Jay Simpson
ActingBorn
January 1, 1966
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
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 Bil…
Known For
Filmography
National Theatre at Home: The Story
2026
Blitz
2024
The Critic
2024
Tuesday
2024
Sherbet
2024
National Theatre Live: Othello
2023
Ferryman
2022
Bull
2021
King Gary Christmas Special
2020
Enola Holmes
2020
Sitting in Limbo
2020
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019
King Gary Pilot
2018
This Little Death
2018
Terminal
2018
Their Finest
2017
Rearview
2017
The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared
2016
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
The Guvnors
2014
Rush
2013
The Magnificent Eleven
2013
The Great Train Robbery
2012
Acts of Godfrey
2012
Wild Bill
2011
Shifter
2011
Dreams of a Life
2011
Age of Heroes
2011
The Murder at Road Hill House
2011
Hattie
2011
Round Ireland with a Fridge
2010
Shifty
2008
Mrs In-Betweeny
2008
Recovery
2007
Hush Your Mouth
2007
The Holiday
2006
Pride & Prejudice
2005
The I Inside
2004
Wall of Silence
2004
Occasional, Strong
2002
Club Le Monde
2002
Hot Money
2001
South West 9
2001
Beautiful People
1999
Erik the Viking
1989
The Firm
1989
Death of a Son
1989
The Moneymen
1988
Empire State
1987
Blueberry
Black Cab
Babies
2026
The Hack
2025
The Day of the Jackal
2024
A Spy Among Friends
2022
Pistol
2022
Sister Boniface Mysteries
2022
Stephen
2021
The Nevers
2021
Small Axe
2020
Des
2020
Chernobyl
2019
Cradle to Grave
2015
The Game
2014
Utopia
2013
Mrs Biggs
2012
Call the Midwife
2012
Black Mirror
2011
Black Mirror
2011
Comedy Blaps
2011
Silk
2011
Ashes to Ashes
2008
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
2007
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
Not Going Out
2006
Murder in Suburbia
2004
Peep Show
2003
Foyle's War
2002
Foyle's War
2002
Bodily Harm
2002
Murphy's Law
2001
Pilgrim's Rest
1997
The Thin Blue Line
1995
A Touch of Frost
1992
Heartbeat
1992
Press Gang
1989
The Fear
1988
Screen Two
1985