Acting
May 31, 1952
Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
Simon Cook
Acting
Biography
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.
Feature Films (1)
Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting and looting almost a nightly occurrence. It is not a warm homecoming as his sick mother remains stubbornly homophobic and wants nothing to do with the now openingly gay Cal while his battered Auntie Jane, now living in a run down council house, dulls her stagnation with welfare funded booze and disturbing attempts to sexually seduce her nephew. Navigating his way across this new landscape he meets a young student who needs his help. However his act of kindness brings him into contact with a lawless drug dealing pimp and a race against time to make peace with his mother and get out of town as quickly as possible. An intense tale of a family mired in poverty, angry and lost but still searching for love, respect and acceptance.
Cal
Television & Series (8)
Follows the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of marital and extramarital relationships.
Mistresses
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Broadchurch
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
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
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.
