Simon Phillip Hugh Callow (born 15 June 1949) is an English film, television and voice actor, director, narrator and writer. He was twice nominated for

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for his roles in ''

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'' (1985), and ''

Four Weddings and a Funeral ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It is the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant, and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle ...

'' (1994). He has also starred in ''

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'' (1984), '' Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls'' (1995), ''

Shakespeare in Love ''Shakespeare in Love'' is a 1998 romantic period comedy-drama film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard, and produced by Harvey Weinstein. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Col ...

'' (1998) and ''

Victoria & Abdul ''Victoria & Abdul'' is a 2017 British biographical historical drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Lee Hall. The film is based on the book of the same name by Shrabani Basu, about the real-life relationship between Queen V ...

'' (2017). His television work includes ''

Chance in a Million ''Chance in a Million'' is a British sitcom broadcast between 1984 and 1986, produced by Thames Television for Channel 4. The series was co-written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen and starred Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn. The producer a ...

'' (1984) and '' Outlander'' (2014).

Early years

Callow was born on 15 June 1949 in

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, south London, the son of Yvonne Mary (née Guise), a secretary, and Neil Francis Callow, a businessman. His father was of French descent and his mother was of Danish and German ancestry. He was raised as a

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. Callow was a student at the

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west Brompton West Brompton is an area of south-west London, that straddles the boundary between the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The centuries-old boundary was traced by Counter's Creek, now lost b ...

, and then went on to study briefly at

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, where he was active in the

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movement. He gave up his degree course after a year to take a three-year acting course at the

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Career

Acting

Callow's immersion in the theatre began after he wrote a fan letter to Sir

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, the artistic director of the National Theatre, and received a response suggesting he join their box-office staff. While watching actors rehearse, he realised he wanted to act. Callow made his stage debut in 1973, appearing in '' The Three Estates'' at the Assembly Rooms Theatre, Edinburgh. In the early 1970s, he joined the Gay Sweatshop theatre company and performed in

Martin Sherman Martin Gerald Sherman (born December 22, 1938) is an American dramatist and screenwriter best known for his 20 stage plays which have been produced in over 60 countries. He rose to fame in 1979 with the production of his play '' Bent'', which e ...

's critically acclaimed ''Passing By''. In 1977, he took various parts in the

Joint Stock Theatre Company The Joint Stock Theatre Company was founded in London 1974 by David Hare, Max Stafford-Clark Paul Kember and David Aukin. The director William Gaskill was also part of the company. It was primarily a company which presented new plays. Joint Stock ...

's production of ''

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'', and in 1979, he starred in

Snoo Wilson Andrew James Wilson (2 August 1948 – 3 July 2013), better known as Snoo Wilson, was an English playwright, screenwriter and director. His early plays such as ''Blow-Job'' (1971) were overtly political, often combining harsh social comment wit ...

's ''The Soul of the White Ant'' at the

Soho Poly Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London. Originally a fashionable district for the aristocracy, it has been one of the main entertainment districts in the capital since the 19th century. The area was develop ...

. Callow appeared as

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in ''Total Eclipse'' (1982), Lord Foppington in ''

The Relapse ''The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger'' is a Restoration comedy from 1696 written by John Vanbrugh. The play is a sequel to Colley Cibber's '' Love's Last Shift, or, The Fool in Fashion''. In Cibber's ''Love's Last Shift'', a free-living Rest ...

'' (1983), and the title role in ''

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'' (1988) at the

Lyric Hammersmith The Lyric Theatre, also known as the Lyric Hammersmith, is a theatre on Lyric Square, off King Street, Hammersmith, London.

, where he also directed '' The Infernal Machine'' (with Dame

Maggie Smith Dame Margaret Natalie Smith (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. With an extensive career on screen and stage beginning in the mid-1950s, Smith has appeared in more than sixty films and seventy plays. She is one of the few performer ...

