Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, musician, writer, and theatre director. Read full biography of Simon Callow →
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I... →
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about... →
I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the... →
I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever... →
Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his... →
There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect... →
When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be... →
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, musician, writer, and theatre director.