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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A" title="ديريك جاكوبي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ديريك جاكوبي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%AC%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%8C" title="درک جاکوبی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="درک جاکوبی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%BA_%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B9" title="Ντέρεκ Τζάκομπι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ντέρεκ Τζάκομπι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_George_Jacobi" title="Derek George Jacobi – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Derek George Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%AC%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%8C" title="درک جاکوبی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="درک جاکوبی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EB%A6%AD_%EC%9E%AC%EC%BB%A4%EB%B9%84" title="데릭 재커비 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="데릭 재커비" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%AF_%D5%8B%D5%A5%D5%AF%D5%B8%D5%A2%D5%AB" title="Դերեկ Ջեկոբի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դերեկ Ջեկոբի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%A7_%D7%92%27%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%99" title="דרק ג'קובי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דרק ג'קובי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%89" title="ديريك جاكوبى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ديريك جاكوبى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B3%E3%83%93" title="デレク・ジャコビ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="デレク・ジャコビ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B8,_%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA" title="Джекоби, Дерек – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Джекоби, Дерек" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA_%D0%8F%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B8" title="Дерек Џејкоби – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Дерек Џејкоби" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Derek Jacobi" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%96" title="Дерек Джейкобі – Ukrainian" lang="uk" 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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St John's College, Cambridge">St John's College, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Actor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1959–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Works</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Derek_Jacobi_on_screen_and_stage" title="Derek Jacobi on screen and stage">Full list</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Partner</th><td class="infobox-data">Richard Clifford (1979–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Derek_Jacobi" title="List of awards and nominations received by Derek Jacobi">Full list</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" 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data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description">recorded 2012, as part of an <a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Derek_Jacobi_on_the_Old_Vic_Theatre.ogg" title="File:Sir Derek Jacobi on the Old Vic Theatre.ogg">audio description of the Old Vic Theatre</a> for <a href="/wiki/VocalEyes" title="VocalEyes">VocalEyes</a></div></div></div></div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sir Derek George Jacobi</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">CBE</a></span></span> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/dʒ/: 'j' in 'jam'">dʒ</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span 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He is known for his work at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">Royal National Theatre</a> and for his film and television roles. He has received numerous accolades including a <a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="BAFTA Award">BAFTA Award</a>, two <a href="/wiki/Olivier_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="Olivier Awards">Olivier Awards</a>, two <a href="/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Awards" title="Primetime Emmy Awards">Primetime Emmy Awards</a>, two <a href="/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild_Awards" title="Screen Actors Guild Awards">Screen Actors Guild Awards</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Tony Award">Tony Award</a>. He was given a <a href="/wiki/Knight_Bachelor" title="Knight Bachelor">knighthood</a> for his services to theatre by <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jacobi started his professional acting career with <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> as one of the founding members of the National Theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-Grdn2022_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grdn2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has appeared in numerous <a href="/wiki/Shakespearean" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespearean">Shakespearean</a> stage productions including <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" title="Much Ado About Nothing">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tempest" title="The Tempest">The Tempest</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet">Romeo and Juliet</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Grdn2022_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grdn2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wheatley_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wheatley-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ibdb.com_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ibdb.