Simon Callow: 'I always told people that I was gay wherever I went'
Simon Callow in Anything Goes. Picture: Marc Brenner
He’s one of film and theatre’s most-loved actors. Now Simon Callow has revealed how his love of drama was honed while in college in Ireland where his lecturers included a legendary poet. The actor first attended Queen’s University in Belfast, having failed to get a grant to attend Trinity in Dublin like some of his peers.
“They must have been the last generation to be able to get a grant. But what I love is I blithely thought: ‘Oh, well, in that case, I'll go to Belfast, it will be much the same’. It certainly wasn't in 1968, my goodness me. But I love it dearly and go back very often actually, and I've worked in Northern Irish Theatre.”
