and Simon told Oddey that, like playing Rosaline, meeting Miller was one of the key moments in her career, and the experience helped her to focus on her work and disregard distractions. Simon portrayed Vittoria in the Royal National Theatre's The White Devil in 1991. Simon returned to the RSC in 1999 as Queen Elizabeth in Don Carlos. Nightingale described her performance as " vivid and vital". Next, she was Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Financial Times reviewer wrote that Simon spoke "Titania's lines with an almost jazz musicality, dances, moves, and stands with compelling power. Her stance alone is more regal than that of several of today's ballerinas." Paul Taylor of The Independent called the production's Nicolas Jones and Simon " the sexiest, most commanding Oberon and Titania of recent years". In 2017, Simon took the role of Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra for the RSC. Michael Billington wrote for The Guardian that "Simon seems born to play Cleopatra and she gives us a hypnotically mercurial figure whose eroticism is expressed through a permanent restlessness", although he felt that Simon employed too many voices in the role. Making a similar criticism about the range of accents used, Ian Shuttleworth of the Financial Times felt that Simon failed to play to her strengths as an actor, and concluded that "On the occasion of Simon's first RSC appearance this century, she is heartbreaking in all the wrong ways." Ann Treneman of The Times felt that Simon, with a performance that was "quite bonkers" at times, provided the highlight of the show, despite a "lamentable lack of chemistry" between her and Anthony Byrne as Antony. Other roles In 1992 Simon was the lead, and sang, in David Zane Mairowitz's play Dictator Gal, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1992. Her character is married to an exiled dictator who is dying in hospital. Simon's character sings a range of songs, including Richard Wagner and Motown compositions in an attempt to revive him. Her performance garnered a Prix Futura Award nomination. Simon's film appearances include the part of Dr. Ramphele in Cry Freedom (1987). She was nominated for a Genie Awards Best Actress award for Milk and Honey (1988), in which she played Joanna, who leaves Jamaica with her child to work as a nanny in Toronto. Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail wrote that Simons "riveting performance ... carries the