Acting
Derek Jacobi
Born 1938-10-22
Leytonstone, London, England, UK
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
Prominent works featuring Derek Jacobi
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Gladiator
2000
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Murder on the Orient Express
2017
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The King's Speech
2010
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Tomb Raider
2018
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Cinderella
2015
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The Golden Compass
2007
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Gladiator II
2024
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Underworld: Evolution
2006
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Doctor Who
2005
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Nanny McPhee
2005
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (231 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Frank and Percy | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2026 |
 | Heartstopper Forever | Pete | Movie | 2026 |
 | Moss & Freud | Lucian Freud | Movie | 2026 |
 | Broken English | The Narrator | Movie | 2026 |
 | Tinsel Town | Albert | Movie | 2025 |
 | Juliet & Romeo | The Friar | Movie | 2025 |
 | Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration | Self | Movie | 2024 |
 | Gladiator II | Gracchus | Movie | 2024 |
 | Ludwig | Mr. Todd | TV Series | 2024 |
 | The American Buffalo | (voice) | TV Series | 2023 |
 | The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies | Sir Ralph Unwin | TV Series | 2023 |
 | The Martini Shot | Errol | Movie | 2023 |
 | Allelujah | Ambrose | Movie | 2023 |
 | U-Boat Wargamers | Narrator (voice) | TV Series | 2023 |
 | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | Movie | 2022 |
 | A Bird Flew In | David | Movie | 2022 |
 | Pearl Islands | Self | Movie | 2022 |
 | The Sandman | Erasmus Fry | TV Series | 2022 |
 | Remembers… | Self | TV Series | 2022 |
 | Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2021 |
 | Say Your Prayers | Father Enoch | Movie | 2021 |
 | The Lost Pirate Kingdom | Narrator | TV Series | 2021 |
| Coronation Street: Queens of the Street | Himself | Movie | 2020 | |
 | Come Away | Mr. Brown | Movie | 2020 |
 | Breaking The Codes | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2020 |
 | The Host | Dr. Hobson | Movie | 2020 |
 | The Warrior Queen of Jhansi | Lord Palmerston | Movie | 2019 |
 | Muse | The Lawyer | Movie | 2019 |
 | Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans | Claudius | Movie | 2019 |
 | Greatest Events of World War II in Colour | Narrator | TV Series | 2019 |
 | Good Omens | The Metatron | TV Series | 2019 |
| Good Omens | Metatron | TV Series | 2019 |
 | Tolkien | Professor Joseph Wright | Movie | 2019 |
 | Les Misérables | Bishop Myriel | TV Series | 2018 |
| 2018: A Year in the Life of a Year | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2018 | |
 | Nothing Is Truer than Truth | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2018 |
 | Tomb Raider | Mr. Yaffe | Movie | 2018 |
 | A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Scrooge | Movie | 2017 |
 | Murder on the Orient Express | Edward Henry Masterman | Movie | 2017 |
 | Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2017 |
 | Stratton | Ross | Movie | 2017 |
 | The Devil of Christmas | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2016 |
 | The History of Love | Leopold Gursky | Movie | 2016 |
 | The Crown | Duke of Windsor | TV Series | 2016 |
 | Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio | Movie | 2016 |
 | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2015 |
 | Venom | Narrator | Movie | 2015 |
 | Cinderella | King | Movie | 2015 |
 | The Gospel of Luke | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | Movie | 2015 |
 | Grace of Monaco | Count Fernando D'Aillieres | Movie | 2014 |
 | Effie Gray | Travers Twiss | Movie | 2014 |
 | Inside No. 9 | Webster | TV Series | 2014 |
 | You | Man | Movie | 2013 |
 | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Claudius/Spooner | Movie | 2013 |
| The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island | Narrator | Movie | 2013 | |
 | Muse of Fire | Self | Movie | 2013 |
 | Vicious | Stuart Bixby | TV Series | 2013 |
 | Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2013 |
 | Last Tango in Halifax | Alan | TV Series | 2012 |
 | Last Will. & Testament | Himself | Movie | 2012 |
 | The Halloween Kid | Narrator | Movie | 2012 |
 | Jail Caesar | Sulla | Movie | 2012 |
 | Shakespeare Uncovered | Himself | TV Series | 2012 |
 | Titanic: Blood and Steel | Lord Pirrie | TV Series | 2012 |
 | My Week with Marilyn | Sir Owen Morshead | Movie | 2011 |
 | Anonymous | Prologue | Movie | 2011 |
 | Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2011 |
 | The Amazing World of Gumball | Narrator (voice) | TV Series | 2011 |
