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Andrew Simpson (actor)
Actor from Ireland
Andrew Gerard Simpson (born 1 January 1989) is an actor from Northern Ireland. He was spotted while performing in a festival by talent scout Patrick Duncan, who was working for Aisling Walsh, the director of Song for a Raggy Boy. He is best known for appearing in the film Notes on a Scandal.
Early life
Simpson was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, and grew up in the village of Fahan in neighbouring County Donegal, Republic of Ireland.[1] However, he was educated in Derry, and attended Foyle College. His mother sent her four children to Sandra Biddle's speech and drama school in the city. Simpson received four A grades at A-level and went on to attend the London School of Economics in 2010. After completing his law degree, he returned to Northern Ireland, and worked at a building site while continuing to audition.[2]
Career
Simpson's first film appearance was as Gerard Peters 458 in Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), a story about an Irish reform school. In 2006, he appeared opposite Cate Blanch
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10 years ago I stumbled into a career that I have loved ever since. Coaching and mentoring student-athletes to become better in all aspects of life. Not just as an athlete, but as a person. 2016 I recognized my efforts were short-sighted. "Get them bigger, stronger, faster, and mentally tougher." Sprinkle in a little motivation and inspiration and call it a day. One morning I received a phone call from a frantic parent-- "My daughter can't get out of her own head. She self-sabotages on the court when she makes a mistake. If coach pulls her she loses her cool. Can you help her!?" Essentially, her daughter was only equipped to handle life when life was going her way. I realized right then and there that even the kids with 4.0 GPA's who were All-American athletes are subject to the same thing. They need life lessons. They need mindset coaching. They need to be coached from the heart so that they develop and blossom from the inside out. They need love-powered mentor-leaders to pour into them and to be fully committed to seeing them thrive. When that happe
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Andrew Simpson, also known as Bart Simpson after the popular cartoon character, was known as one of the world’s best sailors in the Laser and Finn classes but for two Olympics running his role was limited to that of training partner to two men, Iain Percy in 2000 and Ben Ainslie in 2004, who both became Olympic champion. In 2008, after both men had met with mixed results in other boats, he teamed up with Iain Percy to campaign for Olympic selection in the Star class. The two men had been close friends since boyhood but they struggled in their early events and placed 52nd at the World Championships in 2008. By Beijing the combination clicked together and they won the Olympic title in a desperately close competition against the Swedish duo. The pair continued their successful ways by winning a silver medal at the 2009 European Championships and a gold medal at the World Championships in 2010. Their medal-winning streak was broken in 2011 when Percy suffered a back injury that led to their withdrawal from the World Championships. The duo narrowly failed to defend their Olympic title
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