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jacobi received the <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Laurence Olivier Award">Laurence Olivier Award</a>, for the <a href="/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac" title="Cyrano de Bergerac">title role</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac_(play)" title="Cyrano de Bergerac (play)">Cyrano de Bergerac</a></i> in 1983 and Malvolio in <i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i> in 2009. He also won the <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award_for_Best_Actor_in_a_Play" title="Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play">Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play</a> for his role as Benedick in <i><a href="/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" title="Much Ado About Nothing">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i> in 1985. </p><p>On television, he portrayed <a href="/wiki/Claudius" title="Claudius">Claudius</a> in the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> series <i><a href="/wiki/I,_Claudius_(TV_series)" title="I, Claudius (TV series)">I, Claudius</a></i> (1976), for which he won the <a href="/wiki/British_Academy_of_Film_and_Television_Arts" title="British Academy of Film and Television Arts">British Academy Television Award for Best Actor</a>. He received two <a href="/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Awards" title="Primetime Emmy Awards">Primetime Emmy Awards</a> for <a href="/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Supporting_Actor_in_a_Limited_or_Anthology_Series_or_Movie" title="Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie">Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tenth_Man_(1988_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Tenth Man (1988 film)">The Tenth Man</a></i> (1988), and <a href="/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Guest_Actor_in_a_Comedy_Series" title="Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series">Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/Frasier" title="Frasier">Frasier</a></i> (2001). He also took roles in <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> drama series <i><a href="/wiki/Cadfael_(TV_series)" title="Cadfael (TV series)">Cadfael</a></i> (1994–1998), the <a href="/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a> film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gathering_Storm_(2002_film)" title="The Gathering Storm (2002 film)">The Gathering Storm</a></i> (2002), the <a href="/wiki/Sitcom" title="Sitcom">sitcom</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Vicious_(TV_series)" title="Vicious (TV series)">Vicious</a></i> (2013-2016), in <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Last_Tango_in_Halifax" title="Last Tango in Halifax">Last Tango in Halifax</a></i> (2012–2020), and the <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Crown_(TV_series)" title="The Crown (TV series)">The Crown</a></i> in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-Farndale-Telegraph_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farndale-Telegraph-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jacobi has acted in numerous films including <i><a href="/wiki/Othello_(1965_British_film)" title="Othello (1965 British film)">Othello</a></i> (1965), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Jackal_(film)" title="The Day of the Jackal (film)">The Day of the Jackal</a></i> (1973), <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_V_(1989_film)" title="Henry V (1989 film)">Henry V</a></i> (1989), <i><a href="/wiki/Dead_Again" title="Dead Again">Dead Again</a></i> (1991), <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1996_film)" title="Hamlet (1996 film)">Hamlet</a></i> (1996), <i><a href="/wiki/Nanny_McPhee" title="Nanny McPhee">Nanny McPhee</a></i> (2005), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Riddle_(film)" title="The Riddle (film)">The Riddle</a></i> (2007), <i><a href="/wiki/My_Week_with_Marilyn" title="My Week with Marilyn">My Week with Marilyn</a></i> (2011), <i><a href="/wiki/Anonymous_(2011_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anonymous (2011 film)">Anonymous</a></i> (2011), <i><a href="/wiki/Cinderella_(2015_American_film)" title="Cinderella (2015 American film)">Cinderella</a></i> (2015), and <i><a href="/wiki/Murder_on_the_Orient_Express_(2017_film)" title="Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)">Murder on the Orient Express</a></i> (2017). Jacobi portrayed Senator Gracchus in <a href="/wiki/Ridley_Scott" title="Ridley Scott">Ridley Scott's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Gladiator_(2000_film)" title="Gladiator (2000 film)">Gladiator</a></i> (2000) and <i><a href="/wiki/Gladiator_II" title="Gladiator II">Gladiator II</a></i> (2024). Jacobi has also earned two <a href="/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild_Awards" title="Screen Actors Guild Awards">Screen Actors Guild Awards</a> along with the <a href="/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild_Award_for_Outstanding_Performance_by_a_Cast_in_a_Motion_Picture" title="Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture">ensemble cast</a> for <a href="/wiki/Robert_Altman" title="Robert Altman">Robert Altman</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Gosford_Park" title="Gosford Park">Gosford Park</a></i> (2001), and <a href="/wiki/Tom_Hooper" title="Tom Hooper">Tom Hooper</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_King%27s_Speech" title="The King's Speech">The King's Speech</a></i> (2010). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Jacobi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Derek George Jacobi was born on 22 October 1938 in <a href="/wiki/Leytonstone" title="Leytonstone">Leytonstone</a>, Essex, England, the only child of Daisy Gertrude (née Masters; 1910–1980), a secretary who worked in a <a href="/wiki/Drapery" title="Drapery">drapery</a> store in Leyton High Road, and Alfred George Jacobi (1910–1993), who ran a sweet shop<sup id="cite_ref-Grdn2022_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grdn2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was a <a href="/wiki/Tobacconist" title="Tobacconist">tobacconist</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chingford" title="Chingford">Chingford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His patrilineal great-grandfather had emigrated from Germany to England during the 19th century. He also has a distant <a href="/wiki/Huguenot" class="mw-redirect" title="Huguenot">Huguenot</a> ancestor.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His family was working-class,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Jacobi describes his childhood as happy. In his teens he went to Leyton County High School for Boys, now known as the <a href="/wiki/Leyton_Sixth_Form_College" title="Leyton Sixth Form College">Leyton Sixth Form College</a>, and became an integral part of the drama club, The Players of <a href="/wiki/Leyton" title="Leyton">Leyton</a>. </p><p>While in the <a href="/wiki/Sixth_form" title="Sixth form">sixth form</a>, he starred in a production of <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a>,</i> which was taken to the <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Festival_Fringe" title="Edinburgh Festival Fringe">Edinburgh Festival Fringe</a> and very well regarded.