Jay Simpson
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.
87 acting credits
Acting · 87
Black Mirror
2011
The Day of the Jackal
2024
Call the Midwife
2012
Heartbeat
1992
Chernobyl
2019
A Touch of Frost
1992
Foyle's War
2002
Screen Two
1985
Pride & Prejudice
2005
Peep Show
2003
Not Going Out
2006
Silk
2011
The Nevers
2021
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
2007
Sister Boniface Mysteries
2022
Utopia
2013
The Holiday
2006
Enola Holmes
2020
Murphy's Law
2001
Press Gang
1989
Ashes to Ashes
2008
Rush
2013
The Thin Blue Line
1995
Dramarama
1983
Small Axe
2020
The Hack
2025
Pistol
2022
Comedy Blaps
2011
The Game
2014
A Spy Among Friends
2022
Des
2020
Murder in Suburbia
2004
Blitz
2024
Terminal
2018
Cradle to Grave
2015
Stephen
2021
Mrs Biggs
2012
Their Finest
2017
Babies
2026
Bull
2021
Tuesday
2024
The Fear
1988
Bodily Harm
2002
The I Inside
2004
Erik the Viking
1989
The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared
2016
The Critic
2024
Age of Heroes
2011
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019
Wild Bill
2011
Empire State
1987
The Firm
1989
The Murder at Road Hill House
2011
Sitting in Limbo
2020
Pilgrim's Rest
1997
Shifty
2008
The Guvnors
2014
Beautiful People
1999
National Theatre Live: Othello
2023
Recovery
2007
South West 9
2001
Hattie
2011
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
Occasional, Strong
2002
Ferryman
2022
The Magnificent Eleven
2013
Dreams of a Life
2011
Rearview
2017
Acts of Godfrey
2012
Death of a Son
1989
Mrs In-Betweeny
2008
Hot Money
2001
Round Ireland with a Fridge
2010
Wall of Silence
2004
Club Le Monde
2002
Sherbet
2024
King Gary Pilot
2018
Hush Your Mouth
2007
Shifter
2011
The Moneymen
1988
King Gary Christmas Special
2020
This Little Death
2018
The Great Train Robbery
2012
Blueberry
—
Black Cab
—
National Theatre at Home: The Story
2026