 | The Borgias | Cardinal Orsini | TV Series | 2011 |
 | There Be Dragons | Honorio | Movie | 2011 |
 | Ironclad | Cornhill | Movie | 2011 |
 | National Theatre Live: King Lear | King Lear | Movie | 2011 |
 | The King's Speech | Archbishop Cosmo Lang | Movie | 2010 |
 | Hereafter | Derek Jacobi | Movie | 2010 |
 | Joe Maddison's War | Mr. Simpson | Movie | 2010 |
 | Margot | Fred Ashton | Movie | 2009 |
 | Doctor Who Greatest Moments | Self | TV Series | 2009 |
 | Charles Dickens's England | Himself - Presenter | Movie | 2009 |
| Diamonds | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2009 | |
 | Diamonds | Piers Denmont | Movie | 2009 |
 | Endgame | Rudolph Agnew | Movie | 2009 |
 | Morris: A Life with Bells On | Quentin Neely | Movie | 2009 |
 | A Bunch of Amateurs | Nigel Dewberry | Movie | 2008 |
 | Sidney Turtlebaum | Sidney Turtlebaum | Movie | 2008 |
 | Pompeii and the Roman Villa | Narrator | Movie | 2008 |
 | Adam Resurrected | Dr. Nathan Gross | Movie | 2008 |
 | The Ties That Bind Us | The Master (archive footage) | Movie | 2008 |
 | One of Those Days | Howard Whittam | Movie | 2008 |
 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Grandfather | Movie | 2007 |
 | The Golden Compass | Magisterial Emissary | Movie | 2007 |
 | Guantanamero | Guido | Movie | 2007 |
 | The Riddle | The Tramp / Charles Dickens | Movie | 2007 |
 | Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space | President | Movie | 2007 |
| Mist: Sheepdog Tales | Narrator | TV Series | 2007 | |
 | In the Night Garden | Narrator (voice) | TV Series | 2007 |
| Anastezsi | Balzer | Movie | 2007 | |
 | The Art of Francis Bacon | Derek Jacobi | Movie | 2007 |
 | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2006 |
 | Pinochet in Suburbia | Senator Augusto Pinochet | Movie | 2006 |
 | Underworld: Evolution | Alexander Corvinus | Movie | 2006 |
 | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Narrator(voice) | Movie | 2005 |
 | Nanny McPhee | Mr. Wheen | Movie | 2005 |
 | Bye Bye Blackbird | Lord Dempsey | Movie | 2005 |
 | Strength and Honor: Production Pods | Self | Movie | 2005 |
 | Doctor Who Confidential | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2005 |
 | Doctor Who | Professor Yana | TV Series | 2005 |
 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Colonel Protheroe | TV Series | 2004 |
 | Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On | Mr. Operatski (voice) | Movie | 2004 |
 | Strings | Nezo | Movie | 2004 |
 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | TV Series | 2004 |
 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | Movie | 2004 |
 | The Long Firm | Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby | TV Series | 2004 |
| London | Tacitus | TV Series | 2004 | |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Victor | Movie | 2004 | |
 | Doctor Who: The Scream of the Shalka | The Master | Movie | 2003 |
 | Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka | The Master (voice) | TV Series | 2003 |
 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | Movie | 2003 |
 | The Dinosaur Hunters | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2002 |
 | Inquisition | Cardinal Grand Inquisitor | Movie | 2002 |
 | Two Men Went To War | Maj. Merton | Movie | 2002 |
 | I, Claudius: A Television Epic | Self | Movie | 2002 |
 | Revengers Tragedy | The Duke | Movie | 2002 |
 | The Making of Gosford Park | Self | Movie | 2002 |
 | The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky | Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi) | Movie | 2002 |
 | The Gathering Storm | Stanley Baldwin | Movie | 2002 |
 | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage) | Movie | 2002 |
 | The Jury | George Cording QC | TV Series | 2002 |
 | Gosford Park | Probert | Movie | 2001 |
 | The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream | Theseus (voice) | Movie | 2001 |
| The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream | Thanks | Movie | 2001 |
 | David Macaulay: Mill Times | Priam Huntington (voice) | Movie | 2001 |
 | The Body | Father Lavelle | Movie | 2001 |
 | Revelation | Librarian | Movie | 2001 |
 | Great Escape: The Untold Story | Narrator | Movie | 2001 |
 | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Various Characters | Movie | 2000 |
 | The Wyvern Mystery | Squire Fairfield | Movie | 2000 |
| Wilfred | Voice | Movie | 2000 | |
 | Jason and the Argonauts | Phineas | TV Series | 2000 |
 | Gladiator | Gracchus | Movie | 2000 |
 | Up at the Villa | Lucky Leadbetter | Movie | 2000 |
| Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2000 | |
 | The Chimes | Narrator | Movie | 1999 |
 | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Father Leonor Fousnel | Movie | 1999 |
 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Francis Bacon | Movie | 1998 |
 | Basil | Father Frederick | Movie | 1998 |
