Biography
Simon Paisley Day, also credited as Simon Day, is an English stage and screen actor. He was born on 13 April 1967 in Gillingham, Kent. He read Drama and American Literature at the University of East Anglia and trained for two years at the Bristol Old Vic.
Day has appeared in numerous theatre productions, including Shakespeare plays at the National Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe. His television credits include Sherlock (2010) as Major Barrymore, Doctor Who (2005), The Crown (2016) as Meryn Lewis, Red Dwarf (1988) and Midsomer Murders (1997). Film roles include General Quinn in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), Admiral Pound in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) and Mr Shepherd in Persuasion (2022). He played Douglas Carswell in the 2019 television film Brexit: The Uncivil War.
