Actor Ciaran Hinds admitted he thought his daughter Aoife was too late getting into acting.
Aoife has appeared in Normal People and Derry Girls, but her Oscar-nominated father has revealed she got into acting later in life.
The Belfast star admitted he worried she would fall behind other people who had been studying acting for years.
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The Kin actor said: "She came to it late. She was studying International Relations, went travelling, then suddenly announced her aim to enter this business.
"I had no idea and thought it was quite late to be getting into acting, that she’d be way behind all these young people who’d been studying it for years.
"But at the end of the day, you have to follow your bliss," he told the RTE Guide.
In 2020, Aoife previously revealed her famous father tried to sway her away from acting as it was an unstable life.
But realising his daughter had acting ambitions, Hinds showed her his full support.
She said at the time: "My dad did try and keep me away from it for quite a while because he knows how hard it is especially today. When he realised I really wanted to do it, he was fully supportive."
She also had hopes of studying drama at Trinity College but didn't get accepted. She said at the time: "I wanted to go to drama school in Ireland, that was my dream. My first choice was the Lir (Trinity’s prestigious acting school) in Dublin but they didn’t want me.
"I would have loved to go and live in Ireland for three years because I feel it’s so embedded in me but I’ve never lived there and I have this frustration of saying I’ve never lived there."
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