Simmons is one of tierce kids; he has the sister world health organization is his twin. Simmons earned the basketball scholarship at Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire, where he earned the business degree. Fallowing graduating from either college, he briefly work on the Fortune 500 company in Stamford. Unhappy by owning his job, Simmons began to survey acting & fallowing two or three bit roles, he landed the revenant role on the laundry soap opera, Another World. Simmons is better known for swimming Detective Baldwin Jones on the ABC drama, NYPD Blue.

Simmons was engaged to local news anchor/television personality Lauren Sanchez; they broke off a engagement within 2003.