson has narrated audio books for Slumdog Millionaire (originally published as Vikas Swarup's Q & A), E. M. Forster's A Passage to India and Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia.[22] Personal lifeIn 1996, Simpson's mother died, Simpson and his sister returned to Rwanda to bury her ashes.[3] FilmographyFilm
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|location= |work= |publisher=Liverpool Echo|date=6 August 2008|accessdate=1 May 2013}} 20. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/biography/christopher_simpson/|title=Christopher Simpson|publisher=Bush Theatre|date=|accessdate=1 May 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417220255/http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/biography/christopher_simpson/|archivedate=17 April 2014|df=dmy-all}} 21. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.metalculture.com/archive/christopher-simpson.html|title=Christopher Simpson|publisher=Metal|date= |accessdate=1 May 2013}} 22. ^{{cite news |last=Kerns|first=Michelle|title=Interested in 'Slumdog Millionaire?' 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