Simon Grover (born 25 November 1966) is a British actor, writer and communications consultant. He is also a

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as environmentalism and social justice. Green party platforms typically embrace Social democracy, social democratic economic policies and fo ...

councillor on St Albans City & District Council, representing St Peter's ward. As an actor, he played main characters in two BBC children's series: '' Gigglebiz'' and ''

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''. He appeared in the feature film ''

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'' (2010), in which he played a Death Eater. He has also written for children's television series, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''Planet Cook''.

Partial filmography

Political career

Grover has represented St Peter's ward on

St Albans City and District St Albans (), also known as the City and District of St Albans, is a non-metropolitan district with both borough and city status in Hertfordshire, England. Its council is based in St Albans, the largest settlement in the district. The district a ...

council since the 2011 elections, having been re-elected in

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

and

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

. As of the 2023 St Albans City and District Council elections, Grover is no longer the sole Green on the council. He now leads the council's Green Party Group. He was the

's candidate to represent

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in the UK parliament at the 2019 general election, coming fourth, and the

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. Grover came fifth in 2024, but earned 6.3% of the votes, an increase of 4.6% and the highest number of votes for the Green Party in the St Albans constituency.

References

1966 births Living people British male television actors British writers Green Party of England and Wales councillors Politics of St Albans {{UK-screen-actor-stub