Simon Stephen Shepherd (born 20 August 1956) is an English actor best known to TV audiences from many appearances, including as Dr Will Preston in eight series of ITV's Peak Practice and Doctor Jonathan Barling in Casualty.
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.
[7] In 1993 he appeared in Poirot (“Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan”) as Andrew Hall and in Peak Practice.
[12] The show is a political farce based on the UK parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009 and played a five-week tour in October 2013 before transferring to London's Vaudeville Theatre through spring 2014.