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Hall H panels, activations, and more can't-miss moments from Comic-Con 2025.

Photos We Love: San Diego Comic-Con 2025

Hall H panels, activations, and more can&#39;t-miss moments from Comic-Con 2025.

Mika Simmons and Jethro Skinner in US AMONG THE STONES 2019

Disruption (MIKA SIMMONS) at the Park Theatre, LONDON 2023

Mika Simmons attends BFI Luminous Gala 2022

Prudence (MIKA SIMMONS) Henrietta (ANNA POPPLEWELL) Frenchman’s Creek (ITV / PBS) 1998

Prudence (MIKA SIMMONS) Frenchman’s Creek (ITV / PBS) 1998

James Thornley (KERR LOGAN), Amanda Wilkinson (MIKA SIMMONS) in Showtrial 2023 Credit: BBC/World Productions

Westminster Girls 2013 (PUBLICITY SHOT) Mika Simmons (Jess) Amy Joint (Rosie) Mark Frost (Dennis)

Westminster Girls 2013 (REHEARSAL SHOT) Mika Simmons (Jess), Paul Wyatt (Director)

Poppy Delevingne, Chloe Delevingne, Mika Simmons, Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month September 2017 for Lady Garden Foundation Charity number: 1154755

Mika Simmons, Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month September 2017 for Lady Garden Foundation Charity number: 1154755

My Week With Maisy private screening at The Electric Cinema

Mika Simmons in US AMONGST THE STONES 2018

Mika Simmons attends the Huntsmen Gregory Peck launch, June 2014  

Mika Simmons is a British actress of Irish and Canadian-Swedish descent. Born in Greenwich she spent her early years in South East London before a family move to Somerset. Mika studied English Literature and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds then went onto train at Drama Studio.

Work includes BBC's Showtrial, ITV's Frenchman's Creek, Channel 4's Unforgotten and BAFTA award winning Falling Apart, Film London's Balcony which went on to win the Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and BFI nominated Dictynna Hood's Us Among the Stones.

Her directorial debut Rain Stops Play, won the Silver Remi for best comedy at Houston World Film Festival and has been nominated at BAFTA qualifying Underwire Festival and CBFF. Mika won the award for Best International Director for her second short film Breach at Portland Comedy Festival, which premiered at BAFTA qualifying BUFF in November 2021. Her most recent work as Director, My Week With Maisy, won best diversity and women's film at Cleveland International Film Festival and Mika was long listed as Best Director at the British Short Film Awards.

She founded the Lady Garden Foundation in 2014 in honour of her late Mother, Rosemary Brennan, to raise funds for research into personalised treatment of Gynaecological Cancers by Dr Susana Banerjee at The Royal Marsden Hospital in London.

In 2021 Mika was chosen by Harpers Bazaar's as one of their female Visionaries and honoured by You Magazine's women of the year and was listed as one of Mail on Sunday's YOU Magazine's 21 Women of 21.

Her older brother, Keir Simmons, is the Chief Foreign Correspondent for NBC News and The Today Show.

A keen interest in alternative health as a way to keep mentally and physically well, Mika also holds a qualification as a Craniosacral Therapist and Yoga Teacher.

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