---
name: "Simon Amstell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/simon-amstell"
fi1m_id: "simon-amstell"
imdb_id: "nm0025435"
tmdb_id: 1221053
wikidata_id: "Q978769"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 November 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T13:40:59.079060+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Simon Amstell

## Identity

Simon Amstell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/simon-amstell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** simon-amstell
- **IMDb ID:** nm0025435
- **TMDB ID:** 1221053
- **Wikidata ID:** Q978769
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Amstell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q978769, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025435/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221053

Actor. Born 29 November 1979 in Gants Hill, Essex, England.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 November 1979, Gants Hill, Essex, England
- **Active:** 2007–2011
- **Also known as:** Simon Marc Amstell
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 writing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 72 (1), 2010s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Amstell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q978769, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025435/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221053

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Skins*](https://film.one/tv/skins.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Simon Amstell is an English comedian, writer, director, actor and television presenter. He co-wrote an episode of the series *Skins* in 2007.

Amstell presented *Popworld* on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2006 and *Never Mind the Buzzcocks* on BBC Two from 2006 to 2009. He created, co-wrote and starred in the BBC Two sitcom *Grandma's House* (2010–2012). He wrote and directed the films *Carnage* (2017) and *Benjamin* (2018).

Born Simon Marc Amstell on 29 November 1979 in Gants Hill, Essex, he began performing stand-up comedy as a teenager.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *Black Pond* (2011), Fi1m 74, as Eric Sacks — [page](https://film.one/film/black-pond.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *Skins* (2007), Fi1m 72, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Stalker* (2021), as Stag (voice)
- *Simon Amstell: Set Free* (2019), Writer
- *Benjamin* (2019), Director, Writer
- *The Silent Man* (2018), as Aaron
- *How to Talk to Girls at Parties* (2017), as Cafe Server
- *Carnage: Swallowing the Past* (2017), Narrator, Writer, Director
- *Simon Amstell: Numb - Live at the BBC* (2012), Writer
- *Black Pond* (2011), as Eric Sacks — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/black-pond.md)
- *Skins* (2011), series, Story
- *Simon Amstell: Do Nothing - Live* (2010), Writer
- *Grandma's House* (2010), series, as Simon · Writer, Creator
- *Skins* (2007), series, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)
- *The Morning After Show* (2005), series, Actor
- *Never Mind the Buzzcocks* (1996), series, Writer
- *Maria*, Writer, Director, Executive Producer

## Gallery

- ![Simon Amstell](https://film.one/media/person/101538/gallery-06ef63d2d773.jpg) Simon Amstell — Steph Laing from London, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Simon_Amstell_stand_up.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![SAmstellLeicSq270917-2 (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/101538/gallery-1de3fbf1293f.jpg) SAmstellLeicSq270917-2 (2017) — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Simon_Amstell_-_Leicester_Square_Theatre_-_Wednesday_27th_September_2017_SAmstellLeicSq270917-2_%2836702021874%29.jpg/1280px-Simon_Amstell_-_Leicester_Square_Theatre_-_Wednesday_27th_September_2017_SAmstellLeicSq270917-2_%2836702021874%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![SAmstellLeicSq270917-3 (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/101538/gallery-360bc6550e9b.jpg) SAmstellLeicSq270917-3 (2017) — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Simon_Amstell_-_Leicester_Square_Theatre_-_Wednesday_27th_September_2017_SAmstellLeicSq270917-3_%2837363945146%29.jpg/1280px-Simon_Amstell_-_Leicester_Square_Theatre_-_Wednesday_27th_September_2017_SAmstellLeicSq270917-3_%2837363945146%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![SAmstellLeicSq270917-4 (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/101538/gallery-e37307f66f31.jpg) SAmstellLeicSq270917-4 (2017) — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Simon_Amstell_-_Leicester_Square_Theatre_-_Wednesday_27th_September_2017_SAmstellLeicSq270917-4_%2836702021114%29.jpg/1280px-Simon_Amstell_-_Leicester_Square_Theatre_-_Wednesday_27th_September_2017_SAmstellLeicSq270917-4_%2836702021114%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![SAmstellLeicSq270917-5 (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/101538/gallery-8a7a977c63eb.jpg) SAmstellLeicSq270917-5 (2017) — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Simon_Amstell_-_Leicester_Square_Theatre_-_Wednesday_27th_September_2017_SAmstellLeicSq270917-5_%2837363944296%29.jpg/1280px-Simon_Amstell_-_Leicester_Square_Theatre_-_Wednesday_27th_September_2017_SAmstellLeicSq270917-5_%2837363944296%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![SAmstellLeicSq270917 (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/101538/gallery-828b2c0a06ee.jpg) SAmstellLeicSq270917 (2017) — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Simon_Amstell_-_Leicester_Square_Theatre_-_Wednesday_27th_September_2017_SAmstellLeicSq270917_%2837363945816%29.jpg/1280px-Simon_Amstell_-_Leicester_Square_Theatre_-_Wednesday_27th_September_2017_SAmstellLeicSq270917_%2837363945816%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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