John Simm is one of our very best actors. The Leeds-born, 52-year-old actor has been on our TV and film screens since the early 1990s and is best known for playing Detective Sam Tyler in BBC's Life on Mars, which had a huge following when it ran for two series from 2006-2007.
Now John is back on prime time as Brighton-based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, for a new series of ITV crime drama Grace in which he stars opposite Richie Campbell, Craig Parkinson and Zoe Tapper, more on that, here. But if you only know John for his serious TV roles, you may be surprised that he shot to fame, after a solid start on TV shows like The Lakes, Cracker and The Bill, thanks to a Cardiff-set film about the rave culture in the 1990s.
Human Traffic starred John front and centre as Jip, a party boy who lived for the weekend in Justin Kerrigan's brilliant documentation of life for the clubbing generation that also starred Danny Dyer, Shaun Parkes and Lorraine Pilkington.
