Simon was born in Blackpool and trained at LAMDA, winning the St Philip’s Trophy.

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); King Lear (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Joe & I  (King’s Head); The Rivals (Compass); 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 & Juliet, Burn This, Tartuffe, My Cousin Rachel (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Mario & the Magician (Almeida); Agatha Christie Theatre Festival 2001 (Palace, Westcliff); The Best Man, The Hollow (BKL UK tours).

Television credits include: The Diplomat, Miss Austen, Brassic, Endeavour; Fearless; EastEnders; Foyle’s War; Casualty; Law and Order UK; Emmerdale; Coronation Street; Doctors; Lynda la Plante’s 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/News Anchor' in BRIT Award-winning band BΔSTILLE’s highly acclaimed Wild World Tour and the music video for Fake It (Universal Music).