Simone Missick

Biography

Simone Missick is an American TV & movie actress. She made her debut through a minor role of Jamie in the movie "The Epicureans", Her major breakthrough came through Marvel series Luke Cage & The Defenders where she played the role of Misty Knight.

Childhood- Family

Simone Cook was born on January 19, 1982 in Detroit, Michigan to Cassie Cook (?) and Dwayne (?) Cook [2] [3]

She is the youngest of three children of her parents. She has an older brother named Sam Cook and an older sister named Maisha Cook. Her father is a teacher & mother a health inspector turned social worker.

[Simone Missick with her mother]

[Simone Missick with her father]

[Simone Missick with her older siblings]

Education

• Renaissance High School: She studied at Renaissance High School is a public, magnet high school in the city of Detroit, Michigan and graduated from the school in 1999
• British American Drama Academy: She attended the classes at BADA, located in London, England. Veterans of the British film industry like Ben Kingsley, Alan Rickman, and Jane Lapotaire were her teachers.
• Harvard University: She graduated with an English major and theatre non-major from Howard University in 2003.

Marriage

Dorian Missick

Simone married Hollywood actor Dorian Missick (of Two Weeks Notice(2002), Lucky Number Slevin(2006), Deliver Us from Evil(2014), Annie(2014) fame) on 12th February 2012.

[Simone Missick with husband Dorian Missick]

Dorian has appeared along her in the second season of Luke Cage, where he played Cockroach Hamilton

Career

She initially started performing at a Detroit theatre, later moved to Los Angeles to seek a career in movies.

Simone made her debut in Brandon Broussard's comedy drama The Epicureans. 

She played Jamie in this coming of age comedy that deals with the sex lives of young men, the conversations around their love lives, how relationships shape the lvies.

The Road to Sundance(2008)

In the 2008 comedy drama The Road to Sundance, directed by Susan diRende and Michelle Clay, Simone played Reese Knight.

Reese Knight is a writer who has written a great movie and insists that she direct it. No one in Hollywood agrees to that, a  fading child actor Brandon (Robert Petrarca) wants to make a big mark and get back the lost fame.The two learn a lot about themselves on their journey of this movie.

In the short drama Brotherlee written and directed by Pierce Minor, she played Tamar.

In the Comedy drama 'K-Town', written and directed by Steve Royall, she appeared as a newly single lady in this comedy.

In the 2011 TV Movie 'A Taste of Romance', she played Elise.

Look Again(2011)

In this short drama directed by Wanjiru M. Njendu, she played the main role of Anna, a friend of Fiona who reveals the hidden things to hospitalized Fiona, about what led to her hospitalization.

In the comedy series 'Bucket and Skinner's Epic Adventures', she appeared as a reporter in the episode Epic Babysitters (S1E10)

She got married in 2012 and officially changed her official name and the screen name to Simone Missick from Simone Cook.

In the 2012 short comedy written, directed and starring Thomas Fraser, Simone played the other leading role.

Douglass U(2013)

Douglass U is a comedy riot, it revolves around Aaron Johnson, a business major freshly in college struggling to handle the pressures of college life. Simone plays Tasha, one of the leading characters.

In the crime drama series Ray Donovan, with Liev Schreiber playing the lead role, she played Porsch;a in the episode Yo Soy Captain (S2E1)

In the comedy series 'Everything I Did Wrong in My 20s', she played Melanie in the episode 'The Baby Moment' (S1E6)

In the short comedy drama BlackCard(2015), she appeared as Lona.

In the series Scandal, she appeared as a uniformed Cop in the episode Heavy is the Head (S5E1)

In the horror mystery Wayward Pines, she played CJ's wife in two episodes- "Time Will Tell" and "Bed Time Story" (S2E7, S2E10)

The Big Chop(2016)

In the 2016 short comedy 'The Big Chop', she played the leading role of Kris. The story is about a 10 year old girl's journey of self love and acceptance. 

