Simon Lyndon is an acclaimed British-born Australian actor and director, best known for his award-winning performance as Jimmy Loughnan in the cult classic film Chopper (2000), for which he won an Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Supporting Actor. Born in London in 1971 and raised in Fremantle, Western Australia, he graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) before making significant impacts in both film and television. His diverse credits include standout roles in the 1997 drama Blackrock, Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998), and the 2001 telemovie My Brother Jack, for which he earned another AFI nomination. In addition to recurring television roles in series such as Puberty Blues, Mystery Road, and Mr Inbetween, Lyndon made his feature film directorial debut with the 2024 rural drama Just a Farmer.