<sup id="cite_ref-Grdn2022_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grdn2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At 18 he won a scholarship to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a>, where he read history at <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St John's College, Cambridge">St John's College</a> and earned his degree. Younger members of the university at the time included <a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a><sup id="cite_ref-Grdn2022_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grdn2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (who had a crush on him—"a passion that was undeclared and unrequited", as McKellen relates it)<sup id="cite_ref-advocate-2001_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-advocate-2001-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Nunn" title="Trevor Nunn">Trevor Nunn</a>. During his studies at Cambridge, Jacobi played many parts including <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i>, which was taken on a tour to Switzerland, where he met <a href="/wiki/Richard_Burton" title="Richard Burton">Richard Burton</a>. As a result of his performance of <i><a href="/wiki/Edward_II_(play)" title="Edward II (play)">Edward II</a></i> at Cambridge, Jacobi was invited to become a member of the <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Repertory_Theatre" title="Birmingham Repertory Theatre">Birmingham Repertory Theatre</a> immediately upon his graduation in 1960. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Jacobi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1959–1979:_Stage_debut_and_breakthrough"><span id="1959.E2.80.931979:_Stage_debut_and_breakthrough"></span>1959–1979: Stage debut and breakthrough</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Jacobi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1959–1979: Stage debut and breakthrough"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Laurence_Olivier_(borders_removed).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Laurence_Olivier_%28borders_removed%29.jpg/170px-Laurence_Olivier_%28borders_removed%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Laurence_Olivier_%28borders_removed%29.jpg/255px-Laurence_Olivier_%28borders_removed%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Laurence_Olivier_%28borders_removed%29.jpg/340px-Laurence_Olivier_%28borders_removed%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2916" data-file-height="3746" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> discovered <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Derek Jacobi</a> inviting him to join the <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theater" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal National Theater">Royal National Theater</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Jacobi's talent was recognised by <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a>, who invited the young actor back to London to become one of the founding members of the new <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">National Theatre</a>, even though at the time Jacobi was relatively unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-Grdn2022_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grdn2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He played <a href="/wiki/Laertes_(Hamlet)" title="Laertes (Hamlet)">Laertes</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">National Theatre's</a> inaugural production of <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> opposite <a href="/wiki/Peter_O%27Toole" title="Peter O'Toole">Peter O'Toole</a> in 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-Grdn2022_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grdn2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Olivier cast him as <a href="/wiki/Michael_Cassio" title="Michael Cassio">Cassio</a> in the successful National Theatre stage production of <i><a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a></i>, a role that Jacobi repeated in the <a href="/wiki/Othello_(1965_British_film)" title="Othello (1965 British film)">1965 film version</a>. He played Andrei in the NT production and film of <i><a href="/wiki/Three_Sisters_(1970_film)" title="Three Sisters (1970 film)">Three Sisters</a></i> (1970), both featuring Olivier. On 27 July 1965, Jacobi played Brindsley Miller in the first production of <a href="/wiki/Peter_Shaffer" title="Peter Shaffer">Peter Shaffer</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Comedy_(play)" title="Black Comedy (play)">Black Comedy</a></i>. It was presented by the National Theatre at Chichester and subsequently in London. </p><p>After eight years at the National Theatre, Jacobi left in 1971 to pursue different roles. In 1972, he starred in the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> serial <i><a href="/wiki/Man_of_Straw_(TV_series)" title="Man of Straw (TV series)">Man of Straw</a></i>, an adaptation of <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Mann" title="Heinrich Mann">Heinrich Mann</a>'s book <i><a href="/wiki/Der_Untertan" title="Der Untertan">Der Untertan</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Wise" title="Herbert Wise">Herbert Wise</a>. Jacobi appeared in a somewhat comical role, as Lord Fawn, in eight episodes of the 26-episode mini-series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pallisers" title="The Pallisers">The Pallisers</a></i> for <a href="/wiki/BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a> in 1974. Most of his theatrical work in the 1970s was with the touring classical <a href="/wiki/Prospect_Theatre_Company" title="Prospect Theatre Company">Prospect Theatre Company</a>, with which he undertook many roles, including <i><a href="/wiki/Ivanov_(play)" title="Ivanov (play)">Ivanov</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pericles,_Prince_of_Tyre" title="Pericles, Prince of Tyre">Pericles, Prince of Tyre</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/A_Month_in_the_Country_(play)" title="A Month in the Country (play)">A Month in the Country</a></i> opposite <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Tutin" title="Dorothy Tutin">Dorothy Tutin</a> (1976). </p><p>Jacobi was increasingly busy with stage and screen acting, but his big breakthrough came in 1976 when he played the title role in the BBC's series <i><a href="/wiki/I,_Claudius_(TV_series)" title="I, Claudius (TV series)">I, Claudius</a></i>. He cemented his reputation with his performance as the stammering, twitching <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Claudius" class="mw-redirect" title="Emperor Claudius">Emperor Claudius</a>, winning much praise.