Acting · Leytonstone, London, England, UK · Born October 22, 1938
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
MovieHeartstopper Forever
2026
as Pete
MovieMoss & Freud
2026
as Lucian Freud
MovieBroken English
2026
as The Narrator
MovieTinsel Town
2025
as Albert
MovieJuliet & Romeo
2025
as The Friar
MovieDame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024
as Self
MovieGladiator II
2024
as Gracchus
TVLudwig
2024
as Mr. Todd
TVThe American Buffalo
2023
as (voice)
TVThe Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023
as Sir Ralph Unwin
MovieThe Martini Shot
2023
as Errol
MovieAllelujah
2023
as Ambrose
TVU-Boat Wargamers
2023
as Narrator (voice)
MoviePeter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
MovieA Bird Flew In
2022
as David
MoviePearl Islands
2022
as Self
TVThe Sandman
2022
as Erasmus Fry
TVRemembers…
2022
as Self
MovieAlbert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieSay Your Prayers
2021
as Father Enoch
TVThe Lost Pirate Kingdom
2021
as Narrator
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
2020
as Himself
MovieCome Away
2020
as Mr. Brown
MovieBreaking The Codes
2020
MovieThe Host
2020
as Dr. Hobson
MovieThe Warrior Queen of Jhansi
2019
as Lord Palmerston
MovieMuse
2019
as The Lawyer
MovieHorrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
2019
as Claudius
TVGreatest Events of World War II in Colour
2019
as Narrator
TVGood Omens
2019
as The Metatron
MovieTolkien
2019
as Professor Joseph Wright
TVLes Misérables
2018
as Bishop Myriel
2018: A Year in the Life of a Year
2018
MovieNothing Is Truer than Truth
2018
MovieTomb Raider
2018
as Mr. Yaffe
MovieA Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017
as Scrooge
MovieMurder on the Orient Express
2017
as Edward Henry Masterman
MovieCelebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017
MovieStratton
2017
as Ross
MovieThe Devil of Christmas
2016
MovieThe History of Love
2016
as Leopold Gursky
TVThe Crown
2016
as Duke of Windsor
MovieBranagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
as Mercutio
MovieKnights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
as Self (archive footage)
MovieVenom
2015
as Narrator
MovieCinderella
2015
as King
MovieThe Gospel of Luke
2015
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
MovieGrace of Monaco
2014
as Count Fernando D'Aillieres
MovieEffie Gray
2014
as Travers Twiss
TVInside No. 9
2014
as Webster
MovieYou
2013
as Man
MovieNational Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
as Claudius/Spooner
The Man Who Tried to Steal an Island
2013
as Narrator
MovieMuse of Fire
2013
as Self
TVVicious
2013
as Stuart Bixby
MovieDangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013
as Narrator (voice)
TVLast Tango in Halifax
2012
as Alan
MovieLast Will. & Testament
2012
as Himself
MovieThe Halloween Kid
2012
as Narrator
MovieJail Caesar
2012
as Sulla
TVShakespeare Uncovered
2012
as Himself
TVTitanic: Blood and Steel
2012
as Lord Pirrie
MovieMy Week with Marilyn
2011
as Sir Owen Morshead
MovieAnonymous
2011
as Prologue
MovieThrough the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
2011
as Narrator (voice)
TVThe Amazing World of Gumball
2011
as Narrator (voice)
TVThe Borgias
2011
as Cardinal Orsini
MovieThere Be Dragons
2011
as Honorio
MovieIronclad
2011
as Cornhill
MovieNational Theatre Live: King Lear
2011
as King Lear
MovieThe King's Speech
2010
as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
MovieHereafter
2010
as Derek Jacobi
MovieJoe Maddison's War
2010
as Mr. Simpson
MovieMargot
2009
as Fred Ashton
TVDoctor Who Greatest Moments
2009
as Self
MovieCharles Dickens's England
2009
as Himself - Presenter
Diamonds
2009
MovieDiamonds
2009
as Piers Denmont
MovieEndgame
2009
as Rudolph Agnew
MovieMorris: A Life with Bells On
2009
as Quentin Neely
MovieA Bunch of Amateurs
2008
as Nigel Dewberry
MovieSidney Turtlebaum
2008
as Sidney Turtlebaum
MoviePompeii and the Roman Villa
2008
as Narrator
MovieAdam Resurrected
2008
as Dr. Nathan Gross
MovieThe Ties That Bind Us
2008
as The Master (archive footage)
MovieOne of Those Days
2008
as Howard Whittam
MovieThe Old Curiosity Shop
2007
as Grandfather
MovieThe Golden Compass
2007
as Magisterial Emissary
MovieGuantanamero
2007
as Guido
MovieThe Riddle
2007
as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
MovieAirlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
2007
as President
MovieDoctor Who: Utopia & The Sound of Drums & Last of the Time Lords
2007
as Professor Yana / The Master
TVIn the Night Garden
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Anastezsi
2007
as Balzer
MovieThe Art of Francis Bacon
2007
as Derek Jacobi
MovieMist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2006
as Narrator (voice)
MoviePinochet in Suburbia
2006
as Senator Augusto Pinochet
MovieUnderworld: Evolution
2006
as Alexander Corvinus
MovieMist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2005
as Narrator(voice)
MovieNanny McPhee
2005
as Mr. Wheen
MovieBye Bye Blackbird
2005
as Lord Dempsey
MovieStrength and Honor: Production Pods
2005
as Self
TVDoctor Who Confidential
2005
TVDoctor Who
2005
as Professor Yana
TVAgatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Colonel Protheroe
MovieAngelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
2004
as Mr. Operatski (voice)
MovieStrings
2004
as Nezo
TVWho Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
MovieUnforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
