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 Birth Date: October 22, 1938
Birth Place: Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Derek Jacobi is one of Britain's most brilliant stage actors, who has also appeared in films and on television. He is perhaps best known in the UK for his stunning portrayal of the title character in the BBC series I Claudius, for which he won a BAFTA TV award for Best Actor, and for his portrayal of Hitler in Inside The Third Reich.
More recently Jacobi has been seen in feature films including Robert Altman's Gosford Park; Ridley Scott's Gladiator; and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Dead Again, and Henry V. Other feature film credits include Christine Edzard's Little Dorrit; Otto Preminger's The Human Factor; Jade Gold's The Medusa Touch; Ronald Neame's The Odessa File; and Fred Zimmerman's The Day of the Jackal.
Jacobi studied at Cambridge and trained at the Birmingham Repertory Company until Laurence Oliver saw him perform and invited him to join the National Theatre Company. There, Jacobi performed in countless roles and was featured in the Olivier produced films of Othello and Three Sisters. Later stage work includes Hamlet (Old Vic tour), Anthony & Cleopatra (Cambridge Theatre Co), Much Ado About Nothing (1987, RSC Tour of NY and Washington), for which he received a TONY award, Cyrano de Bergerac (1987, RSC Tour of NY and Washington), Breaking The Code (1987-88, Neil Simon Theatre), for which he received a TONY nomination, and more recently Uncle Vanya (1996, Chichester Festival & National Tour), and The Tempest (2002, Sheffield Crucible, Old Vic).
Other television performances include Granada's Philby, Burgess and Maclean; the BBC's Richard II, Hamlet, Breaking The Code, Randall & Hopkirk, Peter Ackroyd's London, and The Long Firm; NBC's Frasier; and HBO's A Lonely War.
He recently starred in the acclaimed West End production of Don Carlos.
Jacobi was awarded the CBE in 1985 and was knighted in 1994.
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