- He is of no relation to Paul Verhoeven.
- Son of Michael Verhoeven and Senta Berger.
- Brother of Luca Verhoeven.
- After playing in many films directed by her husband, in 2016 Senta Berger also starred in her son Simon Verhoeven's award-winning hit film Welcome to Germany (2016).
- Simon Verhoeven comes from a long line of film and theater directors, writers and actors.
- Simon Verhoeven's mother is the renowned screen and TV actor Senta Berger, who in her 70-year-spanning career played in international films alongside Kirk Douglas, Max von Sydow, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Alain Delon, Marcello Mastroianni, Omar Sharif, Jeanne Moreau, Richard Harris, Albert Finney, John Wayne, James Caan, Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner, while working with directors such as Sam Peckinpah, Terence Young, Dino Risi, Wim Wenders and many others - before she returned to Germany for an ongoing successful acting career.
- Simon's father Michael Verhoeven has been writing and directing films since 1967 and is internationally best known for his anti-war drama O.K. (1970) (which caused a major scandal at the 1970 Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale), resulting in the competition being canceled that year), and his Oscar-nominated drama The Nasty Girl (1990), which won a BAFTA and the Berlinale's Silver Bear, among many other awards.
- In his New York years Simon Verhoeven also studied jazz piano under Don Friedman, and later took classes in film music scoring at the Berklee College of Music. While still studying at NYU, he composed big parts of the musical score of his father's movie My Mother's Courage (1995). Since then, he has contributed compositions and songs to the soundtrack of all of his own films.
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