<sup id="cite_ref-Grdn2022_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grdn2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1979, thanks to his international popularity, he took <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> on a theatrical world tour through England, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, Greece, Sweden, Australia, Japan and China, playing <a href="/wiki/Prince_Hamlet" title="Prince Hamlet">Prince Hamlet</a>. He was invited to perform the role at <a href="/wiki/Kronborg_Castle" class="mw-redirect" title="Kronborg Castle">Kronborg Castle</a>, Denmark, known as Elsinore Castle, the setting of the play. In 1978, he appeared in the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Television_Shakespeare" title="BBC Television Shakespeare">BBC Television Shakespeare</a> production of <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_II_(play)" title="Richard II (play)">Richard II</a></i>, with Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a> and Dame <a href="/wiki/Wendy_Hiller" title="Wendy Hiller">Wendy Hiller</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980–1999:_Established_career"><span id="1980.E2.80.931999:_Established_career"></span>1980–1999: Established career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Jacobi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1980–1999: Established career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frank_Barrie_%26_Derek_Jacobi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Frank_Barrie_%26_Derek_Jacobi.jpg/220px-Frank_Barrie_%26_Derek_Jacobi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Frank_Barrie_%26_Derek_Jacobi.jpg/330px-Frank_Barrie_%26_Derek_Jacobi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Frank_Barrie_%26_Derek_Jacobi.jpg/440px-Frank_Barrie_%26_Derek_Jacobi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1936" /></a><figcaption>Jacobi with <a href="/wiki/Frank_Barrie" title="Frank Barrie">Frank Barrie</a> performing <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice" title="The Merchant of Venice">The Merchant of Venice</a></i> in 1971</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1980, Jacobi took the leading role in the BBC's <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i>, made his Broadway debut in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Suicide_(play)" title="The Suicide (play)">The Suicide</a></i> (a run shortened by Jacobi's return home to England due to the death of his mother), and joined the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">Royal Shakespeare Company</a> (RSC). From 1982 to 1985, he played four demanding roles simultaneously: Benedick in Shakespeare's <i><a href="/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" title="Much Ado About Nothing">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i>, for which he won a Tony for its Broadway run (1984–1985); Prospero in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tempest" title="The Tempest">The Tempest</a></i>; <i><a href="/wiki/Peer_Gynt" title="Peer Gynt">Peer Gynt</a></i>; and <i><a href="/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac_(play)" title="Cyrano de Bergerac (play)">Cyrano de Bergerac</a></i> which he brought to the US and played in repertory with <i><a href="/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" title="Much Ado About Nothing">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i> on Broadway and in Washington DC (1984–1985). In 1986, he made his West End debut in <i><a href="/wiki/Breaking_the_Code" title="Breaking the Code">Breaking the Code</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Whitemore" title="Hugh Whitemore">Hugh Whitemore</a>, starring in the role of <a href="/wiki/Alan_Turing" title="Alan Turing">Alan Turing</a>, which was written with Jacobi specifically in mind. The play was taken to Broadway. In 1988, Jacobi alternated in West End the title roles of Shakespeare's <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_II_(play)" title="Richard II (play)">Richard II</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i> in repertoire. </p><p>He appeared in the television dramas <i><a href="/wiki/Inside_the_Third_Reich_(film)" title="Inside the Third Reich (film)">Inside the Third Reich</a></i> (1982), where he played <a href="/wiki/Hitler" class="mw-redirect" title="Hitler">Hitler</a>; <i><a href="/wiki/Mr_Pye" title="Mr Pye">Mr Pye</a></i> (1985); <i><a href="/wiki/Little_Dorrit_(1987_film)" title="Little Dorrit (1987 film)">Little Dorrit</a></i> (1987), based on <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>'s novel; and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tenth_Man_(1988_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Tenth Man (1988 film)">The Tenth Man</a></i> (1988) with <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Hopkins" title="Anthony Hopkins">Anthony Hopkins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kristin_Scott_Thomas" title="Kristin Scott Thomas">Kristin Scott Thomas</a>. In 1982, he voiced Nicodemus in the animated film, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH" title="The Secret of NIMH">The Secret of NIMH</a></i>. In 1990, he starred as <a href="/wiki/Daedalus" title="Daedalus">Daedalus</a> in episode 4 of <i><a href="/wiki/Jim_Henson%27s_The_Storyteller:_Greek_Myths" class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Greek Myths">Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Greek Myths</a></i>. Jacobi continued to play Shakespeare roles, notably in <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh" title="Kenneth Branagh">Kenneth Branagh</a>'s 1989 film of <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_V_(1989_film)" title="Henry V (1989 film)">Henry V</a></i> (as <a href="/wiki/Greek_chorus" title="Greek chorus">the Chorus</a>), and made his directing debut as Branagh's director for the 1988 <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_Theatre_Company" title="Renaissance Theatre Company">Renaissance Theatre Company</a>'s touring production of <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i>, which also played at <a href="/wiki/Elsinore" class="mw-redirect" title="Elsinore">Elsinore</a> and as part of a Renaissance repertory season at the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Theatre,_London" title="Phoenix Theatre, London">Phoenix Theatre</a> in London. The 1990s saw Jacobi keeping on with repertoire