Simon Shepherd

Simon Shepherd is an English actor, born in Bristol, whose screen and stage work dates back to 1980. He studied at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and he was also part of the National Youth Theatre. Television viewers know him for his eight-series run as Dr Will Preston on ITV's Peak Practice and for playing Dr Jonathan Barling in Casualty. His film work includes Henry V (1989), Wuthering Heights (1992), in which he played Edgar Linton, and Rogue Trader (1999). Other television credits include Catherine Cookson's Tilly Trotter in 1999, Father Brown in 2017, and a 2022 Midsomer Murders episode, The Scarecrow Murders. On stage, his roles included Lord Ashbrook in Bristol Old Vic's 2011 staging of Coram Boy, Chief Inspector Dermott Craddock in The Mirror Crack'd in 2019, and a tour with The Duck House before it reached London's Vaudeville Theatre in 2014.