Simone Ashley

Birth Name: Simone Ashwini Pillai

Place of Birth: Surrey North Western, Surrey, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 30 March, 1995

Ethnicity: Malayali Tamil Indian

Simone Ashley is a British actress. Her roles include the shows Wolfblood, Broadchurch, Sex Education, The Sister, and Bridgerton, and the films Boogie Man (2018), Kill Ben Lyk, The Little Mermaid (2023), 10 Lives, in voice performance; Picture This, and F1 (2025).

She is the daughter of Latha and Gunasekharan Pillai, who are academics. She was raised in Camberley, Surrey, as well as in Beaconsfield, and also spent some teenage years in Ojai, California, U.S., with relatives.

Simone’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Perumal.