Jay Simpson
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: January 1, 1966
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as George Hands
as Timothy Ashdown
as Slyfield
as Spike
as Rene
as Brabantio / Gratiano
as MI6 cabbie
as Ron, Steve's Stepdad
as Alfie Lynch
as Dad
as Dave
as Peter Birdsall
as Tunnel Foreman
as John The Butcher
as Duty Officer
as Conductor (uncredited)
as DS Chris Healey
as Trevor
as Perevozchenko
as Steve
as John The Butcher
as Danny
as Alf Reynolds
as Johno
as Colin Blakefield
as Neil
as British Journalist
as Detective Richmond
as Narrator
as Phil
as Albert Calthorpe
as Rod Senseless
as Gordon
as Det. Harry 'Superspeed' Cotty
as Huxley
as Caretaker
as RMP Company Sergeant Major
as George Redman
as Bruce
as London Cabbie
as Trevor
as Kevin
as Reeks
as Punter
as Johnathan
as Limo Driver
as Stretch
as Meryton Milliner
as Morgue Orderly
as John Weighill
as Foz
as Sergeant Ian Brooke
as Sgt Brooke
as Mark
as Barry Weller
as Elf
as Bigsy
as Baz
as Steve Dempsey
as Leif the Lucky
as Dominic
as Archie
as John Williams
as Jeff