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Simon Callow is best known as a character actor on stage and screen, particularly for originating the role of Mozart in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus at the National Theatre in 1979, and for his comedic roles in A Room with a View and Four Weddings and a Funeral. He has received an Olivier Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two BAFTA nominations.
Simon Callow was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1999 Birthday Honours, awarded by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to acting.
In Milos Forman's 1984 film Amadeus, Simon Callow played Emanuel Schikaneder. Callow had originally played Mozart in the stage premiere of Peter Shaffer's play at the National Theatre in 1979, but took the different role of Schikaneder for the film adaptation.
Simon Callow came out as gay in his 1984 book Being An Actor. He later described it as probably one of the most valuable things he had done in his life, noting that no actor had voluntarily done so before him.
Simon Callow has written biographies of Oscar Wilde, Charles Laughton, Orson Welles, and Richard Wagner. He has also written Love Is Where It Falls, about his eleven-year relationship with theatrical agent Peggy Ramsay, and has contributed articles to Gramophone and The New York Review of Books.
Simon Callow starred as Tom Chance in the Channel 4 sitcom Chance in a Million from 1984 to 1986, appearing across nineteen episodes. He played an eccentric individual to whom coincidences happened regularly.