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John Ronald Simm (born 10 July 1970) is an English actor, director, and musician. He is best known for playing Sam Tyler in Life on Mars, the Master in Doctor Who, and DS Roy Grace in Grace. His other television credits include State of Play, The Lakes, Crime and Punishment, Exile, Prey, and Cracker
Aug 20, 2013 · Exile. Finally, in a nod to my last Actors / ActressesYou Should Know post, I present you with a double dose of top-notch acting. Exile stars John Simm as Tom Ronstadt, a self-destructive and washed up journalist forced to return to a home he fled as a teenager. His father, also a journalist, is now suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and is ...
Mar 11, 2023 · Sat 11 Mar 2023 04.30 EST. B orn in Leeds, John Simm, 52, studied performing arts in Blackpool and then moved to London to attend the Drama Centre. After roles in television series such as Cracker ...
5 March 2018. ( 2018-03-05) Collateral is a four-part British television drama serial, written and created by David Hare, and directed by S. J. Clarkson. [1] It was first broadcast on BBC Two on 12 February 2018. The series, described by Hare as "a police procedural without any of that police attitudinising", [2] stars Carey Mulligan as DI Kip ...
John Simm plays Bert's father John Middleton, an abusive, alcoholic Peak District farmer, and Maxine Peake plays Bert's mother, Grace. Writer Peter Moffat has spoken of wanting to create 'a British Heimat', alluding to Edgar Reitz's epic German saga Heimat, which followed one extended family in a region of the Rhineland from 1919 to 2000.
Sep 10, 2010 · Or, rather, lack of them. "It's going to sound bollocks this, but sometimes I do feel underappreciated. I was the lead in State Of Play, and two actors got nominated for Baftas and I wasn't even ...
The Village: Created by Peter Moffat. With David Ryall, Maxine Peake, John Simm, Charlie Murphy. Follows the residents of one English village across the 20th century and their turbulent lives.