Simon Eckert was born in Berlin in 1981. After he was able to gain his first stage experience as a singer & rapper in a crossover rock band from 1999 to 2003, he completed an acting degree from 2003 to 2007 at the HfS "Ernst Busch" Berlin. From 2007 he played at the "Deutsches Theater" in Berlin, at the "Burgtheater" in Vienna and at "Schauspiel Köln", before focusing more on acting in film and television from 2012 onwards.