Simone Lahbib

Actor

Simone Nicole Jean Lahbib Ould Cheikl (born February 6, 1965) is a Scottish actress. She is known for her roles as Helen Stewart in the ITV drama series Bad Girls, DCI Alex Fielding in the ITV crime series Wire in the Blood and Katy Lewis in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Lahbib trained in drama at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University. She then commenced her on-screen career in 1985 when she was cast in The Girl in the Picture, a film set in Glasgow directed by Cary Parker. She also sang on the soundtrack. Lahbib has worked extensively in television and film, after starting her career predominantly in theatre. Following guest appearances on well-known television dramas such as Taggart and Dangerfield. Lahbib is the mother of British actress Skye Lucia Degruttola.

06-02-1965

Birthday

Aquarius

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Also known as (female)

Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK

Place of Birth

06-02-1965

Birthday

Aquarius

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (female)

Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK

Place of Birth

Popular works

Media

Creative career

actor

7 Works

producer

2 Works

director

2 Works

writer

0 Works

other

0 Works

Transference: A Bipolar Love Story

Katarina, a Norwegian nurse in London, embarks on a passionate affair with a fellow immigrant nurse that suffers the consequences of unresolved mental health issues from the lovers' secret pasts.

5.6

Year:

2020

Philomena

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

7.4

Year:

2013

The Other Side of My Sleep

This half-hour poignant drama is both touching and often funny as it explores the complexities of voluntary euthanasia.

8.0

Year:

2010

Red Mercury

Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The police have been alerted and they are under suspicion.

4.0

Year:

2005

Heartless

Comedy drama about a vain barrister who undergoes a personality change after having a heart transplant. Believing that this could be linked to the character of the donor, he travels to a village in Scotland to find out more about him, and there falls for the man's widow.

6.9

Year:

2005

Fallen

Jason Shepherd awakens in hospital in an amnesiac state. Discovering that he is a police detective he tries to solve the mystery of how he came to lose his memory and uncovers some shocking truths.

6.0

Year:

2004

The Girl in the Picture

Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As a very presentable Glaswegian photographer, Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She, however, seems a lot less keen to try again.

4.7

Year:

1986