Joe Sims

Acting

Joe Sims

Born

1980-01-05 (46)

Place of birth

Bristol, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

Joe Sims is a British actor known primarily for his role in ITV's drama Broadchurch where he played plumber Nige Carter.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Macbeth poster
NR

Macbeth has lived through countless feuds, loyally defending King Duncan's estate against increasing attacks. When a malevolent force offers Macbeth a future as king, encouraged by Lady Macbeth, they seize their fate, with grave consequences.

Macbeth

2026

Hungry Joe poster
5.2

A single mother struggles to bond with her apathetic child; born with an insatiable and increasingly inhumane appetite.

Hungry Joe

2020

Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men poster
1.8

A woman tells her daughter about every man she’s ever been with – in the hope her daughter won’t make the same mistakes. A collection of short films, all directed by women, made to fund survivor and domestic abuse charities.

Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men

2022

The Fence poster
6.9

The story kicks off on Hartcliffe council estate in Bristol during the early 1980s. It follows Steven Knight, a working-class boy who has his motorbike stolen the day he buys it. Teaming up with his scoundrel friends he desperately tries to track it down before it's gone for good.

The Fence

2022

Blockhead poster
NR

A failing and desperate novelist finds his muse in a drunk, psychotic decorator who sends his life into chaos and murder - but, just possibly, genius.

Blockhead

2025

Blackout poster
NR

In a shoebox flat on the seventeenth floor of a tower block, Reuben prepares a birthday party for his partner Harry. However, when Reuben starts hearing violent noises from the couple living next door, his morbid curiosity takes over. Harry deeply loves his boyfriend Reuben, but after being humiliated by a failed birthday party, many drinks consumed, shows us that none of us truly knows what we are capable of. For Reuben he comes to realise that violence isn’t always on the outside, sometimes it’s with us all along.

Blackout

2025

Tell Me a Creepy Story poster
5.6

The beekeeper who accidentally kills his wife before nervously burying her body under his vegetable patch, the child born with an insatiable and increasingly inhuman appetite, the seemingly harmless couple who are serial killers, and the home-alone woman who is petrified someone is out to kill her. These terrifying tales come together in one anthology.

Tell Me a Creepy Story

2023

Series credits

Midsomer Murders poster
7.5

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Midsomer Murders

1997

Father Brown poster
7.7

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown

2013

Red Dwarf poster
8.1

The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.

Red Dwarf

1988

Broadchurch poster
7.9

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

Broadchurch

2013

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators poster
7.1

Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

2018

Agatha Raisin poster
6.2

Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in her deceptively quaint town.

Agatha Raisin

2016

Plebs poster
7.3

Sitcom about three desperate young men from the suburbs who try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - which just happens to be ancient Rome.

Plebs

2013

Stan Lee's Lucky Man poster
6.9

London cop and compulsive gambler Harry Clayton is on the verge of losing everything. On the night when his huge debts are to be called in, he meets the enigmatic Eve, who gives him a mysterious bracelet said to endow the wearer with immense luck. Harry's fortunes suddenly begin to shift, but he also soon finds himself sucked into a sinister crime wave sweeping through the city.

Stan Lee's Lucky Man

2016

Houdini & Doyle poster
6.5

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will take on cases that involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists…or are they a ruse to conceal murder?

Houdini & Doyle

2016

The Basil Brush Show poster
7.3

The Basil Brush Show was a British children's television sitcom series, starring the glove puppet fox, Basil Brush. It was produced for six series by The Foundation, airing on CBBC from 4 October 2002 to 21 December 2007. The show is a spin-off from the original 1960's/1970's BBC television series, but without any of the original cast.

The Basil Brush Show

2002

The Colour of Magic poster
6.8

As Rincewind involuntarily becomes a guide to the naive tourist Twoflower, they find themselves forced to flee the city of Ankh-Morpork to escape a terrible fire, and begin on a journey across the Disc. Unknown to them, their journey and fate is being decided by the Gods playing a board game the whole time.

The Colour of Magic

2008

Renegade Nell poster
7.3

England, 1705: Framed for murder and on the run with her sisters, Nell Jackson turns her hand to highway robbery to survive. Aided by her superpowered sidekick, a plucky little sprite called Billy Blind, Nell realizes that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason. A reason much bigger than she could have ever imagined: to defeat a magical plot against the Queen of England.

Renegade Nell

2024

The Afternoon Play poster
6.5

The Afternoon Play is a British television anthology series of standalone contemporary dramas aired during the afternoons of 2003–07 on BBC One, featuring well-known actors in one-off stories. A daytime drama strand showcasing a variety of genres, from comedy to mystery, it was part of a long tradition of afternoon plays on BBC Radio 4, which would go on to influence the television version.

The Afternoon Play

2003

Reunion poster
6.4

Recently released prisoner Daniel Brennan embodies the struggle of a man caught between two worlds, unable to fully integrate into the hearing world and shunned by his closest friends and the wider deaf community following his heinous crime. Amidst this isolation, Brennan's only meaningful relationship is with his estranged daughter Carly, who he has not had any contact with since his arrest over a decade ago.

Reunion

2025

Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands poster
5.4

Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel.

Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands

2016

The First Team poster
6.4

The misadventures of three young football players Mattie, Jack and Benji, at a fictional Premier League club with terrifying team hard-man Petey, mercurial Italian manager Cesare and eccentric chairman Mark Crane.

The First Team

2020

Ruby Speaking poster
5.1

Ruby is a popular addition to the workforce in a West Country call centre, but puts other people's problems above her own and definitely above making a sale. The series is inspired by the years creator and star Jayde Adams spent working in a call centre.

Ruby Speaking

2023

The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies poster
7.4

Christopher Jefferies's life is turned inside out when one of his tenants disappears without a trace just before Christmas.

The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies

2014

Sarah Beeny's New Life in the Country poster
8.0

Following Sarah Beeny and her family as they relocate from London to Somerset, renovating a semi-derelict former dairy farm into their dream family home.

Sarah Beeny's New Life in the Country

2020