Josette Simon

Josette Simon

Born: November 15, 1960
in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
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.

Movies for Josette Simon...

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Title: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Released: February 13, 2025
Type: Movie
Bridget Jones, now in her early fifties, navigates the challenges of modern life while juggling the responsibilities of motherhood.
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Tell That to the Winter Sea
Title: Tell That to the Winter Sea
Character: Kat
Released: May 31, 2024
Type: Movie
Celebrating her upcoming marriage, Jo invites her childhood friend, Scarlett, on a girls’ trip to a country manor. But despite drifting apart as adults, unresolved feelings still linger between them whilst the rest of the group enjoys the weekend away.
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Rea's Men
Title: Rea's Men
Character: Rea
Released: June 18, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Crossfire
Character: Miriam
Released: September 20, 2022
Type: TV
A group of holidaymakers are caught up in a gun attack on the hotel where they are staying
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Title: Anatomy of a Scandal
Character: Angela Regan
Released: April 15, 2022
Type: TV
Sophie's privileged life as the wife of powerful politician James unravels when scandalous secrets surface — and he stands accused of a shocking crime.
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Title: Halo
Character: Desiderata
Released: March 24, 2022
Type: TV
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.
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Education
Title: Education
Character: Lydia
Released: December 18, 2020
Type: Movie
A Black boy’s journey through an ineffectual public school system reveals the racial inequities built into everyday British life. Young Kingsley Smith is a spirited aspiring astronaut with a love of drawing whose life is turned upside down when he is thrust into a new school for the “educationally subnormal”—a harrowing experience that gradually awakens his mother to the institutional mistreatment of the children of West Indian immigrants. Shot on Super 16 mm to evoke BBC television dramas from the 1970s.
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Title: Small Axe
Character: Lydia Thomas
Released: November 15, 2020
Type: TV
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.
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Roald Dahl's The Witches
Title: Roald Dahl's The Witches
Character: Zelda
Released: October 26, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Witcher
Character: Eithne
Released: December 20, 2019
Type: TV
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.
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Title: The Mallorca Files
Character: Anna Hammond
Released: November 25, 2019
Type: TV
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.
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Title: Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Character: Grams
Released: May 3, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Queens of Mystery
Character: Talulah Savage-Hughes
Released: April 8, 2019
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Nightflyers
Character: Cynthia
Released: December 2, 2018
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
Character: Henrietta Bolingbroke
Released: February 26, 2018
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Absentia
Character: Rowena
Released: September 25, 2017
Type: TV
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
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Wonder Woman
Title: Wonder Woman
Character: Mnemosyne
Released: May 30, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Title: RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Character: Cleopatra
Released: May 24, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Ice
Character: Bella Davies
Released: November 16, 2016
Type: TV
A diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and treacherous world of the diamond business.
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NW
Title: NW
Released: November 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Two friends from a northwest London housing estate are reunited when one of them faces a messy personal crisis.
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CBeebies Presents: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: CBeebies Presents: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Titania
Released: April 23, 2016
Type: Movie
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
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Title: The Girlfriend Experience
Character: Lindsey
Released: April 10, 2016
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Broadchurch
Character: Chief Superintendent Clark
Released: March 4, 2013
Type: TV
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
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Red Lights
Title: Red Lights
Character: Corrine
Released: March 2, 2012
Type: Movie
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 manifestation of inexplicable events. As Tom gets closer to Silver, tension mounts, and his worldview is threatened to its core.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Judge Stone
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Title: The Silence
Character: Therapist
Released: July 12, 2010
Type: TV
Drama about a deaf girl who witnesses the audacious murder of a policewoman.
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The Beloved Ones
Title: The Beloved Ones
Character: Anna
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Animated documentary based on the true stories of two African women living with the repercussions of HIV/AIDS.
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Title: Legends
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: TV
The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.
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Title: One Life
Released: September 24, 2003
Type: TV
One life is a BBC ONE's documentary programme. Each episode is a high quality and compelling film which reflects life in contemporary Britain.
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Title: The Last Detective
Character: Jemma Duval
Released: February 7, 2003
Type: TV
"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.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Julia Dennison
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
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.
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The Boy Can't Help It
Title: The Boy Can't Help It
Character: Narrator
Released: February 27, 2002
Type: Movie
A documentary about Tourettes sufferer John Davidson. This is a follow-up to the 1989 TV documentary John's Not Mad focusing on his present circumstances as an adult with Tourettes and the impact the earlier documentary had on his life. The film also follows an 8 year old who has been diagnosed with Tourettes.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Samantha Flint
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
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.
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Bridge of Time
Title: Bridge of Time
Character: Fatima
Released: March 15, 1997
Type: Movie
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Title: Silent Witness
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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Title: Silent Witness
Character: DCI Ford
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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Title: Seekers
Character: Susie Hazard
Released: April 25, 1993
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Nice Town
Character: Frankie Thompson
Released: November 18, 1992
Type: TV
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.
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Bitter Harvest
Title: Bitter Harvest
Character: Vivienne Johnson
Released: July 22, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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When Love Dies
Title: When Love Dies
Character: Annabel
Released: January 20, 1990
Type: Movie
A young man looks back over his unhappy marriage and struggles to come to terms with his wife's suicide.
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Somewhere to Run
Title: Somewhere to Run
Character: Christine
Released: July 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.
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Title: Under the Sun
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: May 25, 1989
Type: TV
BBC series exploring cultures around the world.
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Here Is the News
Title: Here Is the News
Character: Catherine Jones
Released: March 5, 1989
Type: Movie
Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart him.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Mirelle Milesi
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
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.
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Milk and Honey
Title: Milk and Honey
Character: Joanna Bell
Released: September 9, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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Cry Freedom
Title: Cry Freedom
Character: Dr Ramphele
Released: November 6, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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The Pyrates
Title: The Pyrates
Released: December 29, 1986
Type: Movie
A swashbuckling dramatisation of George Macdonald Fraser's book The Pyrates. A tale of adventure and romance on the high seas.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Sarah Keith
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
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.
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Harem
Title: Harem
Character: Geisla
Released: February 9, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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King
Title: King
Character: Linda King
Released: April 3, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Natural World
Released: October 30, 1983
Type: TV
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 by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
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Title: Blake's 7
Character: Dayna Mellanby
Released: January 2, 1978
Type: TV
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
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Title: The Cuckoo Waltz
Released: October 27, 1975
Type: TV
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 the fourth series. The series was re-screened by now defunct Satellite TV channel, Granada Plus, in the late 1990s and early-mid-2000s.