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Full John Simm Biography
John Ronald Simm (born 10 July 1970 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is an English actor and musician. He is best known for his role as Sam Tyler in the BBC detective drama Life on Mars. He also appeared as the latest incarnation of the Master in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
Simm was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire and grew up in Nelson, Lancashire. He carries his father's name, Ronald, as his middle name. His father was a local musician who taught him to play guitar. Simm would join his father on stage in the working men’s clubs playing the guitar, he made his debut singing Elvis's Wooden Heart, and they called themselves 'Us2'.
In 1986 and at the age of 16, Simm went to Blackpool Drama College for three years, and starred in West Side Story. He then attended the Drama Centre in London at the age of 18, where he studied the Stanislavski School of method acting.
In 1995, Simm played the troubled teenager Bill Preece in the "Best Boys" episode of the acclaimed ITV police drama, Cracker. He also starred in Boston Kickout and won the Best Actor award at the Valencia Film Festival.
In 2000, he starred in the opening episode of the acclaimed drama Clocking Off written by Paul Abbott, with whom he would later work on the award-winning political thriller series State of Play.
In 2002, Simm featured in the film 24 Hour Party People as enigmatic New Order frontman Bernard Sumner. At a live concert in Finsbury Park the same year, Simm sang "Digital" onstage with New Order. It was also this year that he played Raskolnikov in the BBC adaptation of his favourite book, Crime and Punishment.
In 2004 he played a researcher and investigator for a charity in a Channel 4 drama Sex Traffic, the hard hitting drama that follows the plight of two young Moldovan sisters sold into sexual slavery.
Simm starred as Detective Inspector Sam Tyler in the popular 2006 BBC series Life on Mars in which he played a police officer apparently sent back in time to 1973. The second series began on BBC One on February 13, 2007. The show won the Pioneer Audience Award for Best Programme at the 2007 BAFTA TV Awards, although Simm lost out on the award for Best Actor.
In March 2007, he appeared on Channel 4 in The Yellow House, a biographical drama produced by talkbackTHAMES about the lives of artists Vincent van Gogh (Simm) and Paul Gauguin (John Lynch).
Simm joined the 2007 series of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who as the Master, a recurring enemy of the Doctor. He made his first appearance on the 16 June 2007 episode, "Utopia", where he appeared as the Master following Derek Jacobi's brief portrayal of the character.
He is married to actress Kate Magowan, who appeared alongside him in 24 Hour Party People, and they have two children; Ryan, born 13 August 2001, and Molly, born in February 2007. Simm is a supporter of Manchester United. |
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