Josette Patricia Simon OBEis a British actress. She 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.[1][2] On stage, she has appeared in Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) productions from 1982, playing Ariel in The Tempest, to 2018 when she was Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra.
Her first leading role at the RSC, the first for a black actress, was as Rosaline, in Love's Labour's Lost, directed by Barry Kyle, in 1984.[3] In 1987, Simon appeared for the RSC again, in the lead role of Isabelle in Measure for Measure.[4][5] Later leading roles for the RSC saw her as Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999–2000) and Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (2017–18).[6][7]
Simon won the Evening Standard's Best Actress award,[8] a Critics' Circle Theatre Award, and Plays and Players Critic Awards for After the Fall,[9][10] and two film festival awards for her part in Milk and Honey (1988).[11][12] She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2000, for services to drama.[13]
Television and streaming
editChannels and dates are for the United Kingdom unless otherwise indicated.
Year | Title` | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1980–1981 | Blake's 7 | Dayna Mellanby | BBC1. 26 episodes. | [1][2] |
1980 | The Cuckoo Waltz | [14] | ||
1980 | The Squad | Noble Bartlett | [15][16] | |
1984 | Play for Today | Linda King | BBC1. Episode: "King". | [17][18] |
1986 | Pob's Programme | guest | Channel 4 | [19] |
1986 | Harem | Geisla | TV movie | [20] |
1986 | Save a Life | BBC1 | [21] | |
1986 | Umbrella | BBC1 | [22] | |
1986 | The Pyrates | Sheba | BBC2 | [23][24] |
1988 | Thompson | various roles | BBC1. 2 episodes. | [25][26] |
1989 | Screen Two: Here is the News | BBC2 | [27] | |
1989 | Child Slaves | narrator | BBC2 | [28] |
1989 | Capital City | Beatrice | Episode: "Take Over" | [29] |
1990 | When Love Dies | Annabel | Channel 4 | [30] |
1992 | A Child from the South | Nadia | TV movie | [20][31] |
1992 | Bitter Harvest | Vivienne Johnson | BBC2 | [29][32] |
1992 | Nice Town | Frankie | 3 episodes | [33] |
1993 | Seekers | Susie | Both episodes | [34] |
1994 | The Natural World | narrator | BBC Radio 4 | [35] |
1994 | Black Christmas: Shooting Stars | narrator | [36] | |
1995 | Henry IV | Kate | BBC | [37][38] |
1997 | Bridge of Time | Fatima | ABC. TV movie. | [39][40] |
1997 | Kavanagh QC | Dr. Hilary Jameson | ITV. Episode: "Blood Money". | [29] |
1998 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Eileen Anstiss | BBC One. Episode: "Bones and Silence". | [29] |
1998 | Silent Witness | DCI Jo Hoskins | BBC One. Episodes: "Divided Loyalties: Part 1 & 2". | [29] |
1999 | Polterguests | Dilys Tring | ITV | [31][41] |
2000 | Reputations: Joe Louis: the Boxer Who Beat Hitler | narrator | BBC Two | [42] |
2002 | Celeb | Dawn | BBC One | [43] |
2003 | The Last Detective | Jemma Duvall | ITV. Episode: "Lofty". | [29] |
2006 | Poirot | Mirelle Milesi | Episode: "The Mystery of the Blue Train" | [29] |
2006 | Casualty | Sarah Keith | BBC One. Episodes: "The Sunny Side of the Street, Part 1 & 2". | [44] |
2007 | Lewis | Stephanie Fielding | ITV. Episode: "Expiation". | [29] |
2008 | Skins | Elaine | E4. Episode "Jal". | [29][45] |
2009 | Minder | DI Murray | Channel 5 | [46] |
2009–10 | Casualty | Frances Liveley | BBC One. 7 episodes. | [47] |
2000 | The Silence | Therapist | BBC One, two episodes | [48][49] |
2011 | Silent Witness | Mrs Ferris | BBC One. Episode: "First Casualty: Part 2". | [50] |
2012 | New Tricks | Vera | BBC One. Episode: "Queen and Country". | [51] |
2012 | Merlin | Euchdag / The Diamair | BBC One Episode: "Arthur's Bane: Part One & Two" | [52] |
2014 | Death in Paradise | Judge Anne Stone | BBC One. Episode: "An Artistic Murder". | [53] |
2014 | Suspects | Dr. Melanie Standish | Channel 5 | [29] |
