Biography

Simon Anthony Abou-Fadel was not bitten by the acting bug in college. He was swallowed whole. Since then he has either acted in, directed or produced some 60 projects on both screen and stage.

He was born in North Hollywood, California and raised outside of Houston, Texas. Perhaps most poignantly he remembers the nights he and his older brother would wait up to watch the family's garage door in NoHo for the first flickering reflections from what he thought was the screen of the nearby drive-in movie. Who knows, it could have all been his imagination.

From those nights, he marks his fascination with movie screens, with the actors who inhabit them, and with the industry that was then only a few streets away. Throughout a decade in Hollywood he thankfully found himself working amidst the actors he revered and on the big screens that fascinated him in his youth.

Simon was a company member at The Actors' Gang Theatre in Los Angeles, California, with Artistic Director and film actor Tim Robbins. During his seven years with the Gang, he toured nationally in Embedded, an original play by Robbins, and appeared in a critically acclaimed production of Tartuffe (Valère) directed by Jon Kellam in which he was reviewed by the Hollywood Reporter that touted his "strong support". Backstage also affectionately praised him and scene partner Lindsley Allen for their scenes, and the Los Angeles Times claimed Allen and he "attained absolute lunacy".

Simon accepted an invitation from the Walt Disney Concert Hall to act in a two-person play with the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra providing live background music. In addition to a breadth of television credits, he is also the narrator for the new IMAX film entitled Train Time and plays food critic William Douchet in Chuck Russell's (The Mask) new movie Witchboard.
- IMDb mini biography by: R Buckland