John Simm
John Simm Trivia
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John has recorded a commentary for The End Of Time Part 2 with David Tennant and Euros Lyn for Doctor Who: The Complete Specials boxset.
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John appears on the cover of The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter along with David Tennant and Russell T. Davies.
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To research his role as The Master on Doctor Who, John admitted to watching the 1996 movie in two parts with a bottle of wine.
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In 2007 John starred in the play Elling which featured in both the Bush Theatre and Trafalgar Studios (theatre) in London.
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John was voted Best Guest Actor by readers of Doctor Who Magazine for his roles as Harold Saxon and The Master in the 2007 Season of Doctor Who.
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John appears on the cover of the Doctor Who Season Three DVD set with David Tennant.
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In July 2007 John appeared on the cover of Doctor Who Magazine. He also appeared on the December 2009 cover with David Tennant and Bernard Cribbins.
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In 2006 John provided commentaries for Episodes 4 and 8 on the Life On Mars Season 1 DVD box set.
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John once worked as an Usher at the Albery theatre in London
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John was nominated for a BAFTA (tv) in 2007 for Best Actor for Life on Mars.
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John made his professional stage debut in 1996 in Simon Bent's play Goldhawk Road at the Bush Theatre.
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John's favourite football player is Ryan Giggs, so much so he named his first-born son after him.
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The first football match John attended was Manchester United vs. West Ham in the FA Cup third round in 1983.
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John narrates the audio version of David Peace's book, The Damned Utd, about Leeds United Football Club.
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In a January 2007 survey of 10,000 women to find the World's Sexiest Man, John was ranked no. 67.
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To help him get into character John wears Old Spice aftershave on the set of Life on Mars.
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John used to go clubbing regularly but stopped after the release of Human Traffic as he kept being bothered by people who had seen the film.
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For the second series of Life on Mars John was turned into a Camberwick Green style puppet.
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In 2006, John came fifth in a Best Actor poll as voted by BBC viewers.
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In 1995 John won the award for Best Actor at Valencia Film Festival for his film Boston Kickout.
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According to an interview published in Februrary 2007 John likes The Beatles, Ian Brown, Manchester United, Van Gogh, good manners, family life and his dislikes include Heat magazine, tabloids, bigots, Arsenal, being away from his family.
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John starred in the 1999 film Human Traffic as Jip.
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John attended the Drama Centre, London.
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He attended Edge End High School in Nelson, Lancashire.
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As of 2006, he lives in Crouch End, North London.
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His height is 5'10" (1.78m).
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John: (on narrowly escaping a serious car crash): I was actually travelling up to see them play last week, the Man Utd versus Chelsea game last Sunday when I was involved in a car accident, so I never made it. It was on the M1 and that's why my hand is in this bandage. I'm OK but I was very lucky to walk away from it. I'm fine now.
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John Simm: (on if he'd come back to Doctor Who): I'm not, by the way, ruling out a return to Doctor Who in the future. It's too exciting a show to be a part of for me to do that.
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John: (on his role in The Devil's Whore): Oh, he's a horrible, nasty piece of work - a really feral, stubborn bastard, The minute I read the script, I was bowled over by it and by him. It's a hell of a part and I'm really, really honoured that they gave it to me. I had to fight for it though. I had to audition - which was something I hadn't done for ages - and I won it, which was really great.
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John: (with some advice for aspiring actors) Be honest with yourself and confident, but not misguidedly so. Then walk into interviews and auditions as if you're doing them a favour by doing the job.
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John: (on his worst job) Working in a bar in the West End during the late Eighties where I had to serve drinks and do dance routines to Greased Lightnin' wearing cycling shorts.
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John: (on the success of Life on Mars) I didn't think for a minute it was going to be massive. I didn't even know if it would work. Let's face it, the premise is ridiculous!
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John: (on taking his role in Doctor Who) The hardest thing about it was I had to leave to start filming in Cardiff just three days after my daughter was born, which was a pain in the arse. I was very tired and obviously my wife wasn't ecstatic.
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John: (on accepting his role in Doctor Who) "It's a great honour. I'm not a sci-fi maniac or anything but I enjoy it."
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John: (on appearing in Life on Mars) I've never done anything so mainstream and glossy before.
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John: (on Life on Mars) If it had been a hazy, nostalgic 1970s trip with Noddy Holder running around and funny accents going on, I wouldn't have done it. There were some very dark things going on in the 1970s - racism, strikes, the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four - and we need to reflect that in Life on Mars.
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John: I was born in 1970 so my personal memories of the Seventies are a bit vague. I do remember bits of it very well, 1977 for some reason – I remember a specific t-shirt that I wore, which had a Starsky & Hutch yellow transfer on the front.
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John: I do like doing comedy, I was in Spaced and I did a sketch thing with Steve Coogan once, and I've worked with Ricky Gervais.
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John: (on the appeal of Life on Mars) Everyone dreams about going back in time and meeting their parents when they were young. It's that thing of 'could you change the future?'
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