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Sep 14, 2024 · After earning critical plaudits for such demanding stage roles as Oedipus Rex, Jacobi achieved international stardom in 1976 with his award-winning characterization of the title role in the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television miniseries I, Claudius.
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Sir Derek George Jacobi CBE (/ ˈ dʒ æ k ə b i /; 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.
Outside the theatre, Jacobi became well known for his breakthrough role as Emperor Claudius in I, Claudius and Richard II, the latter starring John Gielgud. He also starred in an episode of Frasier, as well as films Gladiator, Breaking the Code and The King's Speech.
- Cambridge in The 1950s
- Talent Recognized by Olivier
- Increasingly Diverse Roles
- Jacobi as The Danish Prince
- "Absolute Stark Terror"
- Unsure About Tonsure
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Jacobi continued to act throughout his teens, and garnered favorable press for his debut as Hamlet in the 1955 National Youth Theatre production of the Shakespearean tragedy at the Edinburgh Festival. After graduating from Leyton County High School, Jacobi entered St. John's College at Cambridge Universityon a scholarship. He promptly enrolled in t...
In Birmingham, Jacobi moved from Jacobean and Elizabethan drama to roles in modern experimental theater. A stint in Birmingham was considered a stepping stone to the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company. When Jacobi received what he believed was his RSC offer, he resigned from Birmingham and went to Stratford-upon-Avon. He was surprised to learn t...
A serious film offer came for Jacobi in The Day of the Jackal in 1973; an assassination thriller set in France and based on the Frederick Forsyth novel of the same name. Jacobi also appeared in The Odessa Files and in an acclaimed film version of Three Sistersdirected for the stage by Olivier. In addition to the forays into film, Jacobi also became...
In November of 1979, the Prospect Theater Company became the first British troupe to perform in communist China, and Jacobi electrified Chinese audiences with his lead in Hamlet. It was also broadcast on live television, and 100 million Chinese reportedly tuned in as well. The following year, Jacobi finally made his Broadway debut in a play called ...
Jacobi finally received the long-awaited offer from the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982. With the company, he returned to Broadway in 1984 for a dual tour of Cyrano de Bergerac and Much Ado about Nothing. The two roles were scheduled to run simultaneously, with Jacobi enacting the swashbuckler with the prominent nose during the matinee of Cyrano ...
Jacobi returned to PBS with great success in the mid-1990s as the lead in the Mystery!series Brother Cadfael. He played a twelfth-century crime-solving monk in Shrewsbury, England, an informally trained physician and veteran of one of the Crusades who solves local murder mysteries-at times against the orders of his religious superiors-using his ext...
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Television. Theatre. References. External links. Derek Jacobi on screen and stage. Jacobi in London, 2009. Derek Jacobi is an English actor of the stage and screen.
Preeminent British classical actor of the first post-Olivier generation, Derek Jacobi was knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre, and, in fact, is only the second to enjoy the honor of holding TWO knighthoods, Danish and English (Olivier was the other).
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Oct 19, 2023 · ‘It was sheer hell’: Derek Jacobi on the chaotic birth of the National Theatre Sixty years ago, Jacobi and Rosemary Harris appeared with Peter O'Toole in Hamlet, the NT’s first show.
