picture" for the first part, but felt that from the second act onward, the film descended into histrionics. In the San Francisco Chronicle, Judy Stone praised Simon's performance as Joanna, commenting that "she displays a quality of grace all too rare in today's films". The 1992 television play Bitter Harvest had Simon in the lead role, as a woman who has gone missing after travelling to the Dominican Republic as an aid worker and whose parents go there in search of her. Academic Claire Tylee considered that Simon's character was a "credible protagonist", the film was adversely affected by a mismatch between the thriller plotline from the production's originator Charles Pattinson and the thread about tensions in a mixed race family introduced by Winsome Pinnock, who has joined the project after Simon had already accepted the leading role based on a plot outline by Pattinson. According to Tylee, neither Simon's character or the character of her father "sufficiently resembles the usual hero of a thriller to successfully play on thriller conventions, and the plots end by humiliating both of them, fetishising the black female body along the way." In 1993, Simon starred alongside Brenda Fricker in the two-part television series Seekers, written by Lynda La Plante. Their characters discover that they are both married to the same man, who has now disappeared. They later work as partners in the detective agency that he had founded. Lynda Gilbey of Sunday Life wrote that the show was "a first class detective drama ... beautifully plotted, wonderfully performed". The Newcastle Journal reviewer Norman Davison commented that the two lead actresses "invested the roles with the sort of power that all La Plante women seem to have and the men were all the wimps". Benedict Nightingale of The Times wrote in a negative review of Jean Genet's play The Maids in 1997 that Simon provided the "one strong performance". In 2019 she appeared as Cynthia in the science fiction series Nightflyers, and as Grams in the movie Detective Pikachu. She had a recurring role in Anatomy of a Scandal in 2022. Simon has played senior police officers in Silent Witness (1998), Minder (2009), and Broadchurch (2017), and has been cast as Chief Commissioner Camberwell in the Anansi Boys'', which was in production as of May 2022. Personal life Simon visits patients, with her dog Milo, through the charity Pets As Therapy, and supports the