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Currently, Simon Frederick is 66 years, 5 months and 28 days old. Simon Frederick will celebrate 67rd birthday on a Saturday 24th of May 2025. Below we countdown to Simon Frederick upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Simon Frederick |
| Occupation | Director |
| Age | 66 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
| Born | May 24, 1958 () |
| Birthday | May 24 |
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Simon Frederick’s zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.
Simon Frederick was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Born in London, of parents from the Caribbean island of Grenada. Self-taught, he has none of the conventions that academia, tradition and technique sometimes dictate. Simon's flair for visuals and multidisciplinary approach involves a creative expression that lives outside the boundaries, That often sees him walking against the tide of the popularly held opinion or perspective; His work provokes us, in some instances, helping us see from different perspectives.
This is a constant feature of his work; The focus of which, is the visual exploration of people and culture, and the facets of human nature that makes us feel, that engenders his work memorable. Highly regarded to be at the vanguard of his discipline, with a career punctuated by firsts; Simon has made recent television appearances on Sky Arts, as the lead judge of their debut pan European series Master of Photography, which he co-hosted with Hollywood royalty Isabella Rossellini.
He conceived, produced and directed the award winning series Black Is The New Black, for BBC Two, with the portfolio of portrait's that he shot of his subjects during the filming of the show, making history as the largest acquisition of African-Caribbean sitters by the National Portrait Gallery, to become part of the Gallery's permanent collection.
The gallery's director, Nicholas Cullinan, said the portraits were striking and "powerfully reflect the diversity and variety of contemporary British achievement in public life". The highlights of 2018 have seen Simon, delivering a new critically acclaimed documentary series, entitled They've Gotta Have Us for BBC TWO, as well as the opening of his Black Is The New Black, exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
Simon was honoured to be recently profiled amongst 2019's 100 'Most Influential Black Britons' in the category of Media,Publishing, & Entertainment alongside Vogue's Vanessa Kingori and Edward Enninful, Artist and Director Steve McQueen, Actor David Harewood, Novelist Zadie Smith and Actor, Comedian and co-founder of charity Comic Relief Sir Lenny Henry.
