# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josette-simon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:13:56.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josette-simon"
name: "Josette Simon"
slug: "josette-simon"
description: "Josette Patricia Simon, OBE is a British actress who 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. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and performed as a 14-year-old in the choir for the world premiere of the finalised Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. She has continued a career in stage productions, appearing in 50 Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) productions, from the single press night performance as a featured character in Salvation Now at the Warehouse theatre in 1982, through to playing Cleopatra in a six-month run of Antony and Cleopatra at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 2017. The first black woman in an RSC play when she appeared in Salvation Now, Simon has been at the forefront of colour-blind casting, playing roles traditionally taken by white actors, including Maggie, a character who is thought to be based on Marilyn Monroe, in Arthur Miller's After the Fall at the Royal National Theatre in 1990."
tagline: "British actor (born 1959 / 1960)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/uLvLGR6a60To8AAlj0C5124d7Xu.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.886164
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800219/"
    handle:    "nm0800219"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82"
    title: "Саймон, Джозетт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوزيت سيمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جۆسێت سایمۆن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josette_Simon"
    title: "Josette Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josette_Simon"
    title: "Josette Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%98%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ژوزت سایمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josette_Simon"
    title: "Josette Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josette_Simon"
    title: "Josette Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josette_Simon"
    title: "Josette Simon"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q286023"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/174708"
    title: "Josette Simon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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