Simon Paisley Day

Simon Paisley Day's musical theatre credits include Urinetown (St James Theatre and West End) and Anything Goes (National Theatre and West End). In 2015, he plays the Once-ler in the Old Vic musical adaptation of Dr Seuss's The Lorax.

Simon Paisley Day is a British screen and stage actor. Simon has an extensive list of film and television credits including Tommy’s Honor, The Falling, Pudsey: The Movie, Family Tree, Dr. Who (Series 9), The Musketeers, Sherlock – Hound of the Baskervilles, Doc Martin (Series 5), Hustle, Being Human, Midsomer Murders, The Belsen Redeption, The Bill, The Catherine Tate Show and portraying Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon in the ITV mini-series, Titanic. On stage, Simon’s theatrical credits include Urinetown, The Taming of the Shrew, Timon of Athens (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Low Road (ETT / Royal Court), Twelfth Night (National Theatre), Private Lives (Theatre Royal Both), The Ugly One (Royal Court Theatre), Don’t Look Now (Sheffield Theatre / Lyric Hammersmith), The 39 Steps (Fiery Angel), The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse), Cymbeline, Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Anything Goes (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Love’s Labour’s Lost, Anything Goes, The Coast of Utopia, Hamlet, Candide, Money and Oh What a Lovely War (National Theatre). Simon has also published two plays: Spike at Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre in 2001, and Raving at Hampstead Theatre in 2013, which starred Robert Webb and Tamzin Outhwaite.