# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-simm
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:35:39.383Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-simm"
name: "John Simm"
slug: "john-simm"
description: "John Ronald Simm is an English actor, director, and musician. He is best known for playing Sam Tyler in Life on Mars, the Master in Doctor Who, and Det Supt Roy Grace in Grace. His other television credits include State of Play, The Lakes, Crime and Punishment, Exile, Prey, and Cracker. His film roles include Wonderland, Everyday, Boston Kickout, Human Traffic and 24 Hour Party People. He has twice been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor and has won the 2014 Royal Television Society award in the Best Performance in a Single Drama or Drama Series (Male) category for his work on the crime thriller series Prey.."
tagline: "British actor, director, singer and guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Simm_(2010)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1970-07-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.22746133333334
  currentAttention:     4.920000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799591/"
    handle:    "nm0799591"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "جون سيم (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون سيم (عازف جيتار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جان سیم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simm"
    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simm"
    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Simm"
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    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ג'ון סים"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Simm"
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    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simm"
    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョン・シム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "존 심"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simm"
    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simm"
    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Симм, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Џон Сим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simm"
    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/57b92674-da25-4b8b-95dd-b2c9e20cc75a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443327"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42604"
    title: "John Simm"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump