John Simm was born on 10th July 1970 in Leeds, West Yorkshire and grew up in Nelson, Lancashire. He attended Edge End High School, Nelson, Lancashire followed by Blackpool Drama College at 16 and the Drama Centre, London at 19. He lives with his wife, actress Kate Magowan, and their children Ryan (born 13th August 2001) and Molly (born February 2007). Simm won the best actor award at the Valencia Film Festival for his film debut in “Boston Kickout” (1996).
Birth Place: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK on 1970-07-10
Known For: Acting
TOP FIVE ROLES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
Human Traffic
Five twenty-something friends spend a drug-fueled weekend in Cardiff, Wales.
Release Date: 1999-06-04
Role: Jip
Boston Kickout
School leaver Phil moves with his father from inner-city London to the satellite Hertfordshire New Town of Stevenage, where they are promised a brighter future…but all Phil finds there is a bleak, cultural wilderness; a world of unemployment, violence, alcoholism and drug abuse in 90s Britain
Release Date: 1996-10-18
Role: Phil
The Yellow House
John Simm stars as Vincent Van Gogh in The Yellow House, a feature-length drama that tells the moving human story of the most influential and explosive housemates in art history. For just nine weeks, in late 1888, Van Gogh and Gauguin share a home, The Yellow House, in Arles, southern France.
Release Date: 2007-03-22
Role: Vincent Van Gogh
Never Never
John Parlour is a credit agent for a catalogue company preying on the poor, Jo Weller is one of his best customers. After nearly losing his life John reforms his ways and forms a credit union with Jo and his other customers. It isn’t long before John’s ambitions and Jo’s guilty secret threaten to destroy all they had worked for and shared together.
Release Date: 2000-11-04
Role: John Parlour
Miranda
A librarian begins a passionate affair with a mysterious woman who walks into his library. When she suddenly disappears he travels down to London to search for her only to discover that she has three identities – dancer, dominatrix and con-woman. But which one is the real Miranda?
Release Date: 2002-01-18
Role: Frank