) in 1986.Biographical note for Simon Callow in programme book for Faust at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, 2 July 1988. In 1985, he played Molina in '' Kiss of the Spiderwoman'' at the

Bush Theatre The Bush Theatre is located in the Passmore Edwards Public Library, Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 as a showcase for the work of new writers. The Bush Theatre strives to create a spa ...

, London. He played

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in the premiere of

Peter Shaffer Sir Peter Levin Shaffer (; 15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He wrote numerous award-winning plays, of which several were adapted into films. Early life Shaffer was born to a Jewish family in L ...

's ''

'' at the National Theatre (1979), also appearing in the 1983 BBC original cast radio production. He later wrote of having "discovered Mozart quite early: the operas, the symphonies, the concertos, the wind serenades were all very much part of my musical landscape when I was asked to play the part of the composer in Peter Shaffer's ''Amadeus''; possibly this was one of the reasons I got the job." He appeared at the National Theatre as Orlando in ''

As You Like It ''As You Like It'' is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has b ...

'' (1979) and Fulganzio in ''

Life of Galileo ''Life of Galileo'' (), also known as ''Galileo'', is a play by the 20th century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and collaborator Margarete Steffin with incidental music by Hanns Eisler. The play was written in 1938 and received its first theatri ...

'' (1980). Callow appeared with

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in the 1994 British television drama series ''

Little Napoleons ''Little Napoleons'' was a 1994 British television serial starring Saeed Jaffrey, Norman Beaton, Simon Callow and Lesley Manville as four politicians involved in local council elections. Beaton and Jaffrey played rival Labour candidates while ...

'', playing a scheming

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. In 1996, Callow directed

Cantabile In music, ''cantabile'' , an Italian word, means literally "singable" or "songlike". In instrumental music, it is a particular style of playing designed to imitate the human voice. For 18th-century composers, ''cantabile'' is often synonymous wi ...

in three musical pieces (''Commuting'', ''The Waiter's Revenge'', ''Ricercare No. 4'') composed by his friend Stephen Oliver. ''Ricercare No. 4'' was commissioned by Callow especially for Cantabile. He voice-acted the sly and traitorous Wolfgang in ''

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''. In 2004, he appeared on a

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episode of ''

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'' for charity causes. In 2006, he wrote a piece for the BBC1 programme '' This Week'' bemoaning the lack of characters in modern politics. He has starred as Count Fosco, the villain of

Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for ''The Woman in White (novel), The Woman in White'' (1859), a mystery novel and early "sensation novel", and for ''The Moons ...

's novel '' The Woman in White'', in film (1997) and on stage (2005, in the

Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948), is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, ...

musical Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narr ...

'' in the West End). Callow starred in the three-part original

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comedy '' The Rebel'' in 2016. In 2022, he joined the cast of the UK revival of Cole Porter's ''

Anything Goes ''Anything Goes'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap ant ...

'' replacing

Gary Wilmot Harold Owen "Gary" Wilmot, MBE (born 8 May 1954) is a British singer, actor, comedian, presenter, writer and director who rose to fame as a contestant on ''New Faces''. As a television presenter, he is best known as the host of '' You and Me'', ...

as Elisha Whitney. The production would complete a UK tour before finishing with a run at the

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. From 11 July to 3 August 2008, Callow appeared at the

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in Canada in ''There Reigns Love'', a performance of the sonnets of

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. The same year, he appeared at the

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, performing "Dr. Marigold" and "Mr. Chops" by

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

, adapted and directed by

Patrick Garland Patrick Ewart Garland (10 April 1935 – 19 April 2013) was a British director, writer and actor. Career Garland was educated at St Mary's College, Southampton, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he studied English and was Literary Editor of Isi ...

; repeating them from December 2009 to January 2010 at the

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and on tour in 2011. In February 2008, he played the psychiatrist in the

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's production of

's '' Equus''. Between March and August 2009, he played Pozzo in

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's production of '' Waiting for Godot'' by

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with

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as Estragon,

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as Vladimir, and

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as Lucky. The production toured Britain before a run at the

Theatre Royal, Haymarket The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre on Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use. Samuel Foote ...

