Boston police officer Dennis “D.J.” Simmonds is the Boston Marathon bombings victim Hollywood forgot.

You won’t hear his name mentioned in Mark Wahlberg’s new movie, “Patriots Day.”

Nor did you see any gushing red-carpet Periscope interviews from people telling his story during the theater of the absurd that was the movie’s Boston premiere.

His mom isn’t happy about it.

“No one reached out to us at all. No one from the production team,” Roxanne Simmonds told me yesterday. “I view that as insulting, that they wouldn’t even reach out and ask us about his story. I know there were other victims. But even if they had said he passed away a year later, or just said his name in remembrance. He did love the city and would have done anything to help it.”

Simmonds didn’t die on Patriots Day 2013, nor did he perish on that horrible April night in Watertown three years ago. But his death a year later was finally and officially linked to the head injuries he suffered when a bomb tossed by one of the Brothers Grim exploded near his head and knocked him off his feet.

His family was awarded a $150,000 line-of-duty benefit by the state in 2015.

Unlike the Boston cop played by Mark Wahlberg in Peter Berg’s film, Simmonds was not a composite character. He was very real. And here is what the filmmakers missed.

A captain of the Randolph High School basketball team, Simmonds grew up always wanting to a be a cop and always rooting for — you guessed it — the Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins.

“When the Patriots were playing on a Sunday, you would have thought he was part of the Patriots,” Roxanne Simmonds said. “And Paul Pierce. He loved Paul Pierce.”

D.J. Simmonds entered the police academy after college and surprised his parents, who now live in Florida, when he decided to join the Boston Police Department.

“He was incredible. Very ambitious. Very smart. He had a big heart and a very dry sense of humor,” Roxanne Simmonds said of her only son. “If you were his friend, you were his friend forever.”

Originally assigned to work in Brighton, Simmonds was thrilled when he was able to transfer to Mattapan and work with the department’s gang unit.

“He didn’t want to be the type of officer who just handed out tickets,” she said. “He did everything he could to get into Mattapan. He was meant to be there.”

And though she says she doesn’t plan on watching the movie, Roxanne said the inexplicable snub by the “Patriots Day” production team was painful.

She and her family, she said, are still waiting for the right way to tell their son’s story. This is a start.

“It’s very sad this time of year,” Roxanne Simmonds said. “My mother always reminds me that even though we lost him, we had him for 27 years.”

Simmonds was one of the first law enforcement officers to arrive in Watertown in the wee hours of April 19, 2013.

He died in April 2014 after he collapsed at the Boston Police Academy gym.

Former transit cop Dic Donohue, who nearly bled to death after being shot in the Watertown gun battle, was among those who attended the Boston premiere on Wednesday and asked that Simmonds be remembered after the credits rolled.

“The movie captures the essence of what happened to our city … We had the opportunity to once again show our strength, perseverance, and the meaning of ‘Boston Strong,’ ” Donohue wrote on his Facebook page. “I knew early on that there would be some embellishments and changes to the actual events and the people that were involved, and had to remind myself that real-life is impossible to duplicate.”

Reel life is no match for real life.

D.J. Simmonds, born on April 1, 1986, was 2008 graduate of Lasell College in Newton. The school has since created a scholarship in his honor for students interested in becoming law enforcement officers. According to Laselle Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations Dean J. Hickey, nearly $50,000 has been raised for the Dennis “DJ” Simmonds Memorial Scholarship Fund. Eight scholarships have been awarded and five members of “Team Simmonds” will be running in April’s Boston Marathon.

A close-knit family overcoming the tragic death of a brother, son, nephew and grandson. A fearless Boston cop who lived his life battling gang activity and who died because he answered the call fast and without fear amid a hellish chaos of bullets and bombs. A crazy Boston sports fan.

It’s the sort of story almost anyone in Hollywood would love.

(To donate to the Dennis “DJ” Simmonds Memorial Scholarship Fund or, for more information, contact the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at alumni@lasell.edu or 617-243-2139.)

Bill Speros co-hosts “The Obnoxious Boston Show” on Herald Radio with Meredith Gorman Monday from noon to 1 p.m. He tweets @RealOBF and can be reached at bsperos1@gmail.com.