Simon Callow

Simon Phillip Hugh Callow CBE[1] (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, director, and writer.

Callow was born on 15 June 1949 in Streatham, London, the son of Yvonne Mary (née Guise), a secretary, and Neil Francis Callow, a businessman.[2] His father was of English and French descent and his mother was of Danish and German ancestry.[3] He was raised as a Roman Catholic.[3] Callow was educated at the London Oratory School and then went on to study at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, where he was active in the Northern Ireland civil-rights movement, before giving up his degree course to train at the Drama Centre London.