Acting

Simon Cook

Born

1952-06-01 (74)

Place of birth

Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

9 titles

Simon Timothy Cook MBE (born 21 June 1952) is a British television actor, best known for his role as Andrew Warrington in the Five soap opera Family Affairs between 2000 and 2001. He attended Norwich School before studying English at the University of Sussex. He spent six years in business management before taking an acting course at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.[2] Cook has had roles in EastEnders, Doctors, Casualty, and Cal. He has also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Waking the Dead poster
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A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

Waking the Dead

2001

Broadchurch poster
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The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

Broadchurch

2013

The Chief poster
7.0

The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia.

The Chief

1990

Mistresses poster
5.7

Follows the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of marital and extramarital relationships.

Mistresses

2008

Three Girls poster
7.3

The story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale, for which nine men were convicted and sentenced. The drama explores how these girls were groomed, how they were ignored by the authorities directly responsible for protecting them, and how they eventually made themselves heard.

Three Girls

2017

Injustice poster
7.1

William Travers, an accomplished criminal lawyer living happily with his wife in rural Suffolk, is recovering from a traumatic series of events that have shaken his faith in the legal system when he is drawn into a case involving an old friend.

Injustice

2011

Devices and Desires poster
6.6

Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard, ostensibly on leave to mourn the death of a close friend and settle her estate at a coastal cottage, soon finds himself entangled in a murder investigation when a serial killer dubbed the 'Norfolk Whistler' strikes near a local nuclear power station.

Devices and Desires

1991

Watt on Earth poster
7.0

Watt on Earth is a children's television programme that ran for two 12-episode series, shown as part of Children's BBC. Watt is an alien prince who comes to Earth to escape his evil uncle, who wants to kill him. He befriends a boy named Sean, who helps him hide from the assassin sent by his uncle.

Watt on Earth

1991