 | Animated Epics: Beowulf | Narrator ( voice ) | Movie | 1998 |
 | Hamlet | King Claudius | Movie | 1996 |
 | Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | Movie | 1996 |
 | Breaking the Code | Alan Turing | Movie | 1996 |
 | The West | Self (voice) | TV Series | 1996 |
 | Witness Against Hitler | General | Movie | 1996 |
 | The Virgin in the Ice | Brother Cadfael | Movie | 1995 |
 | Achilles | Narrator | Movie | 1995 |
 | The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven (voice) | Movie | 1994 |
 | Baseball | Various (voice) | TV Series | 1994 |
| Baseball | (voice) | TV Series | 1994 |
 | Monk's Hood | Brother Cadfael | Movie | 1994 |
 | The Leper of St. Giles | Brother Cadfael | Movie | 1994 |
 | The Sanctuary Sparrow | Brother Cadfael | Movie | 1994 |
 | One Corpse Too Many | Brother Cadfael | Movie | 1994 |
 | Cadfael | Brother Cadfael | TV Series | 1994 |
 | The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher | Jeremy Fisher (voice) | Movie | 1994 |
 | David Macaulay: Roman City | Marcus Fabricius (voice) | Movie | 1994 |
| Circles of Deceit | Randal | Movie | 1993 | |
 | The Vision Thing | George Salisbury | Movie | 1993 |
 | Frasier | Jackson Hedley | TV Series | 1993 |
 | The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends | Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice) | TV Series | 1992 |
 | Aladdin | The Magician (voice) | Movie | 1992 |
| The Velvet Claw | Narrator | TV Series | 1992 | |
 | The Storyteller: Greek Myths | Daedalus | TV Series | 1991 |
 | Dead Again | Franklyn Madson | Movie | 1991 |
| In My Defence | Emile Zola | TV Series | 1991 | |
| The Fool | Mr. Frederick / Sir John | Movie | 1990 | |
 | The Civil War | William Russell / Various (voice) | TV Series | 1990 |
 | Discovering Hamlet | Himself | Movie | 1990 |
 | Henry V | Chorus | Movie | 1989 |
 | The Congress | (voice) | Movie | 1989 |
 | David Macaulay: Pyramid | Hordedef (voice) | Movie | 1989 |
 | The Tenth Man | The Imposter | Movie | 1988 |
 | Little Dorrit | Arthur Clennam | Movie | 1987 |
 | The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven | Movie | 1987 |
 | ScreenPlay | George Salisbury | TV Series | 1986 |
 | On Wings of Fire | Self | Movie | 1986 |
 | David Macaulay: Cathedral | Pierre (voice) | Movie | 1986 |
 | Mr. Pye | Mr. Pye | Movie | 1986 |
 | Mr Pye | Mr Pye | TV Series | 1986 |
| Wedden, dat..? | Self | TV Series | 1986 | |
 | The Statue of Liberty | Self (voice) | Movie | 1985 |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | Movie | 1985 | |
 | Enigma | Kurt Limmer | Movie | 1982 |
 | The Secret of NIMH | Nicodemus (voice) | Movie | 1982 |
 | Stranger in Town | The Stranger | Movie | 1982 |
 | Inside the Third Reich | Adolf Hitler | TV Series | 1982 |
 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Dom Claude Frollo | Movie | 1982 |
 | Charlotte | Daberlohn | Movie | 1981 |
 | The Man Who Went Up in Smoke | Martin Beck | Movie | 1980 |
 | Hamlet | Hamlet | Movie | 1980 |
 | The Human Factor | Arthur Davis | Movie | 1979 |
 | Minder | Freddie Fenton | TV Series | 1979 |
 | Tales of the Unexpected | The Stranger | TV Series | 1979 |
| Tales of the Unexpected | Drioli | TV Series | 1979 |
 | Richard II | King Richard II | Movie | 1978 |
 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Richard II | TV Series | 1978 |
| The BBC Television Shakespeare | Hamlet | TV Series | 1978 |
 | The Medusa Touch | Townley - Publisher | Movie | 1978 |
 | Mysterious Castles of Clay | Narrator | Movie | 1978 |
 | Philby, Burgess and Maclean | Guy Burgess | Movie | 1977 |
 | I, Claudius | Claudius | TV Series | 1976 |
 | Blue Blood | Gregory | Movie | 1974 |
 | The Odessa File | Klaus Wenzer | Movie | 1974 |
 | Affairs of the Heart | Bertram Braddle | TV Series | 1974 |
 | NOVA | Voice of Ernest Shackleton | TV Series | 1974 |
 | The Pallisers | Lord Fawn | TV Series | 1974 |
 | The Day of the Jackal | Inspector Caron | Movie | 1973 |
 | Man of Straw | Diederich Hessling | TV Series | 1972 |
 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | William Drew | TV Series | 1971 |
 | Budgie | Herbert Fletcher | TV Series | 1971 |
 | Three Sisters | Andrei | Movie | 1970 |
 | ITV Playhouse | Gerry | TV Series | 1967 |
 | Much Ado About Nothing | Don John | Movie | 1967 |
 | Othello | Cassio | Movie | 1965 |
 | Horizon | Narrator | TV Series | 1964 |
| The Fishing Match | Eric | Movie | 1962 | |
 | Armchair Theatre | Eric | TV Series | 1956 |
 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner | TV Series | 1956 |
| Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | TV Series | 1956 |
 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Dom Claude | TV Series | 1951 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Archibald Craven | TV Series | 1951 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Imposter | TV Series | 1951 |
| Venom! Nine Ways to Die | Narrator | Movie | — | |
| Lead Heads | Self / Appearance | Movie | — |