Simon Pearce

Simon Pearce (born 31. Mai 1981 in München) is a German actor, voice actor and comedian. He comes from a family of artists; he is the son of the Nigerian Gastronom Charles Bioudun Pearce (died 2004) and the actress Christiane Pearce-Blumhoff (died 2023), and grandson of the actor and marionette player Franz Leonhard Schadt. Pearce already played as a youth in 1995 at the Theater links der Isar in München in Rolf Hochhuth's play Wessis in Weimar. After his Abitur he did his Zivildienst and then took up a teaching degree in the subjects Englisch, Sport and Geschichte. After the death of his father, Simon Pearce completed an acting training at the Schauspielschule Zerboni from 2005, which he concluded in 2008 with the Schauspieldiplom.

In 1997 Pearce played in several episodes of the series Solo für Sudmann, and in 1999 a role in the television film Ich liebe meine Familie, ehrlich followed. He also plays in numerous pieces of the Chiemgauer Volkstheater. From episode 335 he belonged to the permanent cast in the sketch show Kanal fatal. Since 2012 Simon Pearce increasingly appears as a comedian; he had his first appearance in the programme StandUpMigranten, after which several appearances followed, among others at NightWash and the Quatsch Comedy Club. Since 2018 he plays in the impro-comedy show Hotel Verschmitzt (now Halbpension mit Schmitz) by Ralf Schmitz.

As a voice actor he has dubbed roles such as Blaise Zabini for Louis Cordice in the Harry Potter films and various series roles. His solo programmes include Allein unter Schwarzen (2014), Pearce on Earth! (2017) and Hybrid (2022). Since 4. Februar 2021 he moderates, together with the radio presenter Sebastian Winkler, the weekly Bayern 3 Podcast Das Paket. In 2014 he received the Jurypreis of the ARD Toleranz Slams, and in 2018 won the Lüdenscheider Lüsterklemme.