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As of 2017, he was starring on the West End in The Philanthropist, alongside Charlotte Ritchie.

In 2017, it was reported that Bird would direct his first feature film, Days of Bagnold Summer, which has been backed by Creative England and the British Film Institute

Bird has co-created, co-written, and co-starred in a pilot, "Chickens", for Channel 4, about three men who remain in England during World War I. It was broadcast as part of Channel 4's Comedy Showcase season. In 2012, Sky One picked up a six episode season; filming began in late 2012 and the series premiered in summer 2013.

In 2012, Bird married Lisa Owens; they met at Cambridge University when they took part in a sketch about a couple rowing. Bird proposed to Owens in Paris and they married a year later. Their first child, a son, was born in 2016.

Bird returned to the character of Will McKenzie in The Inbetweeners Movie which was released on 17 August 2011. In 2014 he portrayed Will McKenzie in the second movie about the Inbetweeners, The Inbetweeners 2.

In 2010, Bird created a BBC Three comedy panel show The King Is Dead, in which a well-known person is hypothetically killed off and a panel of three personalities go head-to-head in a series of satirical quiz rounds and challenges in their bid to replace them. He hosted alongside Nick Mohammed and Katy Wix.

In 2008, Bird was cast in E4's teen comedy The Inbetweeners as Will McKenzie, along with Joe Thomas. He won the 2008 British Comedy Award for Best Male Newcomer and the 2009 British Comedy Award for Best Actor. He was also nominated for Best Comedy Performance at the 2008 Royal Television Society Awards, and Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme at the 2009 BAFTA Awards.

While completing a Master of Arts degree in cultural and critical studies at Birkbeck College, Bird set up the sketch comedy group "The House of Windsor" with former Footlights contemporaries Joe Thomas (who plays Simon Cooper in The Inbetweeners) and Jonny Sweet. They performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 and in 2008 with a show called The Meeting, described as a site-specific comedy installation set in an actual boardroom. Bird and Thomas were also regulars on series 1 and 2 of The Weekly Show, a podcast for Channel 4 Radio (2006–07).

Bird also performs stand-up comedy and took part in Chortle's national student comedy awards in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, coming second in his final attempt. (He was a finalist in 2006, and was disqualified for deliberately breaking the rules in 2007.)

Simon Antony Bird (born 19 August 1984) is an English actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Will McKenzie in the E4 comedy series The Inbetweeners (2008–2010), and its two films (2011 and 2014), and Adam Goodman in the Channel 4 comedy series Friday Night Dinner (2011–present).