Jillie Simon is a multi-award-winning SAG-AFTRA & AEA actor/producer/ writer/director/singer-songwriter. She wrote, co-directed, produced and played the lead role in her first narrative short film "Hungry", co-starring Oscar-nominee Eric Roberts, which went on to win 19 awards (including 8 that Jillie won for Best Actress/Best Performance/ Outstanding Actress) and 17 more nominations in 35 film festivals, before getting acquired by IndiePix Films. "Hungry" is now streaming on several platforms. - hungry.movie
Her new film "A Chance" is still in it's festival journey, and had just been Officially Selected to it's 18th festival (Idyllwild Festival of Cinema) and has also been honored with numerous awards, including Best LGBT Short or Feature, Outstanding Actress: Jillie Simon, Best Ensemble, Gold Award for Leading Actress in a Narrative Short, Best Drama, Best LGBT Short, etc., with more nominations to date. Prior to the narrative shorts,, she'd co-directed, co-produced and performed in two multi-award-winning music videos, "Legalize" and "So Many Ways (For Safe, Green, Sane Energy)".
As an actor, she just played Kim in the second episode of actor-writer-director Ken Forman (Wilder, Wilder, Wilder -Three by Thornton, Broadway) 's new web-series "New Moon". Other recent film-work includes a principal role in multi-award winning feature film “The Incoherents” (Amy Carlson, Annette O'Toole) by Jared Barel, which has received distribution by Gravitas Ventures, and in “Prince Harming”, a multi award-winning dramedy, by Marianne Hettinger, being distributed by Ammo Content.
Past film roles include a lead role in "You Have the Right to Remain Violent”, directed by the multi-award-winning Roberto Monticello, roles in “Confess” (Melissa Leo, Eugene Byrd) by Stefan Schaefer, the Oscar-winning "A Beautiful Mind", directed by Ron Howard and the title role in romantic comedy short "Hannah Henri" by Akiva Penaloza. Television includes "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and a recurring role on "As The World Turns”.
She also played in comedy web-series “Gail’s New Boyfriend” (New Media Comedy) and 2020 feature film "Beyond Adversity".
Off-Broadway work includes performances at the NY Public Theater ("Blues"), in "Tony & Tina’s Wedding", and playing Marilyn Monroe in "Marilyn”, with Jack Mulcahy as JFK, BritFest. Regional theater work included performing with Marlo Thomas at the Cleveland Playhouse. Jillie has also performed with other luminaries such as Marion Seldes (Players Club), Austin Pendleton (Cornelia St. Cafe), Joyce Randolph (New Dramatists) and with Tom Wopat, playing his sixth wife, in a reading of Larry Beinhart's screenplay, “Divorce”, at The Directors Company, directed by Michael Parva.
She’s performed improv shows and sketch at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, UCBeast and the NY Comedy Club and been a Guest Teaching Artist at NYU Tisch School of Arts and in John Pallotta's NY acting classes.
She also, for five years in a row, had led the Socially Relevant Film Festival's Screenplay Competition and been Director of the Screenplay Finalist Staged Reading, but then passed the torch. She's in development for her next film, and has also been cast as the lead female in Tim Young's new comedy "Hair of The Dog", which recently had a table read with director Alan Souza.