Simon Geoffrey Feilder is a British comedian, actor, voice artist and content creator. He was a weather presenter and VT reporter on

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and voiced several children's television shows before embarking on a career in stand-up and improv which led to him being cast at Amsterdam's

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comedy theatre. He has appeared in numerous British and Dutch television shows and movies and in 2023 he relocated to Mumbai where he continues to perform onscreen, in projects such as the movie

Jigra ''Jigra'' () is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Vasan Bala, who also co-wrote it with Debashish Irengbam. Produced by Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta, Alia Bhatt, Shaheen Bhatt and Soumen Mishra under Viacom18 Studios ...

and the television show

Freedom at Midnight ''Freedom at Midnight'' (1975) is a book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre about the events around the Indian independence movement and partition. It details the last year of the British Raj, from 1947 to 1948, beginning with the appoin ...

Career

In 2001 Simon entered a talent contest on

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called 'Find Me A Weather Presenter' which he eventually won and became the face of breakfast TV meteorology From 2006 to 2008 he voiced the character Nobby in

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childrens' TV show Jim Jam & Sunny alongside

Justin Fletcher Justin Fletcher (born 15 June 1970) is an English children's television presenter, actor, comedian and singer, known for mainly appearing on CBeebies. Speaking and performing in various, often self-created, roles, he specialises in slapstick ...

and

Bob Golding Bob Golding is an English actor and voice artist. He is best known for the voices of Milo and Max in the CBeebies show ''Tweenies''. Career Television He worked on the CBeebies pre-school children's television series ''Tweenies'' as the voice ...

. Following that he voiced the characters of Plex and Brobee in the UK dub of award-winning show

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. In his nascent years as a stand-up comedian, Simon was a finalist in The

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New Act of the Year, Amused Moose Comedy Awards and a Semi-Finalist in the

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s. Between 2009 and 2016 Simon took five shows to the

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: * ''Life of Si'' - with

Sy Thomas Simon George Thomas (born 24 August 1979 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) is a British TV presenter, stand-up comedian and actor. Early years and career Thomas attended Aberystwyth University, Wales, where he studied drama from 1998 to 2001 a ...

* ''Life of Si: Si Harder'' - the follow-up * ''AAA Stand-Up'' - A triple-hander package show selected by comedy promotor Bound & Gagged, featuring Feilder along with Joe Rowntree and Pat Burtscher * ''All The Things I'm Not'' - His debut solo show * ''Die Trying'' - 2nd solo show loosely based on his

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series of the same name In 2010 Simon and Sy Thomas also appeared at the inaugural

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as part of 'The British Invasion' where they were awarded Best Comedy In 2014 Simon was the co-host of the

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Show on

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. He would later support Taylor on several of her solo stand-up tours. Re-united with

, in 2016-2017 the pair produced a series of comedy videos for kids' comic

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, under the banner of 'Simon & Simon's Guide To...' In 2018 he wrote and acted in the short film 'Renaissance', which was directed by Ben Mallaby and selected for Encounters Film Festival and the Harlem Hip-Hop Film Festival among others. In 2018 Simon joined the cast of

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comedy theatre where he created and performed in numerous improv, sketch and musical shows, shared stages with

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, Arjen Lubach,

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and the mayor of Amsterdam Famke Halseme In 2021 Simon started a

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dedicated to ( DTV) action movies called ''Dodge This'' where he and comedian friend Matthew Highton would talk about international and niche action movies. In later episodes Simon is joined by other comedians and film-makers and occasionally interviews up-and-coming action directors such as James Nunn and Will Gilbey. 2022 saw Simon feature in the Dutch nostalgic reboot movie

Costa! ''Costa!'' is a 2001 Dutch romantic comedy film directed by soap producer Johan Nijenhuis. It was the first movie that used several famous Dutch soap stars. Other movies that used soap actors, were '' Volle maan'' and ''Honeyz''. The televisio ...

In August 2023 Simon relocated to

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and has been writing about his time via a

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newsletter In 2024 he appeared in the

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movie

JIGRA ''Jigra'' () is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Vasan Bala, who also co-wrote it with Debashish Irengbam. Produced by Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta, Alia Bhatt, Shaheen Bhatt and Soumen Mishra under Viacom18 Studios ...

alongside

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and the TV series

Freedom At Midnight ''Freedom at Midnight'' (1975) is a book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre about the events around the Indian independence movement and partition. It details the last year of the British Raj, from 1947 to 1948, beginning with the appoin ...

References

External links

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British Comedy Guide
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