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