Simon taught English in Kent and China before training as an actor. He has been living and working in Ireland for the last thirteen years. Theatre work includes: Pride and Prejudice, An Ideal Husband, The Vortex (Gate Theatre); A Doll’s House, Hamlet, (Second Age); The Picture of Dorian Grey (Winterland); King Lear (C Company); Peter Pan (Pavillion Theatre); Macbeth, Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, A Doll’s House, The Cherry Orchard (Salisbury Playhouse); Outward Bound, Kind Hearts and Coronets (Watford Palace); Wild Honey, Betrayal (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Murder in the Cathedral, Moby Dick, The Tempest (RSC). Film and Television work includes: The Professor and the Madman (Christchurch Prods); The Witness (WFM Film and TV); 37 Days, Line of Duty II, Wodehouse in Exile, Murphy’s Law, Inspector George Gently, Eastenders, Our Friends in the North (BBC); Foyles War VIII (ITV); Vikings (VK Prods); The Tudors III (HS Prods); The Clinic (RTE); Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Heartbeat (YTV).
| Movie | The Reluctant Royal | William, Duke of Glasswick | 2025-03-08 |
| Movie | Baltimore | Rose's Father | 2024-03-01 |
| Series | Maxine | Stephen Coward | 2022-10-10 |
| Series | Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama | Hugh Tomlinson | 2022-12-21 |
| Series | Intruder | Inspector Lilley | 2021-04-05 |
| Movie | The Queen v Patrick O'Donnell | An Breitheamh Denman | 2021-07-23 |
| Movie | Inspektor Jury spielt Katz und Maus | Jurys Boss | 2016-12-07 |
| Series | Vikings | Saxon Priest | 2013-03-03 |
| Series | Ripper Street | Prison Chaplain | 2012-12-30 |
| Movie | When Harvey Met Bob | Billy | 2010-12-26 |
| Movie | My Boy Jack | Naval Doctor | 2007-11-11 |
| Series | Days That Shook the World | Jean-François Champollion | 2003-11-01 |
| Series | Heartbeat | Prosecution Barrister | 1992-04-10 |