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 Foyles 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 rerelease 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 LloydPack in Patrick Marbers play Dealers 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