Simon was born in Blackpool and trained at LAMDA, where he was awarded  the St Philip’s Trophy by screenwriter Richard Curtis.

He recently appeared at the Gielgud Theatre in the iconic role of Link Deas opposite Matthew Modine as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s new play of To Kill A Mockingbird (directed by Bartlett Sher).

Other theatre credits include: La Cage aux Folles, Mother Of Him (Park); Absolute Hell (National Theatre); Antony & Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Lion in Winter (Theatre Royal Haymarket); King Lear (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Joe & I  (King’s Head); The Rivals (Compass Theatre Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth (Arundel Festival/ Tour); Twelfth Night (Bristol Old Vic); The Winter’s Tale, The Glass Menagerie, The Deep Blue Sea (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); the world première of John Cleese’s Bang Bang (After Feydeau), Romeo and Juliet, Burn This, Tartuffe, My Cousin Rachel (Mercury, Colchester); Mario and the Magician (Almeida); the Agatha Christie Theatre Festival (Palace, Westcliff); The Best Man, The Hollow (BKL UK tours).

Television credits include: The Diplomat (Season 2): This England, Endeavour, Fearless, EastEnders, Foyle’s War, Casualty, Law and Order UK, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Doctors, Trial and Retribution, Wire in the Blood, Wallis & Edward, Inspector Morse – The Remorseful Day, The Royal, Bliss, Bodyguards, Departures, The Bill, Ruth Rendell’s Thornapple and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Lucasfilm).

Film credits include: Walking With The Enemy, Under Her Skin, Sink, Love’s Kitchen, 47 Cleveland, The Holly Kane Experiment, Tezz and The Walker, directed by Paul Schrader.

Simon appeared as ‘The Politician’ in the music video for BΔSTILLE’s Fake It (Universal Music).