Jay Simpson

Jay Simpson

Birthday: 1966-01-01

Place of birth: London, England, UK

Also known as: Джей Симпсон

imdb_id: nm0801043

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.

Played in movies:

Pride & Prejudice

Score: 8.1

National Theatre Live: Othello

Score: 8.0

Wall of Silence

Score: 8.0

Rush

Score: 7.7

Sitting in Limbo

Score: 7.4

Enola Holmes

Score: 7.3

The Holiday

Score: 7.1

Mrs In-Betweeny

Score: 7.0

Tuesday

Score: 6.9

Wild Bill

Score: 6.8

Hot Money

Score: 6.8

Recovery

Score: 6.7

Their Finest

Score: 6.6

Brexit: The Uncivil War

Score: 6.6

The Firm

Score: 6.6

Dreams of a Life

Score: 6.5

The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared

Score: 6.4

Bull

Score: 6.4

The Murder at Road Hill House

Score: 6.1

Hattie

Score: 6.1

Blitz

Score: 6.0

Beautiful People

Score: 6.0

The Great Train Robbery

Score: 6.0

Ferryman

Score: 6.0

The I Inside

Score: 5.9

Erik the Viking

Score: 5.9

The Critic

Score: 5.9

Shifty

Score: 5.7

Terminal

Score: 5.5

Age of Heroes

Score: 5.5

The Guvnors

Score: 5.2

Round Ireland with a Fridge

Score: 5.0

Empire State

Score: 5.0

South West 9

Score: 4.2

Rearview

Score: 4.0

Club Le Monde

Score: 4.0

Hush Your Mouth

Score: 3.5

Death of a Son

Score: 3.5

King Gary Christmas Special

Score: 0.0

King Gary Pilot

Score: 0.0

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

Score: 0.0

Acts of Godfrey

Score: 0.0

Blueberry

Score: 0.0

Shifter

Score: 0.0

Occasional, Strong

Score: 0.0

Sherbet

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Chernobyl

Score: 8.7

Black Mirror

Score: 8.3

Black Mirror

Score: 8.3

The Day of the Jackal

Score: 8.2

Peep Show

Score: 8.0

Utopia

Score: 8.0

The Nevers

Score: 7.9

Foyle's War

Score: 7.9

Foyle's War

Score: 7.9

Ashes to Ashes

Score: 7.7

Pistol

Score: 7.6

Call the Midwife

Score: 7.5

Press Gang

Score: 7.5

Not Going Out

Score: 7.4

The Game

Score: 7.3

Des

Score: 7.2

The Thin Blue Line

Score: 7.2

Heartbeat

Score: 7.1

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Score: 7.1

Small Axe

Score: 7.0

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Score: 6.9

Stephen

Score: 6.8

A Spy Among Friends

Score: 6.6

Sister Boniface Mysteries

Score: 6.5

Pilgrim's Rest

Score: 6.0

Comedy Blaps

Score: 0.0