Derek Jacobi
ActingBorn
October 22, 1938
Place of Birth
Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Biography
Sir Derek George Jacobi CBE (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor. Jacobi is known for his work at the Royal National Theatre and for his film and television roles. He has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, two Olivier Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award. He was given a knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth …
Known For
Filmography
Heartstopper Forever
2026
Moss & Freud
2026
Broken English
2026
Tinsel Town
2025
Juliet & Romeo
2025
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024
Gladiator II
2024
The Martini Shot
2023
Allelujah
2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
A Bird Flew In
2022
Pearl Islands
2022
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021
Say Your Prayers
2021
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
2020
Come Away
2020
Breaking The Codes
2020
The Host
2020
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019
Muse
2019
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019
Tolkien
2019
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
Tomb Raider
2018
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017
Stratton
2017
The Devil of Christmas
2016
The History of Love
2016
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
Venom
2015
Cinderella
2015
The Gospel of Luke
2015
Grace of Monaco
2014
Effie Gray
2014
You
2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
Muse of Fire
2013
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013
Last Will. & Testament
2012
The Halloween Kid
2012
Jail Caesar
2012
My Week with Marilyn
2011
Anonymous
2011
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011
There Be Dragons
2011
Ironclad
2011
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2011
The King's Speech
2010
Hereafter
2010
Joe Maddison's War
2010
Margot
2009
Charles Dickens's England
2009
Diamonds
2009
Endgame
2009
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008
Sidney Turtlebaum
2008
Pompeii and the Roman Villa
2008
Adam Resurrected
2008
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
One of Those Days
2008
The Old Curiosity Shop
2007
The Golden Compass
2007
Guantanamero
2007
The Riddle
2007
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
2007
Anastezsi
2007
The Art of Francis Bacon
2007
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2006
Pinochet in Suburbia
2006
Underworld: Evolution
2006
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2005
Nanny McPhee
2005
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004
Strings
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Cloud Cuckoo Land
2004
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002
Inquisition
2002
Two Men Went To War
2002
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
Revengers Tragedy
2002
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002
The Gathering Storm
2002
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002
Gosford Park
2001
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
2001
David Macaulay: Mill Times
2001
The Body
2001
Revelation
2001
Great Escape: The Untold Story
2001
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
The Wyvern Mystery
2000
Wilfred
2000
Gladiator
2000
Up at the Villa
2000
The Chimes
1999
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998
Basil
1998
Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998
Hamlet
1996
Looking for Richard
1996
Breaking the Code
1996
Witness Against Hitler
1996
The Virgin in the Ice
1995
Achilles
1995
The Secret Garden
1994
Monk's Hood
1994
The Leper of St. Giles
1994
The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994
One Corpse Too Many
1994
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994
David Macaulay: Roman City
1994
Circles of Deceit
1993
The Vision Thing
1993
Aladdin
1992
Dead Again
1991
The Fool
1990
Discovering Hamlet
1990
Henry V
1989
The Congress
1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
The Tenth Man
1988
Little Dorrit
1987
The Secret Garden
1987
On Wings of Fire
1986
David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986
Mr. Pye
1986
The Statue of Liberty
1985
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
Enigma
1982
The Secret of NIMH
1982
Stranger in Town
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
Charlotte
1981
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
1980
Hamlet
1980
The Human Factor
1979
Richard II
1978
The Medusa Touch
1978
Mysterious Castles of Clay
1978
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
1977
Blue Blood
1974
The Odessa File
1974
The Day of the Jackal
1973
Three Sisters
1970
Much Ado About Nothing
1967
Othello
1965
Olivier Talks About Othello
1965
The Fishing Match
1962
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
Lead Heads
Frank and Percy
Good Omens: The Final
Ludwig
2024
The American Buffalo
2023
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023
U-Boat Wargamers
2023
The Sandman
2022
Remembers…
2022
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
2021
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
2019
Good Omens
2019
Good Omens
2019
Les Misérables
2018
The Crown
2016
Inside No. 9
2014
Vicious
2013
Last Tango in Halifax
2012
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012
The Amazing World of Gumball
2011
The Borgias
2011
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009
Diamonds
2009
In the Night Garden
2007
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Doctor Who
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
The Long Firm
2004
London
2004
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
2003
Henry VIII
2003
The Jury
2002
Jason and the Argonauts
2000
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
The West
1996
Baseball
1994
Baseball
1994
Cadfael
1994
Frasier
1993
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992
The Velvet Claw
1992
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
The Civil War
1990
ScreenPlay
1986
Mr Pye
1986
Wedden, dat..?
1986
Inside the Third Reich
1982
Minder
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
I, Claudius
1976
NOVA
1974
The Pallisers
1974
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
Budgie
1971
ITV Playhouse
1967
Horizon
1964
Armchair Theatre
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951