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Gay Irish actor Andrew Scott was encouraged to hide his sexuality early in his career

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Sherlock and Fleabag, but his career started much earlier. When he was only 17, he was participating in youth theatre camps while studying art and drama at Trinity College.

He performed in a series of roles with the Abbey Theatre at a time when homosexuality had just been decriminalised in Ireland.For years Scott grappled with his own sexuality.

He recalls being 22 and contemplating the expression ‘my burden has become my gift’ and thinking, “Wouldn’t that be amazing?

If something that you think is a shameful part of you is actually a bit of you that gives something back?”Scott officially came out in an interview with The Independent in 2013.

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