stage work in <i>Kean</i> at <a href="/wiki/The_Old_Vic" title="The Old Vic">The Old Vic</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Becket" title="Becket">Becket</a></i> in the West End (the <a href="/wiki/Haymarket_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Haymarket Theatre">Haymarket Theatre</a>) and <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> at the RSC in both London and <a href="/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Stratford-upon-Avon">Stratford</a>. In 1993 Jacobi voiced Mr Jeremy Fisher in <i><a href="/wiki/The_World_of_Peter_Rabbit_and_Friends" title="The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends">The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends</a></i>. </p><p>He was appointed the joint <a href="/wiki/Artistic_director" title="Artistic director">artistic director</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Chichester_Festival_Theatre" title="Chichester Festival Theatre">Chichester Festival Theatre</a>, with the West End impresario Duncan Weldon in 1995 for a three-year tenure. As an actor at Chichester he also starred in four plays, including his first <i><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Vanya" title="Uncle Vanya">Uncle Vanya</a></i> in 1996 (he played it again in 2000, bringing the <a href="/wiki/Chekhov" class="mw-redirect" title="Chekhov">Chekhov</a> play to Broadway for a limited run). Jacobi's work during the 1990s included the 13-episode series TV adaptation of the novels by <a href="/wiki/Ellis_Peters" class="mw-redirect" title="Ellis Peters">Ellis Peters</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Cadfael_(TV_series)" title="Cadfael (TV series)">Cadfael</a></i> (1994–1998) and a televised version of <i>Breaking the Code</i> (1996). Film appearances of the era included performances in <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh" title="Kenneth Branagh">Kenneth Branagh</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Dead_Again" title="Dead Again">Dead Again</a></i> (1991), Branagh's full-text rendition of <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(1996_film)" title="Hamlet (1996 film)">Hamlet</a></i> (1996) as <a href="/wiki/King_Claudius" title="King Claudius">King Claudius</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Maybury" title="John Maybury">John Maybury</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Love_Is_the_Devil:_Study_for_a_Portrait_of_Francis_Bacon" title="Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon">Love is the Devil</a></i> (1998), a portrait of painter <a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist)" title="Francis Bacon (artist)">Francis Bacon</a>, as Senator Gracchus in <i><a href="/wiki/Gladiator_(2000_film)" title="Gladiator (2000 film)">Gladiator</a></i> (2000) with <a href="/wiki/Russell_Crowe" title="Russell Crowe">Russell Crowe</a>, and as "The Duke" opposite <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Eccleston" title="Christopher Eccleston">Christopher Eccleston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Izzard" title="Eddie Izzard">Eddie Izzard</a> in a post-<a href="/wiki/Apocalypse" title="Apocalypse">apocalyptic</a> version of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Middleton" title="Thomas Middleton">Thomas Middleton</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Revenger%27s_Tragedy" title="The Revenger's Tragedy">The Revenger's Tragedy</a></i> (2002). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000–present"><span id="2000.E2.80.93present"></span>2000–present</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Jacobi&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2000–present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Derek_Jacobi_2013.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Derek_Jacobi_2013.jpg/170px-Derek_Jacobi_2013.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="243" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Derek_Jacobi_2013.jpg/255px-Derek_Jacobi_2013.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Derek_Jacobi_2013.jpg/340px-Derek_Jacobi_2013.jpg 2x" data-file-width="448" data-file-height="641" /></a><figcaption>Jacobi in 2013</figcaption></figure> <p>Jacobi has narrated audio book versions of the <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Voyage_of_the_Dawn_Treader" title="The Voyage of the Dawn Treader">The Voyage of the Dawn Treader</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. S. Lewis">C. S. Lewis</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Farmer_Giles_of_Ham" title="Farmer Giles of Ham">Farmer Giles of Ham</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>, and two abridged versions of <i><a href="/wiki/I,_Claudius" title="I, Claudius">I, Claudius</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Graves" title="Robert Graves">Robert Graves</a>. In 2001, he provided the voice of "Duke Theseus" in <i>The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream</i> film. At the <a href="/wiki/53rd_Primetime_Emmy_Awards" title="53rd Primetime Emmy Awards">53rd Primetime Emmy Awards</a>, Jacobi won an <a href="/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Guest_Actor_in_a_Comedy_Series" title="Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series">Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by mocking his Shakespearean background in the television sitcom <i><a href="/wiki/Frasier" title="Frasier">Frasier</a></i> episode "<a href="/wiki/Frasier_(season_8)" class="mw-redirect" title="Frasier (season 8)">The Show Must Go Off</a>", in which he played the hammy, loud, untalented Jackson Hedley, a television star with a misguided belief that he deserves a revival of his stage career. In 2002, Jacobi toured Australia in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hollow_Crown_(TV_series)" title="The Hollow Crown (TV series)">The Hollow Crown</a></i> with Sir <a href="/wiki/Donald_Sinden" title="Donald Sinden">Donald Sinden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ian_Richardson" title="Ian Richardson">Ian Richardson</a> and Dame <a href="/wiki/Diana_Rigg" title="Diana Rigg">Diana Rigg</a>. Jacobi also played the role of Senator Gracchus in <a href="/wiki/Gladiator_(2000_film)" title="Gladiator (2000 film)"><i>Gladiator</i></a> and starred in the 2002 miniseries <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jury_(TV_serial)" title="The Jury (TV serial)">The Jury</a></i>. He is also the narrator for the BBC children's series <i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Night_Garden..." title="In the Night Garden...">In the Night Garden...