Simon Manyonda

Simon Manyonda is a British Television, Theatre and Film Actor known for Doctor Who, King Lear, The Bay and His Dark Materials. He has worked with some of the worlds finest directors and actors including Sam Mendes, Glenda Jackson, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Eyre and Nicholas Hytner to name but a few. He is committed to working with young artists and serves as a Board Member for Theatre Peckham. Simon Manyonda was born in South East, London the eldest son of General Practitioner of Medicine and a Gynaecologist and Obstetrician. At an early age Manyonda developed speech impediments which rendered him a quiet and watchful child. After attending speech therapy for many years and gaining confidence in his speech, he began a secondary school drama class and found all that he had quietly observed over the years very useful in portraying the many characters he went on to improvise and portray in school plays. It was in these drama classes that Manyonda began to get a sense of himself and des