Jay Simpson

Known for ActingBorn 1966-01-01 (age 60)London, England, UK

Jay Simpson is a prolific English film, television and stage actor. Most recently, he has appeared in Chernobyl and Frontier. Simpson is perhaps best known in television for portraying cockney desk sergeant Ian 'Brookie' Brooke in Foyle's War, and he has also appeared on television in Recovery with David Tennant and Sarah Parish, Hot Money, Bad Crowd, A Touch of Frost, Casualty, Primeval, The Bill, Peep Show, Rome, Ashes to Ashes, Murder in Suburbia and Soundproof. Jay also uses his charm and voice skills as he is the voice of 'The Tree of Temptation' in Big Brother. His films include Hush Your Mouth, The Holiday, Pride and Prejudice and Erik the Viking and the 1988 TV film The Firm with Gary Oldman. He also voiced a major character, Flea, in the 2008 English language DVD re-release of the cult 2006 Norwegian animated film, Free Jimmy, alongside Woody Harrelson and with dialogue written by Simon Pegg. The character of Flea was something of comedy relief in the film, with a character partly inspired by Sean Ryder. In 2008 he appeared alongside Ross Boatman and Roger Lloyd-Pack in Patrick Marber's play Dealer's Choice for a run on the West End. In 2011 he appeared as George Redman in the television film The Suspicions of Mr Whicher for ITV. In 2011, he appeared in "The National Anthem", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror On 13 April 2012, he appeared as Stretch in the sitcom Not Going Out and appeared in the ITV series Mrs Biggs as one of the great train robbers, Bruce Reynolds.Read more

Movies & web series

The Moneymen

Chernobyl

The Day of the Jackal

Black Mirror

Wall of Silence

The Nevers

Mrs Biggs

Pride & Prejudice

Peep Show

Utopia

Rush

Cradle to Grave

Foyle's War

Pistol

Ashes to Ashes

National Theatre Live: Othello

Murder in Suburbia

Murphy's Law

Call the Midwife

Silk

Not Going Out

The Game

Enola Holmes

A Touch of Frost

Des

Press Gang

Hot Money

The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Holiday

The Thin Blue Line

Heartbeat

Mrs In-Betweeny

Dramarama

Sitting in Limbo

Small Axe

Occasional, Strong

Tuesday

Stephen

Screen Two

Pilgrim's Rest

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Wild Bill

The Hack

The Great Train Robbery

Brexit: The Uncivil War

A Spy Among Friends

Their Finest

Bull