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Simon Russell Beale

“My career looks like this marvellous plan, but it was all an accident”
Simon Russell Beale as AE Housman in The Invention of Love at Hampstead Theatre, London. Photo: Helen Murray
Simon Russell Beale as AE Housman in The Invention of Love at Hampstead Theatre, London. Photo: Helen Murray
Having played parts from Prospero to Stalin, Hamlet and now the poet AE Housman, Simon Russell Beale is convinced he has one of the best jobs in the world. Why? Every role offers a new area for intellectual investigation, he says

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