</a></i>. </p><p>In 2003, Jacobi was involved with <i><a href="/wiki/Scream_of_the_Shalka" title="Scream of the Shalka">Scream of the Shalka</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Webcast" title="Webcast">webcast</a> based on the science fiction series <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i>. He played the voice of the Doctor's nemesis <a href="/wiki/The_Master_(Doctor_Who)" title="The Master (Doctor Who)">the Master</a> alongside <a href="/wiki/Richard_E._Grant" title="Richard E. Grant">Richard E. Grant</a> as <a href="/wiki/The_Doctor_(Doctor_Who)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Doctor (Doctor Who)">the Doctor</a>. In the same year, he also appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/Deadline_(audio_drama)" class="mw-redirect" title="Deadline (audio drama)">Deadline</a></i>, an audio drama also based on <i>Doctor Who</i>. Therein he played Martin Bannister, an ageing writer who makes up stories about "the Doctor", a character who travels in time and space, the premise being that the series had never made it on to television. Jacobi later followed this up with an appearance in the <i>Doctor Who</i> episode "<a href="/wiki/Utopia_(Doctor_Who)" title="Utopia (Doctor Who)">Utopia</a>" (June 2007); he appears as the kindly Professor Yana, who by the end of the episode is revealed to be <a href="/wiki/The_Master_(Doctor_Who)" title="The Master (Doctor Who)">the Master</a>. Jacobi admitted to <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who_Confidential" title="Doctor Who Confidential">Doctor Who Confidential</a></i> he had always wanted to be on the show: "One of my ambitions since the '60s has been to take part in a <i>Doctor Who</i>. The other one is <i><a href="/wiki/Coronation_Street" title="Coronation Street">Coronation Street</a></i>. So I've cracked <i>Doctor Who</i> now. I'm still waiting for <i>Corrie</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004, Jacobi starred in <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Don_Carlos_(play)" title="Don Carlos (play)">Don Carlos</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/Crucible_Theatre" title="Crucible Theatre">Crucible Theatre</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a>, in an acclaimed production, which transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Gielgud_Theatre" title="Gielgud Theatre">Gielgud Theatre</a> in London in January 2005. The London production of <i>Don Carlos</i> gathered rave reviews. Also in 2004, he starred as Lord Teddy Thursby in the first of the four-part BBC series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Firm" class="mw-redirect" title="The Long Firm">The Long Firm</a></i>, based on <a href="/wiki/Jake_Arnott" title="Jake Arnott">Jake Arnott</a>'s novel of the same name. In <i><a href="/wiki/Nanny_McPhee" title="Nanny McPhee">Nanny McPhee</a></i> (2005), he played the role of the colourful Mr. Wheen, an undertaker. He played the role of <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Corvinus" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Corvinus">Alexander Corvinus</a> in the 2006 action-horror film <i><a href="/wiki/Underworld:_Evolution" title="Underworld: Evolution">Underworld: Evolution</a></i>. </p><p>In March 2006, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a> broadcast <i><a href="/wiki/Pinochet_in_Suburbia" title="Pinochet in Suburbia">Pinochet in Suburbia</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Docudrama" title="Docudrama">docudrama</a> about former Chilean dictator <a href="/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet" title="Augusto Pinochet">Augusto Pinochet</a> and the attempts to <a href="/wiki/Extradite" class="mw-redirect" title="Extradite">extradite</a> him from Great Britain; Jacobi played the leading role. In September 2007, it was released in the U.S., retitled <i>Pinochet's Last Stand</i>. In 2006, he appeared in the children's movie <i>Mist</i>, the tale of a sheepdog puppy, he also narrated this movie. In July–August 2006, he played the eponymous role in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Voyage_Round_My_Father" title="A Voyage Round My Father">A Voyage Round My Father</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/Donmar_Warehouse" title="Donmar Warehouse">Donmar Warehouse</a>, a production which then transferred to the West End. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Derek_Jacobi-autograph.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Derek_Jacobi-autograph.jpg/220px-Derek_Jacobi-autograph.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Derek_Jacobi-autograph.jpg/330px-Derek_Jacobi-autograph.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Derek_Jacobi-autograph.jpg/440px-Derek_Jacobi-autograph.jpg 2x" data-file-width="497" data-file-height="445" /></a><figcaption>Jacobi signing autographs after his performance in <i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i>, London, 2009</figcaption></figure> <p>In February 2007, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Riddle_(film)" title="The Riddle (film)">The Riddle</a></i>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Brendan_Foley_(filmmaker)" title="Brendan Foley (filmmaker)">Brendan Foley</a> and starring Jacobi, <a href="/wiki/Vinnie_Jones" title="Vinnie Jones">Vinnie Jones</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Vanessa_Redgrave" title="Vanessa Redgrave">Vanessa Redgrave</a>, was screened at Berlin EFM. Jacobi plays twin roles: first a present-day London tramp and then the ghost of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>. In March 2007, the BBC's children's programme <i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Night_Garden..." title="In the Night Garden...">In the Night Garden...</a></i> started its run of one hundred episodes, with Jacobi as the narrator. He played Nell's grandfather in ITV's Christmas 2007 adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Old_Curiosity_Shop" title="The Old Curiosity Shop">The Old Curiosity Shop</a></i>, and returned to the stage to play Malvolio in Shakespeare's <i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i> (2009) for the Donmar Warehouse at <a href="/wiki/Wyndham%27s_Theatre" title="Wyndham's Theatre">Wyndham's Theatre</a> in London.