Previous RSC includes: Revolt She Said, Revolt Again, Cymbeline, Measure for Measure, The School for Scandal, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Broken Heart, A Museum in Baghdad

Theatre includes: A Suite in Three Keys (Orange Tree), Mary’s Babies (Jermyn Street), A Woman of No Importance (Vaudeville), Terror (Lyric Hammersmith), The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary (Liverpool Everyman/Peepolykus), Rapture Blister Burn (Hampstead Theatre), In The Republic of Happiness, Spinning into Butter (Royal Court), Decade (Headlong), The King’s Speech (Wyndham’s), Heartbreak House (Chichester), Playing with Fire, Look Back in Anger, Arcadia (Critics’ Circle Theatre Award) (National Theatre), Rock ‘n’ Roll (Duke of York’s), Macbeth, Heartbreak House, 1953, The School for Wives (Critics’ Circle Theatre Award) (Almeida), Private Lives (Albery Theatre & Broadway), Jane Eyre (Sheffield Crucible)

Television includes: The Art Detectives, Strike: The Ink Black Heart, Sister Boniface, Beyond Paradise, Sanditon, Van Der Valk (Series 1-3), Years and Years, Les Misérables, Unforgotten, Silent Witness, Dark Angel, Close To The Enemy, Capital, Arthur & George, This Is England ’90, New Tricks, Foyle’s War, DCI Banks, Silk, The Game, Inspector George Gently, Father Brown, Death In Paradise, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kidnap and Ransom, Midsomer Murders, Return To Cranford, The Cranford Chronicles, Fallen Angel, Ghost Squad, Beneath The Skin, The Government Inspector, Waking the Dead, My Uncle Silas, Birthday Girl, Green Eyed Monster, Big Bad World, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Other People’s Children, A Respectable Trade, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries, A Dance to the Music of Time, Drover’s Gold, Poirot, The Maitlands, Dread Poets Society, Tell Tale Hearts

Film includes: Fast Girls, Twenty8K, The Other Man, Discovery of Heaven, Pandaemonium, The Scarlet Tunic, The Great Ghost Rescue

Previous RSC includes: Doctor Faustus, Don Quixote, The Alchemist

Theatre includes: The Grapes of Wrath (National Theatre), The Harder They Come (Public, New York), Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (The Lyric, West End), Rockets and Blue Lights (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Death of a Salesman (The Piccadilly, West End), Small Island (National Theatre), Tina - The Tina Turner Musical (The Aldwych, West End), Mlima’s Tale (The Kiln)

Film includes: Pretty Red Dress and Together

Television includes: Father Brown, Waffle the Wonder Dog, Casualty, Doctors

Previous RSC includes: Snow in Midsummer

Theatre includes: Much Ado About Nothing, Top Girls, The Welkin, The Oresteia (National Theatre), Maryland, You For Me For You (Royal Court Theatre), Antigone (Colchester Mercury Theatre), Crave (Chichester), A Kettle of Fish (The Yard), Big Aftermath of a Small Disclosure (Summerhall, Edinburgh), Describe the Night (Hampstead), Julius Caesar (The Bridge), Sugar Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (HighTide Festival), Boy (Almeida Theatre), Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate Theatre), Chimerica (West End)

Television includes: The Bay 2, Silent Witness

Audio includes: Steady Eyes, The King of Hell’s Palace, Lights, Camera, Kidnap!, Demolition Man, Westway

Trained at: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Previous RSC includes: The Tempest, King Lear, Ghosts, Richard III, The Seagull, Edward II, Troilus & Cressida, The Man of Mode, Restoration

Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol John Gabriel Borkman (The Bridge Theatre), The Lehman Trilogy (Piccadilly Theatre and The Armory, New York), The Lehman Trilogy, King Lear, Timon of Athens, Collaborators, London Assurance, A Slight Ache, Major Barbara, Much Ado About Nothing, The Alchemist, Life of Galileo, Jumpers, Humble Boy, Hamlet, Battle Royal, Candide, Summerfolk, Money, Othello, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Volpone (National Theatre), Mr Foote’s Other Leg (Hampstead/Haymarket), Temple, The Philanthropist, Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night (Donmar Warehouse), The Hothouse (Trafalgar Studios), Privates On Parade (Noel Coward Theatre), Bluebird (Atlantic Theatre, New York), The Cherry Orchard, The Winter’s Tale (BAM, World Tour, Old Vic), Monty Python’s Spamalot (Palace Theatre, London & Schubert Theatre, New York), Julius Caesar (Barbican/International Tour), Richard II, Macbeth (Almeida), Jumpers (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York), Jumpers (Piccadilly Theatre), Humble Boy (Gielgud Theatre), Invention of Love (Hampstead Theatre)

Television includes: House of the Dragon, Douglas is Cancelled, Mary & George, Vanity Fair, Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, Penny Dreadful, Under The Covers, Monteverdi, Legacy, Parkinson, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, God’s Country, Symphony, Spooks, Sacred Christmas Music, American Experience, Dunkirk, Great Historians, Gibbon, A Dance To The Music Of Time

Film includes: Firebrand, Radioactive, The Outfit, Benediction, Mary Queen of Scots, Operation Finale, The Death of Stalin (Winner of 2017 British Independent Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor), Museo, My Cousin Rachel, Tarzan, Savannah, Into The Woods, The Deep Blue Sea, My Week With Marilyn, Hamlet

Simon was educated at St Paul's Cathedral Choir School and Clifton College in Bristol. After graduating with a first in English at Cambridge University he began training as an opera singer before he turned to acting. He started his theatrical career at the Royal Court, and went on to the Royal Shakespeare Company for eight years. Since then, he has spent 20 years at the National Theatre. Simon has performed all over the world and appeared in award winning TV and film. He has presented many BBC programmes about classical music. In 2019 he was appointed a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to the arts.

RSC includes: As You Like It

Theatre includes: Strategic Love Play (Soho Theatre, Paines Plough), Grounded (Bridge Theatre, Brussels), An Oak Tree (Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), That Is Not Who I Am (Royal Court Downstairs), Collect, Cumin, Coriander, Chardonnay and Cashews (Royal Court Upstairs), How To Build A Wax Figure (Pleasance/November Theatre), Maryland (Royal Court), Living Newspaper (Royal Court & Tea Films), Scenes With Girls (Royal Court), Connect (Old Vic), Square Rounds (Finborough), The Divide (Old Vic), Mary Stuart (Almeida), Men (Arcola)

Television includes: Obsession, Make Me Prime Minister, The Crown, Soulmates, Bridgerton, Doc Martin, Queens of Mystery

Film includes: Emma