, in London From June to November 2010, he appeared in a national tour of a new one-man play, ''Shakespeare: the Man from Stratford'', written by

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, directed by Tom Cairns, and produced by the

Ambassador Theatre Group The Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) is a major international theatre organisation headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in Woking (head office), London, New York, Sydney, Mannheim and Cologne. ATG's key operations comprise three in ...

. The play was renamed ''Being Shakespeare'' for its West End debut at the

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, where it opened on 15 June 2011. It was revived at the same theatre in March 2012, prior to a run in New York City and Chicago. In March 2014, it returned to the West End, this time at the

Harold Pinter Theatre The Harold Pinter Theatre, known as the Comedy Theatre until 2011,

. In October 2014, Callow appeared in a comedy sketch made for Channel 4's'' The Feeling Nuts Comedy Night'' to raise awareness of testicular cancer. The same year, he played the recurring role of the fictional Duke of Sandringham in the

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period TV series, '' Outlander''.

Film

He made his first film appearance in 1984 as Schikaneder in ''

''. The following year, he appeared as the Reverend Mr. Beebe in ''

''. His first television role was in the ''

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'' episode "Orgy and Bess" in 1975, but it was cut from the final print. He starred in several series of the

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situation comedy ''

'', as Tom Chance, an eccentric individual to whom coincidences happened regularly. Roles like this and his part in ''

'' brought him to a wider audience. Callow portrayed

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in CBBC's 2007 children's drama series, '' Roman Mysteries'' in the episode "The Secrets of Vesuvius". He played Armand Duquesne in Marvel's Hawkeye on Disney+.

Directing

Callow also directed plays and wrote: his ''Being An Actor'' (1984) was a critique of 'director dominated' theatre, in addition to containing autobiographical sections relating to his early career as an actor. In 1992, he directed the play ''Shades'' by

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and the musical ''

My Fair Lady ''My Fair Lady'' is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play ''Pygmalion'', with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons f ...

'', featuring costumes designed by

Jasper Conran Jasper Alexander Thirlby Conran (born 12 December 1959) is an English designer. He has worked on collections of womenswear and for the home, as well as productions for the stage in ballet, opera and theatre. Early life He is the second son of ...

. In 1995, he directed a stage version of the classic French film ''

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'' for the

Royal Shakespeare Company The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs over 1,000 staff and produces around 20 productions a year. The RSC plays regularly in London, St ...

. Among opera productions directed by Callow are a ''

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'' in Lucerne, ''

Die Fledermaus ' (, ''The Flittermouse'' or ''The Bat'', sometimes called ''The Revenge of the Bat'') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874. Background The original ...

'' for

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in 1988, '' Il tritico'' for the Broomhill Trust, Kent in August 1995, Menotti's ''

The Consul ''The Consul'' is an opera in three acts with music and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, his first full-length opera. Performance history Its first performance was on March 1, 1950 at the Schubert Theatre in Philadelphia with Patricia Neway as the ...

'' at

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, London in 1999 and ''

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'' by Chabrier at

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in 2003. He also directed ''

Carmen Jones ''Carmen Jones'' is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre. Conceptually, it is Bizet's op ...

'' at the Old Vic, London in 1991, with

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in the title role. One of Callow's best-known books is ''Love Is Where It Falls'', an analysis of his 11-year relationship with

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(1908–91), a prominent British theatrical agent from the 1960s to the 1980s. He has also written extensively about

, whom he has played several times: in a one-man show, ''The Mystery of Charles Dickens'' by

Peter Ackroyd Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William ...

; in the films '' Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale'', and '' Christmas Carol: The Movie;'' and on television several times including ''An Audience with Charles Dickens'' (BBC, 1996) and in "

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", a 2005 episode of the

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