Early Life Born in Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire, Farnaby trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, National Youth Theatre, and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a rival for the Carlton Hobbes Radio Award and co-devised The Blue Diamond of Azcabar for The Changeling Theatre Company. Simon has played galore roles like various characters in atrocious Histories and 'James Blond' in M.I. High. He is besides best-known as 'Farno'.