Simon Kassianides
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Simon Mario Kassianides 7 August 1979 London, England |
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Simon Kassianides (born 7 August 1979) is an English actor of Greek Origin, film director, producer and screenwriter.
Kassianides was born in London, the son of Helen and Mario Kassianides, both business owners. Kassianides has an older brother Photis Kassianides who works in finance.
Kassianides was brought up in Clapham and educated at Dulwich College. At the University of Edinburgh he was the producer and executive producer of a sold out run of Grease at the George Square theatre. Profits were donated to the Macmillan Cancer Trust.
In 2002 soon after Kassianides graduated with honours in International Business with Finance and while in London helping his mother open Urban Coffee, a fair trade and organic coffee shop in Tooting Broadway, he was spotted by BAFTA award winning producer Piers Vellacott.
Kassianides started a course at London's Central School of Speech and Drama but had to leave after being offered a role in the Tennessee Williams' play Night of the Iguana. His performance as Pedro was acclaimed by critics.
Soon after, Kassianides was noted as an actor to watch in a BBC documentary called Making it at Holby.
Since then, Kassianides has appeared in a number of television episodes in the USA and UK, including Casualty, My Life in Film, Plane Spotting, Ultimate Force, Spooks, Recovery, Holby Blue, Suburban Shootout, The Kylie Show, Ashes to Ashes, The Passion, The Fixer, Love Soup, Hustle, Law and Order UK, Nikita and Burn Notice.
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