Simon Paisley Day

Simon Paisley Day (born 13 April 1967), also credited as Simon Day, is an English stage and screen actor.

Early life Paisley Day was born in Gillingham, Kent. He read Drama and American Literature at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. Afterwards, Paisley Day undertook training at Bristol Old Vic for two years before embarking on a career as an actor.

Career Paisley is a well-established theatre actor and has performed in plays such as The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, The Crucible and Troilus and Cressida. His television credits include Sherlock, Being Human, Midsomer Murders Doctor Who and Spartacus. His big-screen credits include The Eagle of the Ninth, The Queen of Sheba's Pearls and Churchill: The Hollywood Years.

His most recent work includes Timon of Athens (2008), Entertaining Mr Sloane (2009), Private Lives (2010), Twelfth Night (National Theatre, 2011), The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare's Globe, 2012) and portraying Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon in the 2012 ITV period drama Titanic.

Personal life Paisley Day lives in Whitstable, with his wife and two children.

Film Year Title Character Production 2004 Churchill: The Hollywood Years Larry Little Bird 2004 The Queen of Sheba's Pearls Headmaster Evans AB Svensk Filmindustri 2007 Flawless Boland Future Films 2011 The Eagle Surgeon Focus Features 2011 The Painting Man Inclusive Media 2014 Pudsey the Dog: The Movie Reverend Treeboys Vertigo Films 2014 The Falling Psychiatrist Cannon and Morley Productions 2017 Victoria & Abdul Mr. Tyler BBC Films 2019 Brexit: The Uncivil War Douglas Carswell Channel 4 / HBO 2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker General Domaric Quinn Lucasfilm Ltd. and Bad Robot 2023 Shé (Snake) Mr. Grimsby A Minor, National Film and Television School 2025 Kesari Chapter 2 General Reginald Dyer Dharma ProductionsCape of Good FilmsLeo Media Collective

Theatre Year Title Character Production Director 2017 The Lorax by David Greig The Once-ler Royal Alexandra Theatre Max Webster 2014 Urinetown by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis Caldwell B. Cladwell St. James Theatre, London Jamie Lloyd 2013 The Low Road by Bruce Norris Various Royal Court Theatre Dominic Cooke 2012 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Petruchio Shakespeare's Globe Toby Frow 2011 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Malvolio National Theatre Sir Peter Hall 2010 Private Lives by Noël Coward Victor Vaudeville Theatre Sir Richard Eyre 2009 Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton Ed Trafalgar Studios Nick Bagnall 2008 Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare Timon The Globe Lucy Bailey 2007 The Ugly One by Marius von Mayenburg Scheffler Royal Court Theatre Ramin Gray 2007 Don't Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier John Sheffield Theatre and Lyric Hammersmith Lucy Bailey 2007 The 39 Steps by John Buchan Hannay Criterion Theatre Maria Aitken 2005 The Philanthropist by Christopher Hampton Braham Donmar Warehouse David Grindley 2005 Cymbeline by William Shakespeare Iachimo Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Rachel Kavanaugh 2005 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Feste Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Timothy Sheader 2003 Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare King Ferdinand of Navarre National Theatre Sir Trevor Nunn 2003 Anything Goes by Cole Porter Lord Evelyn Oakley National Theatre Sir Trevor Nunn 2002 The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard Nicholas Ogarev National Theatre Sir Trevor Nunn 2001 Hamlet by William Shakespeare Horatio National Theatre John Caird 2000 Candide from the book by Voltaire Maximilian National Theatre John Caird 1999 Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare Ajax National Theatre Sir Trevor Nunn 1999 Money by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sir Frederick Blount National Theatre John Caird 1998 Oh! What A Lovely War by Joan Littlewood Henry Wilson National Theatre Fiona Laird 1996 By Jeeves by Alan Ayckbourn Gussie Fink-Nottle Lyric Theatre Sir Alan Ayckbourn 1992 A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde Lord Alfred RSC Philip Prowse

TV Year Title Character Production Notes 2022 This England Dominic Cummings Sky Atlantic 2020 Alex Rider Dr. Baxter Netflix 2020 Miracle Workers King Trex TBS Season 2, episode 5: "Holiday" 2017 The Crown Meryn Lewis Netflix 2015 Doctor Who Rump BBC Episode: "Face the Raven" 2014 The Musketeers Cluzet BBC Episode: "The Good Soldier" 2012 Titanic Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon ITV Episode Two and Four 2012 Sherlock Major Barrymore BBC Series 2, "The Hounds of Baskerville" 2011 Hustle Consultant BBC Series 7, "The Fall of Railton FC" 2010 Being Human Alan Cortez BBC Season 2, episode 6 2008 Midsomer Murders Randall Colquhoun ITV Blood Wedding 2007 The Relief of Belsen Major Stadler Channel 4 TV movie 2006 The Catherine Tate Show Mr Aga Saga BBC Season 3, episode 6 2006 Hotel Babylon Mr Austin BBC Season 1, episode 1 2005 Space Race Kammler BBC TV series documentary, Race to the Moon 2005 The Last Detective Bald Man ITV Towpaths of Glory 2005 The Bill Martin Glass ITV Season 21, episode 31 2005 Doctor Who Steward BBC Episode: "The End of the World" 2004 Shane Suicide Steve ITV Season 1, episode 6 2004 He Knew He Was Right Sir Henry Woddis BBC 2004 Spartacus Orsino USA Network TV movie 2002 Bertie and Elizabeth Arthur Wood ITV TV movie 1995 Wycliffe SOCCO ITV Lost Contact 1995 Pie in the Sky Roger BBC Lemon Twist 1994 The Knock Jeremy Pointon ITV Season 1, episode 6 1994 Peak Practice ITV Long Weekend 1994 The House of Eliott Harry BBC Season 3, episode 2 1993 London's Burning ITV Season 6, episode 8 1992 Casualty Heart surgeon BBC Body and Soul 1992 Red Dwarf Cdr. Randy Navarro BBC Series 5, "Holoship"