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The role won him the <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier_Award_for_Best_Actor" title="Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor">Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He appears in five 2009 films: <i><a href="/wiki/Morris:_A_Life_with_Bells_On" title="Morris: A Life with Bells On">Morris: A Life with Bells On</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hippie_Hippie_Shake" title="Hippie Hippie Shake">Hippie Hippie Shake</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Endgame_(2009_film)" title="Endgame (2009 film)">Endgame</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Adam_Resurrected" title="Adam Resurrected">Adam Resurrected</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens%27s_England" title="Charles Dickens's England">Charles Dickens's England</a>. In 2010, he returned to <i>I, Claudius</i>, as Augustus in a <a href="/wiki/I,_Claudius_(radio_adaptation)" title="I, Claudius (radio adaptation)">radio adaptation</a>. In 2011, he was part of a medieval epic, <i><a href="/wiki/Ironclad_(film)" title="Ironclad (film)">Ironclad</a></i>, which also starred James Purefoy and Paul Giamatti, as the ineffectual Reginald de Cornhill, castellan of Rochester castle. </p><p>Jacobi starred in <a href="/wiki/Michael_Grandage" title="Michael Grandage">Michael Grandage</a>'s production of <i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i> (London, 2010), giving what <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> called "one of the finest performances of his distinguished career".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Grdn2022_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grdn2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 2011, he reprised this role at the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Academy_of_Music" title="Brooklyn Academy of Music">Brooklyn Academy of Music</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2012, he appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/Titanic:_Blood_and_Steel" title="Titanic: Blood and Steel">Titanic: Blood and Steel</a></i> and in November 2012, he starred in the BBC series <i><a href="/wiki/Last_Tango_in_Halifax" title="Last Tango in Halifax">Last Tango in Halifax</a></i>. In 2013, he starred in the second series of <i>Last Tango</i>, and in 2014, the third series. In 2013, Jacobi starred alongside <a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a> in the <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> sitcom <i><a href="/wiki/Vicious_(TV_series)" title="Vicious (TV series)">Vicious</a></i> as Stuart Bixby, the partner to Freddie Thornhill, played by McKellen. On 23 August 2013, the show was renewed for a six-episode second series which began airing in June 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The show ended in December 2016, with a Christmas special. </p><p>Since 2017, Jacobi has again portrayed The Master in several box set series for <a href="/wiki/Big_Finish_Productions" title="Big Finish Productions">Big Finish Productions</a>, collectively entitled <a href="/wiki/The_War_Master_(audio_drama_series)" title="The War Master (audio drama series)">The War Master</a>. In 2018, he played the Bishop of Digne in the BBC miniseries <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(British_TV_series)" title="Les Misérables (British TV series)">Les Misérables</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, Jacobi received the World United Creator – Platinum Demiurge Award for his tremendous contribution to uniting and promoting world literature based on his efforts to introduce William Shakespeare into modern cinema. In 2019, he reprised the role of the emperor Claudius in <i><a href="/wiki/Horrible_Histories:_The_Movie_%E2%80%93_Rotten_Romans" title="Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans">Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2022, Jacobi appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/Allelujah_(film)" title="Allelujah (film)">Allelujah</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Film_adaptation" title="Film adaptation">film adaptation</a> of <a href="/wiki/Alan_Bennett" title="Alan Bennett">Alan Bennett</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Allelujah!" title="Allelujah!">play of the same name</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Eyre" title="Richard Eyre">Richard Eyre</a>, which also starred <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Saunders" title="Jennifer Saunders">Jennifer Saunders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bally_Gill" title="Bally Gill">Bally Gill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russell_Tovey" title="Russell Tovey">Russell Tovey</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Bradley_(English_actor)" title="David Bradley (English actor)">David Bradley</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Judi_Dench" title="Judi Dench">Judi Dench</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Grdn2022_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grdn2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Jacobi&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sexuality">Sexuality</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Jacobi&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Sexuality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In March 2006, four months after <a href="/wiki/Civil_partnerships_in_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom">civil partnerships were introduced in the United Kingdom</a>, Jacobi registered his partnership with Richard Clifford,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a theatre director, with whom he has been in a relationship since the late 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Grdn2022_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grdn2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They live in <a href="/wiki/West_Hampstead" title="West Hampstead">West Hampstead</a>, northwest London.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Along with his <i>Vicious</i> co-star <a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a>, he was a Grand Marshal of the 46th <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Gay_Pride_March" class="mw-redirect" title="New York City Gay Pride March">New York City Gay Pride March</a> in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Grdn2022_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grdn2022-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jacobi is an <a href="/wiki/Agnostic" class="mw-redirect" title="Agnostic">agnostic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Farndale-Telegraph_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farndale-Telegraph-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interests">Interests</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Jacobi&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Interests"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:00_poslednik_derek_pijarowski_20181126.