Josette Simon
Birthday: Born in 1960-11-15 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Josette Patricia Simon OBE (born 15 November 1960) is a British actress. She trained for the stage at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and played the part of Dayna Mellanby in the third and fourth series of the television sci-fi series Blake's 7 from 1980 to 1981.
TV Credits
Midsomer Murders
Character: Samantha Flint
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty. ...
Blake's 7
Character: Dayna Mellanby
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship....
Silent Witness
Character:
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes....
The Cuckoo Waltz
Character:
The Cuckoo Waltz was a British television sitcom made by Granada Television for the ITV network between 1975 and 1977 and in 1980. The series which was set in 1970s and Manchester, written by Geoffrey Lancashire, produced and directed by Bill Gilmour, dealt with the comic complications that ensue when impoverished newlyweds Chris and Fliss Hawthorne take in a lodger, Gavin Rumsey, to ease their financial problems. Collins left after 3 series and was replaced by Ian Saynor as Adrian Lockett in t...
The Girlfriend Experience
Character: Lindsey
Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price....
Natural World
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Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed...
The Last Detective
Character: Jemma Duval
"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans....
Anatomy of a Scandal
Character: Angela Regan
Sophie's privileged life as the wife of powerful politician James unravels when scandalous secrets surface — and he stands accused of a shocking crime....
Crossfire
Character: Miriam
A group of holidaymakers are caught up in a gun attack on the hotel where they are staying...
Ice
Character: Bella Davies
A diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and treacherous world of the diamond business....
Casualty
Character: Sarah Keith
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
The Mallorca Files
Character: Anna Hammond
Amongst the vibrant international community of the eponymous Spanish island, a British and a German detective with very different approaches to policing have a clash of personalities. Despite - or perhaps because of - their very different approaches, the sleuths form a perfect complementary partnership as they seek to solve a new crime on the island each week....
The Silence
Character: Therapist
Drama about a deaf girl who witnesses the audacious murder of a policewoman....
Halo
Character: Desiderata
Depicting an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, the series weaves deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future....
Nice Town
Character: Frankie Thompson
When big-hearted Joe discovers the pain infertility is causing his brother Paul, he suggests to Paul's wife that he act as secret sperm donor....
Queens of Mystery
Character: Talulah Savage-Hughes
Matilda Stone is a perennially single female detective whose three aunts are well-known crime writers that help her solve whodunit style murders as well as set her up on blind dates....
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Mirelle Milesi
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions....
Silent Witness
Character: DCI Ford
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes....
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
Character: Henrietta Bolingbroke
Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents....
Spooks
Character: Julia Dennison
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid....
Seekers
Character: Susie Hazard
Seekers is a four-part TV mini-series released in 1992 about a police officer who disappears, and when his wife tries to find him, she discovers... another wife. They team up to search for him. It starred Brenda Fricker and Josette Simon, and was written by the celebrated novelist and screenwriter Lynda La Plante who also wrote the book of the same name. It was produced by Sarah Lawson....
The Witcher
Character: Eithne
Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts....
Broadchurch
Character: Chief Superintendent Clark
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart....
Nightflyers
Character: Cynthia
In the year 2093, a team of scientists aboard the Nightflyer, the most advanced ship ever built, embarks on a journey to find other life forms. Their mission takes them to the edge of the solar system, and to the edge of insanity, as they realize true horror isn't waiting for them in outer space—it's already on their ship....
Death in Paradise
Character: Judge Stone
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie....
Absentia
Character: Rowena
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead....
Small Axe
Character: Lydia Thomas
An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s....
Movie Credits
Tell That to the Winter Sea
Character: Kat
Celebrating her upcoming marriage, bride-to-be Jo invites her childhood friend, and first love, Scarlet, on a girls’ trip to a country manor. However, despite drifting apart as adults, unresolved feelings still linger between them while the rest of the group enjoys the weekend away. With Jo about to embark on a new stage in her life, but struggling to let go of the past, she reflects with Scarlet on the young girls they once were, and the women they are becoming....
Bridge of Time
Character: Fatima
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Here Is the News
Character: Catherine Jones
Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart him....
Rea's Men
Character: Rea
As two visibly confused men who are restricted to using one word to communicate encounter each other on the planes of an unknown purgatory, they discover that their need to be confrontational could be the very thing that destroys them....
Harem
Character: Geisla
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves....
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
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Now a widowed mother of two in her fifties, Bridget Jones feels lost in the world of app-based dating. However, romance unexpectedly sparks with her son’s science teacher… and a much younger man....
CBeebies Presents: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Titania
Fairies, magic, celebration and comical confusion! Join Swashbuckle's Cook and Line as they help William Shakespeare put together a magical production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Filmed at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, the production features lots of CBeebies favourites, including Justin Fletcher as Nick Bottom - the star of the play within a play who undergoes a magical transformation! Whoever heard of a talking and singing donkey? English...
Cry Freedom
Character: Dr Ramphele
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist....
NW
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Two friends from a northwest London housing estate are reunited when one of them faces a messy personal crisis....
Milk and Honey
Character: Joanna Bell
Jo, a Jamaican native, moves to Canada to help support her family. But she quickly learns that earning money and respect will be more difficult than she ever imagined....
Wonder Woman
Character: Mnemosyne
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict....
Red Lights
Character: Corrine
Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, reappears after an enigmatic absence of 30 years to become the greatest international challenge to both orthodox science and professional sceptics. Tom starts to develop an intense obsession with Silver, whose magnetism becomes stronger with each new m...
RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Character: Cleopatra
Following Caesaras assassination, Mark Antony has reached the heights of power. Now he has neglected his empire for a life of decadent seduction with his mistress, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Torn between love and duty, Antonyas military brilliance deserts him, and his passion leads the lovers to their tragic end....
Bitter Harvest
Character: Vivienne Johnson
A young black British woman goes to the Dominican Republic as an aid worker. When she goes missing, her parents make an emotional journey to piece together her story....
King
Character: Linda King
A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected....
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Character: Grams
In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective....
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Character: Zelda
In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered....
The Crow
Character: Sophia
Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right....