Simon Rouse

Who is Simon Rouse?

Simon Rouse is an English actor, best known for playing the role of Detective Chief Inspector/Superintendent Jack Meadows in the long-running ITV police drama The Bill.

He first appeared on The Bill as Jack Meadows in a semi-regular role with two appearances in 1990 and twice again in 1991. The character of Jack Meadows became a regular between 1992 and 2010.

Rouse was born in Heaton, Bradford, West Yorkshire. Prior to The Bill, he had a long career working mainly with the BBC, appearing twice in their Play for Tomorrow strand, a sci-fi offshoot of the Play for Today series. He also guest starred in the 1982 Doctor Who story Kinda, and played an unnamed character simply credited as "Yizzel's mate" in Carla Lane's Bread in 1986.

He later played the role of another police officer, Detective Sergeant Vernon Cooper, in Operation Julie, a three-hour dramatisation of the real-life drugs investigation. Coincidentally, Robert Gwilym also appeared as Detective Constable Dan Richard: he would return opposite Rouse for a recurring role in The Bill in 2004.

He has also guest starred on such shows as Boon, Robin of Sherwood, The Professionals, Casualty, and Minder.