Jay Simpson
Acting
Born 1966-01-01
London, England, UK
90 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Black Mirror
Call the Midwife
Chernobyl
The Day of the Jackal
Foyle's War
Heartbeat
A Touch of Frost
Screen Two
Pride & Prejudice
Sister Boniface Mysteries
Silk
Enola Holmes
Rush
The Holiday
Peep Show
The Nevers
Not Going Out
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Comedy Blaps
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Ashes to Ashes
Utopia
A Spy Among Friends
Murphy's Law
The Hack
Pistol
The Thin Blue Line
The Game
Murder in Suburbia
Des
Dramarama
Press Gang
Small Axe
Terminal
Their Finest
Tuesday
Mrs Biggs
Blitz
The Critic
Cradle to Grave
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Run
Age of Heroes
The I Inside
Babies
The Fear
Erik the Viking
Bull
Stephen
The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared
Wild Bill
Bodily Harm
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
National Theatre at Home: The Story
The Guvnors
Sherbet
The Firm
Black Cab
The Murder at Road Hill House
South West 9
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