Simon Lyndon (born February 1971, in London is an Australian actor who grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. He is a WAAPA graduate. He played Jimmy Loughlin in Chopper with Eric Bana, for which he won an AFI award for Best Supporting Actor[1] and a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for best supporting actor.[2] He received AFI nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Blackrock[1] (as "Ricko") and Best actor in a telefeature or mini-series for his role in My Brother Jack.[3] Other films include Fresh Air, Sample People, The Thin Red Line, From the Outside[4] Caught Inside,[5] Falling into Paradise,[6] The Glenmore Job[7] The Well and Dust off the Wings[8] He has appeared on stage That Eye the Sky, Blackrock, Cloudstreet and Popcorn.[4] His TV appearances include Police Rescue, Heartbreak High, Wildside,[4] Underbelly[9] Canal Road[10] and Spirited 2 [Foxtel].[11] He has directed Tamarama Rock Surfers production of "Road" featuring among others Bojana Novacovitch, Jeremy Cumpston, Zena Cumpston and Angie Milliken and Tamaram Rock Surfers production of " Diary of a Madman" starring Alan Morris.
In 2011 he played a younger Jack Thompson in" Paper Giants - The Birth of Cleo Magazine", on ABC 1. He plays the miner who died in the upcoming TV film about the Beaconsfield mine disaster.