Derek Jacobi

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1938 age 0

   Born

2. 1973 age 35

   CreditThe Day of the Jackal

3. 1989 age 51

   CreditHenry V

4. 2000 age 62

   CreditGladiator

5. 2001 age 63

   CreditGosford Park

6. 2005 age 67

   CreditNanny McPhee

7. 2006 age 68

   CreditUnderworld: Evolution

8. 2007 age 69

   CreditThe Golden Compass

9. 2010 age 72

   CreditHereafter

   CreditThe King's Speech

10. 2011 age 73

    CreditAnonymous

    CreditMy Week with Marilyn

11. 2014 age 76

    CreditGrace of Monaco

12. 2015 age 77

    CreditCinderella

13. 2017 age 79

    CreditMurder on the Orient Express

14. 2018 age 80

    CreditTomb Raider

15. 2024 age 86

    CreditGladiator II

• PDPatrick Doyle5 titles
• KBKenneth Branagh4 titles
• RSRidley Scott3 titles
• HCHelena Bonham Carter3 titles
• GSGeraldine Somerville3 titles
• ADAlexandre Desplat3 titles
• JDJudi Dench3 titles
• CDCharles Dance2 titles
• DRDavid Rintoul2 titles
• DFDavid Franzoni2 titles

• Spouse

  • RCRichard Clifford

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• The only ego I've got is when I'm performing.

  Derek Jacobi, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My abiding memory ... is my mother’s reaction. [...] She and my father attended a big first night at the Vic, with all the glitterati there — Judy Garland and goodness knows who else. My poor parents were gobsmacked. Anyway, Sir Laurence comes up at the reception and asks my mother if she has seen the Othello film yet. "Oh yes, we thought it was very good, Sir Laurence," she replies, "but that was a bugger of a wig you made Derek wear." She was quite right. It was a bugger of a wig — but I just wanted the ground to swallow us up.

  Derek Jacobi, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United Kingdom

Languages

English

Years active

1961–

Genres

drama fiction, historical film

Notable works

The Martini Shot

Education

Leyton Sixth Form College, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, St John's College, University of Cambridge