[2][3] He wrote, produced and directed three films, and as an actor he has performed in around 40 titles.
[4] Simmons has worked as actor and stuntman in various television programs such as Law & Order, New York Undercover,[5] The Wire, Third Watch, Oz,[6] Hack, The Sopranos, Law & Order SVU, The David Letterman Show, Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, The Good Wife, Orange is the New Black, and House of Cards.
[7] Some of Simmons's feature film credits include Deja Vu,[8] American Gangster,[9] A Bronx Tale,[10] Tower Heist,[11] Ray (where he stunt doubled Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles),[12] Spike Lee's Inside Man,[13] Precious,[14] Find Me Guilty,[15] The Purge: Election Year[16] and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
Jump Offs (2007),[18] Women Do it Better (2009)[19][20] and Nobody's Perfect (2016),[21][22] hosted by Cannes World Cinema Initiative.
[25] In 2016 he was nominated as a member of the stunts crew of The Blacklist in the category Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series in the Screen Actors Guild Awards.