Background
Shepherd was born in Bristol, England.
Shepherd was born in Bristol, England.
He subsequently attended Manchester Metropolitan University and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and was a member of the National Youth Theatre.
He is best known to television audiences from many appearances, including as Doctor Will Preston in five series of Independent Television"s Peak Practice. He went to school at Clifton College in Bristol and was a contemporary of the director Roger Michell in Brown"s House. As well as his television appearances he has had many notable stage and film roles since 1980, including as Lord Ashbrook in the 2011 Bristol Old Vic production of Helen Edmundson"s Coram Boy.
Simon Shepherd was regularly mentioned in the British Broadcasting Corporation comedy Gimme Gimme Gimme as Tom"s crush and appeared as himself in an episode of each series.
On 16 February 2011 Simon Shepherd guest-starred in the 200th episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation television Drama Doctors. He played the role of Sir Norman Cavendish in the play The Duck House by Dan Patterson and Colin Swash, starring alongside Ben Miller and Diana Vickers.
The show is a political farce based on the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009 and played a five-week tour in October 2013 before transferring to London"s Vaudeville Theatre through Spring 2014.