Simon Anthony

Simon Anthony Abou-Fadel's French/Lebanese father, Edward, and French/Egyptian mother, Françoise, settled in North Hollywood in 1969. His father spent a career at Texaco Inc. where he also met his second wife Pamela. Simon's mother Françoise's career was spent in ticketing services with Saudi Arabia Airlines. The youngest of their four children, Simon was born in North Hollywood and remembers the orange trees, blue skies, beaches, backyard barbecues and his grandmother Germaine who immigrated to California from Lyon, France to support the family. Perhaps most poignantly he remembers the nights he and his older brother would wait up to watch the family's garage door for the first flickering reflections from the screen of the nearby drive-in movie. From those nights, he marks his fascination with movie screens, with the actors who inhabit them, and with the industry that was then only a few streets away. Simon's parents eventually moved the family to Spring, Texas where he graduated fro