19 Facts About Simon Rex

Simon Rex later developed a rap persona, Dirt Nasty, and had several solo albums and co-founded the hip-hop group Three Loco.

Simon Rex was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in Alameda, the son of Zoe, an environmental consultant, and Paul, a relationship coach.

Simon Rex's mother is Jewish and he has identified as Jewish.

Simon Rex was an only child who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Simon Rex's father was a breath-work coach who left the family when Simon Rex was little.

In 1993, aged 19, Simon Rex responded to an advertisement in a Los Angeles magazine and agreed to be photographed nude for photographer Brad Posey and his Club 1821 studio.

Archive footage of Simon Rex was used in the 2000 films Hot Sessions 11 and Hot Sessions 12.

One day, while Simon Rex was driving his girlfriend to a casting audition and watching her child as she prepared to audition, a casting director spotted him sitting in the waiting room and the next day he was on a flight to Milan to work as a model.

In 1994, Simon Rex went on a modeling tour for Tommy Hilfiger, before going on to appear in mainstream modeling gigs for Calvin Klein Inc, Versace, and Levi's.

Simon Rex appeared as Eli in the TV show Felicity and television guest appearances followed including Baywatch, Everwood, and Summerland.

Simon Rex entered the music industry in 2005 as a rap artist after becoming friends with and discovering Mickey Avalon.

Simon Rex both produced and was featured on the group's hit song "My Dick".

Simon Rex was an investor in the New York City nightclub The Plumm with partners Noel Ashman, Samantha Ronson, Chris Noth, and others.

In 2020, Simon Rex, stuck in a floundering music endeavor with film opportunities having dried up, received a call from director Sean Baker asking him to send in a video audition for the film Red Rocket, after which he was quickly offered the lead role.

In October 2021, as a result of the attention Red Rocket had garnered, Simon Rex signed with the management firm Range Media Partners.

Simon Rex was cast in a supporting role in The Leader, a biopic about the Heaven's Gate cult led by Marshall Applewhite.

In late 2023, Simon Rex co-founded a re-launched men's skincare brand out of Colorado known as MOX.

Simon Rex bought a house in Laurel Canyon after the success of Scary Movie 3.

Simon Rex was living in a guesthouse in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles when he was offered US$70,000 by British tabloids to falsely claim he had dated Meghan Markle, his co-star in Cuts.