Simon Williams Biography

Fast Facts

• Pretended he was the captain of a previous school's football team to earn a place at Harrow School
• Trained in repertory at Worthing, Birmingham and Bath
• His first acting role was as the genie of the lamp in Aladdin
• Along with Angela Thorne, was the Chairman of the Actors' Children's Trust from 1989 to 2005
• Wrote the comedy play Nobody's Perfect, casting his daughter Amy in the theatre production in 2001
• Played the role of Bernard Kersal in a theatre production of The Constant Wife at the Apollo Theatre in London in 2002
• Played Captain Hastings in BBC Radio 4 adaptations of Agatha Christie's Poirot in 2008
• Is a trustee of The Sir Terence Rattigan Charitable Trust
• Has played the role of Justin Elliot in the long-running radio serial The Archers since 2014