Simon Curtis

Simon Curtis is an English director whose work spans theatre, television and film, and I tend to trust filmmakers with that kind of range. Born in London in 1960, he came up through stage and TV before moving into features, and that grounding usually shows in how carefully actors are handled. I always lean toward directors who treat performance as the centre of the frame rather than spectacle. The breadth here is what stands out to me, the willingness to move between mediums rather than settle into one lane, which tends to produce more thoughtful, character-driven storytelling than the resume alone suggests.

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Name (English)

Simon Curtis

Name (Japanese)

サイモン・カーティス

Reading

さいもん・かーてぃす

Born

March 11, 1960 (age 66)

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

film director / film producer / theatre director / director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rat

• Official sitehttp://www.simoncurtis39.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Curtis%20(filmmaker)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q368493

Tags

• film director
• film producer
• theatre director

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.