TVThe Long Firm
2004
as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
London
2004
as Tacitus
Cloud Cuckoo Land
2004
as Victor
TVDoctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
2003
as The Master (voice)
TVHenry VIII
2003
as Narrator
MovieBroadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
MovieThe Dinosaur Hunters
2002
as Narrator (voice)
MovieInquisition
2002
as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
MovieTwo Men Went To War
2002
as Maj. Merton
MovieI, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
as Self
MovieRevengers Tragedy
2002
as The Duke
MovieThe Making of Gosford Park
2002
as Self
MovieThe Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002
as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
MovieThe Gathering Storm
2002
as Stanley Baldwin
MovieUltimate Fights from the Movies
2002
as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
TVThe Jury
2002
as George Cording QC
MovieGosford Park
2001
as Probert
MovieThe Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
2001
as Theseus (voice)
MovieDavid Macaulay: Mill Times
2001
as Priam Huntington (voice)
MovieThe Body
2001
as Father Lavelle
MovieRevelation
2001
as Librarian
MovieGreat Escape: The Untold Story
2001
as Narrator
MovieVictoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Various Characters
MovieThe Wyvern Mystery
2000
as Squire Fairfield
Wilfred
2000
as Voice
TVJason and the Argonauts
2000
as Phineas
MovieGladiator
2000
as Gracchus
MovieUp at the Villa
2000
as Lucky Leadbetter
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
MovieThe Chimes
1999
as Narrator
MovieMolokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999
as Father Leonor Fousnel
MovieLove Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998
as Francis Bacon
MovieBasil
1998
as Father Frederick
MovieAnimated Epics: Beowulf
1998
as Narrator ( voice )
MovieHamlet
1996
as King Claudius
MovieLooking for Richard
1996
as Self - Interviewee
MovieBreaking the Code
1996
as Alan Turing
TVThe West
1996
as Self (voice)
MovieWitness Against Hitler
1996
as General
MovieThe Virgin in the Ice
1995
as Brother Cadfael
MovieAchilles
1995
as Narrator
MovieThe Secret Garden
1994
as Archibald Craven (voice)
TVBaseball
1994
as Various (voice)
MovieMonk's Hood
1994
as Brother Cadfael
MovieThe Leper of St. Giles
1994
as Brother Cadfael
MovieThe Sanctuary Sparrow
1994
as Brother Cadfael
MovieOne Corpse Too Many
1994
as Brother Cadfael
TVCadfael
1994
as Brother Cadfael
MovieThe World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher
1994
as Jeremy Fisher (voice)
MovieDavid Macaulay: Roman City
1994
as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
Circles of Deceit
1993
as Randal
MovieThe Vision Thing
1993
as George Salisbury
TVFrasier
1993
as Jackson Hedley
TVThe World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992
as Mr. Jeremy Fisher (voice)
MovieAladdin
1992
as The Magician (voice)
The Velvet Claw
1992
as Narrator
TVThe Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
as Daedalus
MovieDead Again
1991
as Franklyn Madson
The Fool
1990
as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
TVThe Civil War
1990
as William Russell / Various (voice)
MovieDiscovering Hamlet
1990
as Himself
MovieHenry V
1989
as Chorus
MovieThe Congress
1989
as (voice)
MovieDavid Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Hordedef (voice)
MovieThe Tenth Man
1988
as The Imposter
MovieLittle Dorrit
1987
as Arthur Clennam
MovieThe Secret Garden
1987
as Archibald Craven
TVScreenPlay
1986
as George Salisbury
MovieOn Wings of Fire
1986
as Self
MovieDavid Macaulay: Cathedral
1986
as Pierre (voice)
Mr. Pye
1986
as Mr. Pye
TVMr Pye
1986
as Mr Pye
Wedden, dat..?
1986
as Self
MovieThe Statue of Liberty
1985
as Self (voice)
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
as Cyrano de Bergerac
MovieEnigma
1982
as Kurt Limmer
MovieThe Secret of NIMH
1982
as Nicodemus (voice)
MovieStranger in Town
1982
as The Stranger
TVInside the Third Reich
1982
as Adolf Hitler
MovieThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
as Dom Claude Frollo
MovieCharlotte
1981
as Daberlohn
MovieThe Man Who Went Up in Smoke
1980
as Martin Beck
MovieHamlet
1980
as Hamlet
MovieThe Human Factor
1979
as Arthur Davis
TVMinder
1979
as Freddie Fenton
TVTales of the Unexpected
1979
as The Stranger
MovieRichard II
1978
as King Richard II
TVThe BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
as Richard II
MovieThe Medusa Touch
1978
as Townley - Publisher
MovieMysterious Castles of Clay
1978
as Narrator
MoviePhilby, Burgess and Maclean
1977
as Guy Burgess
TVI, Claudius
1976
as Claudius
MovieBlue Blood
1974
as Gregory
MovieThe Odessa File
1974
as Klaus Wenzer
TVAffairs of the Heart
1974
as Bertram Braddle
TVNOVA
1974
as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
TVThe Pallisers
1974
as Lord Fawn
MovieThe Day of the Jackal
1973
as Inspector Caron
TVMan of Straw
1972
as Diederich Hessling
TVThe Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
as William Drew
TVBudgie
1971
as Herbert Fletcher
MovieThree Sisters
1970
as Andrei
TVITV Playhouse
1967
as Gerry
MovieMuch Ado About Nothing
1967
as Don John
MovieOthello
1965
as Cassio
Olivier Talks About Othello
1965
as (archive footage)
TVHorizon
1964
as Narrator
The Fishing Match
1962
as Eric
TVArmchair Theatre
1956
as Eric
TVTony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Dom Claude
Venom! Nine Ways to Die
as Narrator
Lead Heads
Frank and Percy
