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.
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Filmography
all 207
Movies 151
TV Shows 56
self 28
Narrator 20
Voice 8
The Friar

Verona's Romeo & Juliet (2025)
Movie
Gracchus

Gladiator II (2024)
Movie
5.71
Mr. Todd

Ludwig (2024)
TV
Sir Ralph Unwin

The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies (2023)
TV
Ambrose

Allelujah (2023)
Movie
Self - Narrator

U-Boat Wargamers (2023)
TV
Erasmus Fry

The Sandman (2022)
TV
4.33
Himself (archive footage)

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood (2021)
Movie
Father Enoch

Say Your Prayers (2021)
Movie
3
Narrator

The Lost Pirate Kingdom (2021)
TV
Mr. Brown

Come Away (2020)
Movie
6.33
Dr. Hobson

The Host (2020)
Movie
Lord Palmerston

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (2019)
Movie
The Lawyer

Muse (2019)
Movie
The Metatron / Metatron

Good Omens (2019)
TV
6.3
Professor Joseph Wright

Tolkien (2019)
Movie
8.5
Bishop Myriel

Les Misérables (2018)
TV
7.17
Mr. Yaffe

Tomb Raider (2018)
Movie
6.81
Edward Masterman

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Movie
6.89
Leopold Gursky

The History of Love (2016)
Movie
Duke of Windsor

The Crown (2016)
TV
8.25
Narrator

领养 (2016)
TV
Narrator

Venom (2015)
Movie
Narrator (voice) – King James Version

The Gospel of Luke (2015)
Movie
Count Fernando D'Aillieres

Grace of Monaco (2014)
Movie
6
Travers Twiss

Effie Gray (2014)
Movie
Webster

Inside No. 9 (2014)
TV
3.5
Claudius/Spooner

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage (2013)
Movie
Stuart Bixby

Vicious (2013)
TV
5.33
Narrator

The Halloween Kid (2012)
Movie
Lord Pirrie

Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012)
TV
1
Sir Owen Morshead

My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Movie
7.13
Prologue

Anonymous (2011)
Movie
4
Narrator (voice)

The Amazing World of Gumball (2011)
TV
7
Honorio

There Be Dragons (2011)
Movie
Baron Reginald de Cornhill

Ironclad (2011)
Movie
1
Archbishop Cosmo Lang

The King's Speech (2010)
Movie
7
Derek Jacobi

Hereafter (2010)
Movie
1.5
Mr. Simpson

Joe Maddison's War (2010)
Movie
Fred Ashton

Margot (2009)
Movie
Self - Presenter

Charles Dickens's England (2009)
Movie
Piers Denmont

Diamonds (2009)
TV
Piers Denmont

Diamonds (2009)
Movie
Self - Storyteller

CBeebies Bedtime Stories (2009)
TV
Rudolph Agnew

Endgame (2009)
Movie
Quentin Neely

Morris: A Life with Bells On (2009)
Movie
Nigel Dewberry

A Bunch of Amateurs (2008)
Movie
Sidney Turtlebaum

Sidney Turtlebaum (2008)
Movie
Dr. Nathan Gross

Adam Resurrected (2008)
Movie
Grandfather

The Old Curiosity Shop (2007)
Movie
Magisterial Emissary

The Golden Compass (2007)
Movie
6.18
Mr. Operatski

Angelina Ballerina: The Silver Locket (2007)
Movie
The Tramp / Charles Dickens

The Riddle (2007)
Movie
Narrator

Mist: Sheepdog Tales (2007)
TV
Self - Narrator

In the Night Garden (2007)
TV
Balzer

Anastezsi (2007)
Movie
Derek Jacobi

The Art of Francis Bacon (2007)
Movie
Senator Pinochet

Pinochet in Suburbia (2006)
Movie
Alexander Corvinus

Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Movie
5.84
Mr. Wheen

Nanny McPhee (2005)
Movie
7.07
Lord Dempsey

Bye Bye Blackbird (2005)
Movie
Professor Yana

Doctor Who (2005)
TV
6.37
Colonel Protheroe

Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
TV
6.11
Mr. Operatski

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On (2004)
Movie
Other Voices (voice)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
Movie
Lord Edward Thursby

The Long Firm (2004)
TV
Tacitus - Historian

London (2004)
TV
Mr. Ivor Operatski

Angelina Ballerina - Lights, Camera, Action! (2003)
Movie
Narrator

The Dinosaur Hunters (2002)
Movie
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor

