Alisdair Simpson is a British actor, voice-over artist and narrator. He has a distinctive, masculine voice, making him a popular and recognisable narrator of documentaries on television.
Simpson went to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and graduated in 1995.
His professional stage debut was at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in Tartuffe by Molière. He went on to work at Stratford and London in The White Devil, Troilus and Cressida and Three Hours after Marriage (1996/97) for the RSC.
He played the King of France in Yukio Ninagawa's 1999/2000 production of King Lear in Tokyo, London and Stratford and Captain Horster in Trevor Nunn's 1997 production of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People at the National Theatre and the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
He was Achilles in Troilus and Cressida for Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol in 2003. Other roles include Roy in Neville's Island at the Watermill Theatre, Gerald Croft on tour in Stephen Daldry's An Inspector Calls and Richard in The Years Between at the Royal in Northampton. In 2008 he appeared at the Young Vic in an opera based on David Lynch's Lost Highway. From 2014–2016 he played Chapman Carter in War Horse at The New London Theatre.
On television he has appeared in programmes such as Game of Thrones, No Bananas, Soldier Soldier, Men Behaving Badly, Teachers, Spooks, The Worst Week of My Life, Broken News, The Bill, Casualty and Dream Team.
| Date of Birth | 31st December 1969 |
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| Age | 54 Years |
| Zodiac Sign | Capricorn |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Education |
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| Bristol Old Vic Theatre School |
| Occupation | actor, television actor |
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