Simon was born in Blackpool and trained at LAMDA.

Theatre Credits Include: Original London Cast member of Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird (Gielgud Theatre); La Cage aux Folles [The Play], Mother of Him (Park Theatre); Absolute Hell (National Theatre); Antony & Cleopatra (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Lion in Winter (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Joe & I (King’s Head); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth (Arundel Festival); Twelfth Night (Bristol Old Vic); The Winter’s Tale, The Glass Menagerie, The Deep Blue Sea (Royal & Derngate); John Cleese’s Bang Bang (After Feydeau), Romeo & Juliet, Burn This, Tartuffe (Mercury, Colchester); Mario & the Magician (Almeida).

Television: The Diplomat; Miss Austen; Brassic; Endeavour; Fearless; Foyle’s War; Casualty; Law & Order UK; Emmerdale; Coronation Street; EastEnders; Doctors; Lynda la Plante’s Trial & Retribution; Wire in the Blood; Wallis & Edward; Inspector Morse – The Remorseful Day; The Royal; Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Lucasfilm).

Film: Walking With The Enemy; Sink; Love’s Kitchen; The Holly Kane Experiment; The Walker (dir. Paul Schrader).

Simon appeared as the ‘Politician/News Anchor’ in BRIT Award-winning band BΔSTILLE’s Wild World Tour and the music video for Fake It (Universal Music).