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Career
History
Early Life
Becky Simpson
grew up in a creative environment. Her father Dave Simpson is a
professional writer behind such stage plays as Girls Night Out and
Raving Beauties. Her mother Diane Whitley started her career as an
actress, later moving into writing, producing and directing. It was
therefore natural for Becky to follow in their footsteps and she has
always had an interest in the arts. Becky has written short plays,
stories, poetry and films; she took up guitar at 13 and now also plays
drums and bass guitar as well as writing songs, and she had her first
acting role at the age of 8.
Career Successes
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She was given the opportunity to
play the role of Lottie in a radio adaptation of the Little
Princess, which was produced by a friend of the family. Her
parents noticed Becky had a talent for acting and asked her
whether she would be interested in doing more.
Contacts in the industry were
helpful and she had a string of radio roles, culminating in
being offered the part of Spoonface Steinberg - the inner
monologue of an 8 year old autistic girl dying of cancer.
The play, written by Kate Rowland
and directed by Lee Hall was a 60 minute monologue for Radio 4
which caused a stir when first released in 1997. Becky was asked
to attend the Talkie awards where she picked up the Best Radio
Drama and Talkie Of The Year award. |
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Shortly after this success, Becky
was signed up with Jane Hollowood Associates who began to
represent her in the acting world.
She moved into television, getting
guest roles on Always and Everyone, Peak Practice and Doctors.
Her biggest TV role was in See How
They Run, a 6 part drama for CBBC about a family on the run from
gangsters. Half the series was filmed in Australia - quite an
adventure for Becky at just 12 years old! |
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Music Interests
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At the age of 13, Becky took up learning
guitar and began to develop a keen interest in music as well as the idea
that her career could take a different direction. She pursued her hobby
and began to write her own songs. Between the ages of 14 and 19, she was
in a series of bands playing either guitar, drums or bass guitar. She
now plays bass with rock n roll group The Wes Paul Band. |
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The Wes Paul Band |
Today...
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The acting roles continued as Becky got
older but she began to turn down bigger parts in order to concentrate on
her studies. Becky always had an interest in writing, encouraged by her
parents to take it up as a hobby.
In 2004 she was offered a place on a
Creative Writing course at Leeds University and so put her acting career
on hold.
Upon graduating in 2007 she signed up with Jane again to
continue her acting, and moved to Calderdale where she now lives, and
plays gigs around the area with The Wes Paul Band. |
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