In the series American Koko, she played Grace in 4 episodes of the second season (S2E1, S2E2, S2E4, S2E6)

The Defenders

In the action series The Defenders, she appeared in 5 episodes the TV mini series as Misty Night. Though her role is not central to the story, the character went on to become a great one in later series such as LukeCage, Iron Fist

Luke Cage & The Defenders

After a series of minor & supporting roles, Simone landed in the female lead role in the Marvel series Luke Cage & The Defenders. 

She plays Misty Knight, a former police officer turned super hero. She has the super power of 'Misty Vision', which helps her deduce what happened at the crime scene. She played Misty in 26 episodes, and in 6 episdoes of Iron Fist.

She was shot in the face while shooting without a double for a scene in Luke Cage (she admits she got dozens of roses next day), she had also busted fellow actor's lips while throwing handcuffs at him (apparently she has done that couple of times)

In the CBS All Access psychological series "Tell Me a Story" she played Marianna Reynolds in 2 episodes of the first season.

 A Cold Hard Truth(2016)

The Cold hard truth is a drama about a young woman who comits suicide, and her cousin seeing things unravel around it, the shaming, lies, secrets, the emotional turmoil...

She played Zora in an episdoe of Relics and Rarities in 2019

All Rise

In the CBS legal drama All Rise, Simone played the lead role of Lola Carmichael, an idealistic judge of the Los Angeles County Superior court. She is married to an FBI agent- Robin Taylor, they have a baby in second season.

She has appeared in all the episodes of the series.

In the cyberpunk series 'Altered Carbon' based on the novel of Richard K Morgan, Simone played Trepp, a bounty hunter in the second season. She appeared in a total of 8 episodes of second season.

Filmography

Movies

Series

Theatre

Interesting  Facts & Trivia

[Simone Missick in a hot avatar]

Simone grew up learning arts, she was taught in Music (violin and singing) & sports.

Music

• She took theatre as a part of her course in her graduation. She graduated with a minor in theatre Arts & major in English.
• She was a concert mistress (female leader of the first violins) in the symphony Orchestra. 
• When in High school she was part of Blue Lake International Orchestra.

Sports

• Simone was captain of the basketball team in the senior year of her High School. She also played Tennis, Softball at school.
• Her crew once wanted her to take basketball lessons for a scene in the TV series, but she was already a pro, she surprised everyone with her skills that she had learnt in High School as the team captain.

• Simone has acted, written and produced numerous short movies.
• Simon has written as well as produced many one act plays. She has plans to produce online content.
• Simone dreamed of marrying musician Prince till she was of age 11, she loved him that much.
• She likes pets, she has a pet dog named Charlie, at one point she had pet kittens named Danger & Suge.
• Photographic memory: According to the producer of Luke Cage- Cheo Hodari Coker, she has a photographic memory, she can
• She personally makes cards for her family  & friends.
• She was a guest on the show AMC’s Geeking Out, she talked about her experience on the sets of Luke Cage.
• She is a fan of the show Game of Thrones.
• She had severe cold during the auditions of Luke Cage and wasn't hopeful of getting the role. She still managed to land the role.
• Her routine training includes: Cardio, using weights, Thai Boxing, kettlebell exercises
• She often visits Manny's cafe, a cafe in Brooklyn, her neighborhood.

Awards

Quotes

• I can make you laugh, make you cry, and still throw a punch like the best of them.
• For so long I was a struggling artist. I felt like I had my faith, family and health together, but not my career
• If you don’t enjoy the journey, you’re not going to be happy once you get there.
• About her pets "Caring for another animal prepares you for parenthood."
• I’ve been on Twitter and I am amazed, Twitter can be brutal and brutally honest about actors and artists
• Never, never, never give up, Go about the business of doing whatever it is you want to pursue.
• [simone on her mother] I would not be the woman I am today without my mom. She is my ultimate teacher, the person I strive to be like. My favorite drinking partner, the gasoline to my fire [2]

Sources

1. Simone Missick on wikipedia
2. Simone on her mother Cassie Cook
3. Simone wishing her father a happy father's day
4. Simone wishing her brother on his birthday
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