Simon Russell Beale has played Napoleon, Churchill, Stalin, the King of Hearts, the Prince of Wales, Galileo, Engels, Schubert Hamlet, Iago, Ariel, Lear and others.
My earliest memories are a mixture of images from Libya, where my parents were stationed for a short while [his father was an army medic], and Worcester Park on the outskirts of London, where they bought their first house. So, a white camel delivering vegetables, a Roman amphitheatre, and sitting on a suburban garden wall, eating cheesecake.
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