Inquisition (2002)
Movie
Maj. Merton

Two Men Went To War (2002)
Movie
The Duke

Revengers Tragedy (2002)
Movie
Stanley Baldwin

The Gathering Storm (2002)
Movie
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)

Ultimate Fights from the Movies (2002)
Movie
George Cording QC

The Jury (2002)
TV
Probert

Gosford Park (2001)
Movie
8
Priam Huntington

David Macaulay: Mill Times (2001)
Movie
Mr. Ivor Operatski

Angelina Ballerina (2001)
TV
Father Lavelle

The Body (2001)
Movie
Librarian

Revelation (2001)
Movie
Various Characters

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000)
Movie
Squire Fairfield

The Wyvern Mystery (2000)
Movie
Voice

Wilfred (2000)
Movie
Gracchus

Gladiator (2000)
Movie
6.43
Lucky Leadbetter

Up at the Villa (2000)
Movie
Narrator

The Chimes (1999)
Movie
Father Leonor Fousnel

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)
Movie
Father Frederick

Basil (1998)
Movie
King Claudius

Hamlet (1996)
Movie
Self - Interviewee

Looking for Richard (1996)
Movie
Alan Turing

Breaking the Code (1996)
Movie
Self (voice)

The West (1996)
TV
2
Narrator

Dinosaur Hunters (1996)
Movie
Narrator

Achilles (1995)
Movie
Archibald Craven

The Secret Garden (1994)
Movie
Various (voice)

Baseball (1994)
TV
Brother Cadfael

Cadfael (1994)
TV
6
Marcus Fabricius

David Macaulay: Roman City (1994)
Movie
The Magician

Aladdin (1994)
Movie
6
George Salisbury

The Vision Thing (1993)
Movie
Jackson Hedley

Frasier (1993)
TV
5.35
Self - Presenter

The Velvet Claw (1992)
TV
Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1992)
TV
Franklyn Madson

Dead Again (1991)
Movie
6
Mr. Frederick

The Fool (1990)
Movie
Various

The Civil War (1990)
TV
5.33
Chorus

Henry V (1989)
Movie
(voice)

The Congress (1989)
Movie
The Imposter

The Tenth Man (1988)
Movie
Arthur Clennam

Little Dorrit (1987)
Movie
Archibald Craven

The Secret Garden (1987)
Movie
4.5
Narrator

On Wings of Fire (1986)
Movie
Mr. Pye

Mr. Pye (1986)
TV
Mr. Pye

Mr. Pye (1986)
Movie
Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac (1985)
Movie
Kurt Limmer, East German

Enigma (1982)
Movie
Nicodemus (voice)

The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Movie
3.5
The Stranger

Stranger in Town (1982)
Movie
Adolf Hitler

Inside the Third Reich (1982)
Movie
Dom Claude Frollo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)
Movie
Daberlohn

Charlotte (1981)
Movie
Martin Beck

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (1980)
Movie
Hamlet

Hamlet (1980)
Movie
Arthur Davis

The Human Factor (1979)
Movie
Freddie Fenton

Minder (1979)
TV
6
The Stranger

Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
TV
Richard II

Richard II (1978)
Movie
King Richard II

BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
TV
Townley - Publisher

The Medusa Touch (1978)
Movie
Guy Burgess

Philby, Burgess and Maclean (1977)
Movie
Claudius

I, Claudius (1976)
TV
6.33
Gregory

Blue Blood (1974)
Movie
Klaus Wenzer

The Odessa File (1974)
Movie
Voice of Ernest Shackleton

NOVA (1974)
TV
4.75
Inspector Caron

The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Movie
6
William Drew

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)
TV
Cassio

Othello (1965)
Movie
(archive footage)

Olivier Talks About Othello (1965)
Movie
Self - Nominee

Tony Awards (1956)
TV
1
Dom Claude / Imposter / Archibald Craven

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
TV
8.33
Derek Jacobi

2018: A Year in the Life of a Year
Movie
Lucian Freud

Moss & Freud
Movie
Self - Narrator

Venom! Nine Ways to Die
Movie
Gallery


Information
Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1938-10-22 (86 years old)
Birth PlaceLeytonstone, United Kingdom
SpouseRichard Clifford
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known As데릭 자코비, デレク ジャコビ
AwardsCommander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, Knight Bachelor, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, Order of the Dannebrog
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