Mika Simmons is an award winning British Filmmaker, Actress, and Host of The Happy Vagina.
As an actress and filmmaker, Mika has worked on a diverse range of creative projects including the BAFTA-winning ’Falling Apart’, Film London’s ’Balcony’ which won the Crystal Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival and BFI nominated Dictynna Hood’s ‘Us Among the Stones’. Mika’s directorial debut, ‘Rain Stops Play’, won the Silver Remi for best comedy at Houston World Film Festival and has been nominated at Underwire Festival and BAFTA qualifying Portobello Film Festival and CBFF.
When not working as an actress or making films, Mika hosts The Happy Vagina platform which empowers women through inspirational content that both educates and entertains. On the podcast, Mika interviews pioneering guests as they explore an experience that completely changed their outlook in Women’s health, equality and relationships. The Happy Vagina podcast, as seen on Fabulous Magazines ‘graph of greatness’ was Marie Claire’s 2020 ‘next must listen’.
As a host and panellist Mika has worked for, amongst others, BBC Radio 5 live with Laura Whitmore, Soho House, FaceBook, Acast, Power of Women TV and AllBright and partnered with brands including Stripe & Stare, EBloggers, LeSalon, Kindred, DAME, Lelo, and DeoDoc.
In January Mika was chosen by Harpers Bazaar’s as one fo their female Visionaries for 2021. She was also featured as one of L’Oréal Lancôme’s powerful women campaign in 2017.
As a Women’s health activist, Mika is also the founder of the ‘Lady Garden Foundation,’ one of the world’s leading Gynaecological charities, and co-chair, with Nimco Ali OBE, of the ‘Ginsburg Women’s Health Board’, an independent advisory board supporting better diagnosis in Women’s health. In 2017 Mika was chosen as one of 40 inspirational British women to front L’Oréal Lancôme’s powerful women campaign.
@MissMikaSimmons | @TheHappyVagina
Title | Role | Director | Producer |
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Birthday Boy | Kris | James Bell | Leo Le Beau Ltd |
All My Love (Short) | Joanna | Alexander Harrison | London Film Company |
Us Among The Stones | Rose | D. R. Hood | Likely Story |
Balcony (Short) | Kate | Toby Fell-Holden | Film London |
Westminster Girls (Short) | Jess | Paul Wyett | Pimlico Films |
Zone Ten | Julie | Joshua Bregman | MET Films |
Through The Hawthorne (Short Animation) | Lydia | Dictynna Hood | A Likely Story |
Magpie (Short) | Olivia Ball | Michael Buckman | Nyasha Hatendi |
Polarity (Short) | Michelle Harris | Pavol Kajan | NFTS |
Ketchup | Therapist | Daniel Barlev | LFA |
Ripley Under Ground | Sandy | Roger Spottiswoode | Graveside Ltd |
Casting About | Mika | Barry J Hershey | Moving Still Productions |
Tea Time | Jennifer | Ilakia Delia | MET Films |
Title | Role | Director | Producer |
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Showtrial | Amanda Wilkinson | Zara Hayes | World Productions / BBC |
Unforgotten | Chambers | Andy Wilson | ITV |
Dragon Age Inquisition (Animation) | Queen Anora | Caroline Livingstone | Bioware |
Hitting The Wall (Pilot) | Trine Campbell | Joshua Bregman | A Good Film Company |
Dragon Age: Awakenings (Animation) | Queen Anora | Caroline Livingston | Bioware |
Dragon Age: Origins (Animation) | Queen Anora | Caroline Livingstone | Bioware |
Casualty | Gemma Lynch | Dominic Santana | BBC Television |
Bad Girls | DI Kitson | Julian Holmes | Shed Productions |
Falling Apart | Sally | Brian Hill | Channel 4 |
Without Motive | Rosie | James Hawes | ITV |
Happy Birthday Shakespeare | Sally | Nick Hurran | BBC Television |
Ghost From A Perfect Place | Miss Sulpher | Michael Kingsbury | White Bear |
Frenchman's Creek | Prudence | Ferdinand Fairfax | ITV |
Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | David Jiang | International Shakespeare Festival |
Man Of Mode | Belinda | Paul Warick | New Town, Edinburgh |
Title | Role | Director | Producer |
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The Central Line Cometh (Rehearsed Reading) | Gertrude | Su Gilroy | Equity |
Genesis inc. (Rehearsed Reading) | Kiki | Jemma Kennedy | Bush Theatre |
The Bank Of Britain (Rehearsed Reading) | Narrator | Amy Hodge | Unicorn Theatre |
Measure For Measure (Workshop) | Various Roles | Simon Godwin | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Workshop) | Various Roles | Joe Hill Gibbons | |
Macbeth (Workshop) | Various Roles | Simon Godwin | |
Hedda Gabler (Workshop) | Various Roles | Joe Hill Gibbons | |
This Family (Rehearsed Reading) | Anna | Dictynna Hood | Likely Story |
Ferris Bueller | Grace | Mimi Poskitt | Young Vic/Look Left Look Right |
You Once Said Yes | Emily | Mimi Poskitt | Look Left Look Right |
Over And Under (Rehearsed Reading) | Lydia | Dictynna Hood | A Likely Story |
Heated Curlers (Rehearsed Reading) | Kay Bragger | Susan Jacobson | BAFTA |
Is This Free (Rehearsed Reading) | Lady | Lauris Beinerts | CoLab |
On The Piste | Melissa Grey | Hannah Chissick | Derby Playhouse |
Romeo And Juliet / Moments | Juliet | Jane Clarke | Young Vic Studio |
The Queen Of Spades | Caterina Gonchorova | David Edwards | New End Theatre |
Octopus Pie | Tara | Robert Wolstenholme | Landor Theatre |
In That Summer Of Sweet Sixteen | Jessica Townsend | Jane Clarke | Red Lion |