2016 | NW | Theodora Lewis Lane | BBC Two | [29] |
2017 | Broadchurch | Chief Superintendent Clark | ITV. 3 episodes. | [29] |
2018 | The Split | Maya | BBC One. | [54] |
2018 | Jägarna | Ayanda Moganedi | [55] | |
2019 | Nightflyers | Cynthia | Syfy | [56] |
2019 | Queens of Mystery | Tallulah Savage-Hughes | Acorn TV. 2 episodes, "Death by Vinyl" | [57][58] |
2020 | Riviera | Cynthia Akuffo | Sky Atlantic. Series 3, episodes 7 and 8. | [59][60] |
2020 | The Witcher | Eithne | Netflix | [61] |
2020 | Absentia | Rowena Kincade | Amazon Prime Video | [62] |
2020 | Shakespeare and Hathaway | Henrietta Bolingbroke | BBC One. Episode "How The Rogue Roar'd" | [63] |
2020 | Small Axe | Lydia Thomas | BBC One. Episode "Education". | [64] |
2021 | The Mallorca Files | Anna Hammond | BBC One. Episode: "The Maestro". | [65] |
2022 | Anatomy of a Scandal | Angela Regan | Netflix. 6 episodes. | [66][67] |
2022 | The Girlfriend Experience | Lindsey | Starz | [68] |
2022 | Halo | Desiderata | Paramount+. Episode "Inheritance". | [69] |
2022 | Crossfire | Miriam | BBC One | [70] |
TBA | Anansi Boys | Chief Commissioner Camberwell | Amazon Prime Video | [71] |
Film
editYear | Title | Role | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1987 | Cry Freedom | Dr. Ramphele | [72] |
1988 | Milk and Honey | Joanna Bell | [72] |
2012 | Red Lights | Corinne | [73] |
2017 | Wonder Woman | Mnemosyne | [29] |
2019 | Detective Pikachu | Grams | [29] |
2020 | The Witches | Zelda | [74] |
2024 | The Crow | Sophia | [75] |
2025 | Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy | TBA | Post-production |
Theatre
editRadio
editYear | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1984 | Meridian | guest | BBC World Service | [81] |
1985 | Woman's Hour | guest | BBC Radio 4 | [82] |
1985 | Mirandolina | Mirandolina | BBC Radio 3 | [83] |
1992 | Dictator Gal | the Gal | BBC Radio 3 | [84] |
1992 | Woman's Hour | guest | BBC Radio 4 | [85] |
1992 | Work Talk | guest | BBC Radio 4 | [86] |
1994 | Towards the Millennium: Listen to Me | Gertrude Stein play. BBC Radio 3. | [87] | |
1994 | Woman's Hour | guest | BBC Radio 4 | [88] |
1995 | Sealed with a Kiss | Ellen | BBC Radio 4 | [89] |
1996 | The Roads to Freedom | Ivich | BBC Radio 4 | [90] |
1996 | Picasso's Women | Marie-Thérèse | BBC Radio 3 | [91] |
1996 | Poetry Please! | reader | BBC Radio 4 | [92] |
1997 | The Sunday Play: Agonies Awakening | Athena | BBC Radio 3 | [93] |
1998 | Sunday Play: Twelfth Night | Olivia | BBC Radio 3 | [94] |
2001 | Book of the Week: The Josephine Baker Story | reader | BBC Radio 4, five episodes. | [95] |
2002 | Afternoon Play: Voices in the Room | Misha | Bonnie Greer play. BBC Radio 4. | [96] |
2002 | Afternoon Play: Letters to an icon | DarkLady/lnvisiblewoman | BBC Radio 4 | [97] |
2006 | Book of the Week: And Still I Rise | reader | Book by Doreen Lawrence. BBC Radio 4, five episodes. | [98] |
2006 | The Verb | actor | In Nick Silver Can't Sleep by Janice Kerbel. BBC Radio 3 | [99] |
2006 | Poetry Please | reader | BBC Radio 4, two episodes. | [100][101] |
2007 | Words and Music | reader | BBC Radio 3. Episode "Slavery and Freedom". | [102] |
2008 | Words and Music | reader | BBC Radio 3. Episode "Birth and Rebirth". | [103] |
2011 | Words and Music | reader | BBC Radio 3. Episode "Law and Order". | [104] |
2018 | Choir and Organ | guest | BBC Radio 3 | [105] |
2018 | Inheritance Tracks | guest | BBC Radio 4 | [106] |
2019 | Words and Music | presenter | BBC Radio 3. Episode "Windrush: Some Kind of Homecoming". | [107] |
2020 | Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen? | Mrs Ragnarrok | BBC Radio 4 | [108] |
2022 | Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar | guest | BBC Radio 4 | [109] |
2022 | Steve Wright in the Afternoon | guest | BBC Radio 2 | [110] |
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