Derek Jacobi
Known for Acting · 223 credits
- Born
- 1938-10-22 (age 87)
- Place of birth
- Leytonstone, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- 데릭 자코비 · デレク ジャコビ · درک جاکوبی
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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Known For
TV Shows (59)
Doctor Who
2005
as Professor Yana
Frasier
1993
as Jackson Hedley
NOVA
1974
as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
Horizon
1964
as Narrator
The Crown
2016
as Duke of Windsor
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner / Self - Nominee
The Sandman
2022
as Erasmus Fry
The Amazing World of Gumball
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Colonel Protheroe
Minder
1979
as Freddie Fenton
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as The Stranger / Drioli
Good Omens
2019
as The Metatron
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Gerry
Inside No. 9
2014
as Webster
The Borgias
2011
as Cardinal Orsini
The Pallisers
1974
as Lord Fawn
In the Night Garden
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Cadfael
1994
as Brother Cadfael
ScreenPlay
1986
as George Salisbury
Les Misérables
2018
as Bishop Myriel
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
as William Drew
Remembers…
2022
as Self
Ludwig
2024
as Mr. Todd
The Civil War
1990
as William Russell / Various (voice)
I, Claudius
1976
as Claudius
Budgie
1971
as Herbert Fletcher
Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012
as Lord Pirrie
Vicious
2013
as Stuart Bixby
The Jury
2002
as George Cording QC
Last Tango in Halifax
2012
as Alan
Jason and the Argonauts
2000
as Phineas
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
as Richard II / Hamlet
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Dom Claude / Archibald Craven / Imposter
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992
as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Wedden, dat..?
1986
as Self
Henry VIII
2003
as Narrator
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
2019
as Narrator
The West
1996
as Self (voice)
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
as Daedalus
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
2021
as Narrator
Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
2003
as The Master (voice)
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Adolf Hitler
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Eric
The Long Firm
2004
as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
Affairs of the Heart
1974
as Bertram Braddle
London
2004
as Tacitus
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009
as Self
Mr Pye
1986
as Mr Pye
The American Buffalo
2023
as (voice)
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012
as Himself
U-Boat Wargamers
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Man of Straw
1972
as Diederich Hessling
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023
as Sir Ralph Unwin
Diamonds
2009
The Velvet Claw
1992
as Narrator
Movies (164)
Heartstopper Forever
2026
as Pete
Gladiator
2000
as Gracchus
Cinderella
2015
as King
Gladiator II
2024
as Gracchus
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
as Edward Henry Masterman
The King's Speech
2010
as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Tomb Raider
2018
as Mr. Yaffe
The Golden Compass
2007
as Magisterial Emissary
Underworld: Evolution
2006
as Alexander Corvinus
Nanny McPhee
2005
as Mr. Wheen
The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Inspector Caron
Tolkien
2019
as Professor Joseph Wright
My Week with Marilyn
2011
as Sir Owen Morshead
The Secret of NIMH
1982
as Nicodemus (voice)
Ironclad
2011
as Cornhill
Gosford Park
2001
as Probert
Moss & Freud
2026
as Lucian Freud
Hereafter
2010
as Derek Jacobi
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002
as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
Effie Gray
2014
as Travers Twiss
Dead Again
1991
as Franklyn Madson
Hamlet
1996
as King Claudius
Juliet & Romeo
2025
as The Friar
Grace of Monaco
2014
as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
The Tenth Man
1988
as The Imposter
Anonymous
2011
as Prologue
The History of Love
2016
as Leopold Gursky
Circles of Deceit
1993
as Randal
Muse
2019
as The Lawyer
Tinsel Town
2025
as Albert
Looking for Richard
1996
as Self - Interviewee
Come Away
2020
as Mr. Brown
The Odessa File
1974
as Klaus Wenzer
The Gathering Storm
2002
as Stanley Baldwin
Stratton
2017
as Ross
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Hordedef (voice)
Henry V
1989
as Chorus
There Be Dragons
2011
as Honorio
Broken English
2026
as The Narrator
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019
as Claudius
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
as Dom Claude Frollo
Enigma
1982
as Kurt Limmer
A Bird Flew In
2022
as David
The Human Factor
1979
as Arthur Davis
Charlotte
1981
as Daberlohn
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
Guantanamero
2007
as Guido
Last Will. & Testament
2012
as Himself
Adam Resurrected
2008
as Dr. Nathan Gross
Venom
2015
as Narrator
Revelation
2001
as Librarian
David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986
as Pierre (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
1967
as Don John
Frank and Percy
The Chimes
1999
as Narrator
The Old Curiosity Shop
2007
as Grandfather
The Medusa Touch
1978
as Townley - Publisher
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
as Mercutio
One Corpse Too Many
1994
as Brother Cadfael
Allelujah
2023
as Ambrose
Aladdin
1992
as The Magician (voice)
The Secret Garden
1994
as Archibald Craven (voice)
The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994
as Brother Cadfael
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008
as Nigel Dewberry
Basil
1998
as Father Frederick
The Fishing Match
1962
as Eric
The Secret Garden
1987
as Archibald Craven
Strings
2004
as Nezo
Endgame
2009
as Rudolph Agnew
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
as The Master (archive footage)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994
as Jeremy Fisher (voice)
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998
as Francis Bacon
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
as Self
Revengers Tragedy
2002
as The Duke
Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998
as Narrator ( voice )
Witness Against Hitler
1996
as General
The Body
2001
as Father Lavelle
Monk's Hood
1994
as Brother Cadfael
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
as Self
Up at the Villa
2000
as Lucky Leadbetter
Sidney Turtlebaum
2008
as Sidney Turtlebaum
Blue Blood
1974
as Gregory
Mysterious Castles of Clay
1978
as Narrator
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
as Claudius/Spooner
The Fool
1990
as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
The Statue of Liberty
1985
as Self (voice)
Wilfred
2000
as Voice
Achilles
1995
as Narrator
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024
as Self
The Wyvern Mystery
2000
as Squire Fairfield
Strength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
as Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
The Devil of Christmas
2016
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Various Characters
Hamlet
1980
as Hamlet
Breaking the Code
1996
as Alan Turing
The Congress
1989
as (voice)
Little Dorrit
1987
as Arthur Clennam
Cloud Cuckoo Land
2004
as Victor
Pinochet in Suburbia
2006
as Senator Augusto Pinochet
The Gospel of Luke
2015
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Three Sisters
1970
as Andrei
The Vision Thing
1993
as George Salisbury
Richard II
1978
as King Richard II
Charles Dickens's England
2009
as Himself - Presenter
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017
as Scrooge
Othello
1965
as Cassio
Joe Maddison's War
2010
as Mr. Simpson
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002
as Narrator (voice)
Discovering Hamlet
1990
as Himself
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999
as Father Leonor Fousnel
Two Men Went To War
2002
as Maj. Merton
The Host
2020
as Dr. Hobson
Breaking The Codes
2020
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019
as Lord Palmerston
You
2013
as Man
Say Your Prayers
2021
as Father Enoch
Jail Caesar
2012
as Sulla
About Derek Jacobi
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 With 223 credits spanning from 1951 to 2026, Derek Jacobi has appeared in 164 films and 59 TV shows.
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- Heartstopper Forever (2026) — as Pete
- Gladiator (2000) — as Gracchus
- Cinderella (2015) — as King
- Gladiator II (2024) — as Gracchus
- Murder on the Orient Express (2017) — as Edward Henry Masterman
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