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/00_poslednik_derek_pijarowski_20181126.jpg/220px-00_poslednik_derek_pijarowski_20181126.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/00_poslednik_derek_pijarowski_20181126.jpg/330px-00_poslednik_derek_pijarowski_20181126.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/00_poslednik_derek_pijarowski_20181126.jpg/440px-00_poslednik_derek_pijarowski_20181126.jpg 2x" data-file-width="828" data-file-height="717" /></a><figcaption>R. Poslednik, D. Jacobi & <a href="/wiki/Jaroslaw_Pijarowski" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaroslaw Pijarowski">Jaroslaw Pijarowski</a> with World United Creator – Platinum Demiurge Award for his contribution to uniting and promoting world literature based on his efforts to introduce William Shakespeare into modern cinema, London, 2018</figcaption></figure> <p>Jacobi has been publicly involved in the <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question" title="Shakespeare authorship question">Shakespeare authorship question</a>. He supports the <a href="/wiki/Oxfordian_theory_of_Shakespeare_authorship" title="Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship">Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship</a>, according to which <a href="/wiki/Edward_de_Vere,_17th_Earl_of_Oxford" title="Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford">Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford</a> wrote the works of Shakespeare.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jacobi has given an address to the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre promoting de Vere as the Shakespeare author<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and wrote forewords to two books on the subject in 2004 and 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2007, Jacobi and fellow Shakespearean actor and director <a href="/wiki/Mark_Rylance" title="Mark Rylance">Mark Rylance</a> initiated a "<a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_Reasonable_Doubt" title="Declaration of Reasonable Doubt">Declaration of Reasonable Doubt</a>" on the authorship of Shakespeare's work, to encourage new research into the question. In 2011, Jacobi accepted a role in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Anonymous_(2011_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anonymous (2011 film)">Anonymous</a></i>, about the Oxfordian theory, starring <a href="/wiki/Rhys_Ifans" title="Rhys Ifans">Rhys Ifans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vanessa_Redgrave" title="Vanessa Redgrave">Vanessa Redgrave</a>. In the film Jacobi narrates the Prologue and Epilogue, set in modern-day New York, while the film proper is set in Elizabethan England. Jacobi said that making the film was "a very risky thing to do", stating "the orthodox Stratfordians are going to be apoplectic with rage".<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Acting_credits_and_accolades">Acting credits and accolades</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Jacobi&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Acting credits and accolades"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Derek_Jacobi_on_screen_and_stage" title="Derek Jacobi on screen and stage">Derek Jacobi on screen and stage</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Derek_Jacobi" title="List of awards and nominations received by Derek Jacobi">List of awards and nominations received by Derek Jacobi</a></div> <p>Jacobi has received various awards including two <a href="/wiki/Olivier_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="Olivier Awards">Olivier Awards</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award_for_Best_Actor_in_a_Play" title="Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play">Tony</a>, a <a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Actor_in_a_Leading_Role" title="BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role">BAFTA</a>, two <a href="/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Awards" title="Primetime Emmy Awards">Primetime Emmy Awards</a> and two <a href="/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild_Awards" title="Screen Actors Guild Awards">Screen Actors Guild Awards</a>. </p> <ul><li>1985: Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">Order of the British Empire</a> (United Kingdom)<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1989: Knight 1st class of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Dannebrog" title="Order of the Dannebrog">Order of the Dannebrog</a> (<a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-britannica_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britannica-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1994: <a href="/wiki/Knight_Bachelor" title="Knight Bachelor">Knight Bachelor</a>, for services to Drama (United Kingdom)<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Jacobi&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Oxfordian_theory_supporters" title="List of Oxfordian theory supporters">List of Oxfordian theory supporters</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Jacobi&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media 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href="/wiki/Judith_Evelyn" title="Judith Evelyn">Judith Evelyn</a> (1942)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Lunt" title="Alfred Lunt">Alfred Lunt</a> (1943)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lynn_Fontanne" title="Lynn Fontanne">Lynn Fontanne</a> (1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mady_Christians" title="Mady Christians">Mady Christians</a> (1945)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Louis_Calhern" title="Louis Calhern">Louis Calhern</a> (1946)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ingrid_Bergman" title="Ingrid Bergman">Ingrid Bergman</a> (1947)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Judith_Anderson" title="Judith Anderson">Judith Anderson</a> (1948)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Morley" title="Robert Morley">Robert Morley</a> (1949)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Grace_George" title="Grace George">Grace George</a> (1950)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Claude_Rains" title="Claude Rains">Claude Rains</a> (1951)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Julie_Harris" title="Julie Harris">Julie Harris</a> (1952)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Shirley_Booth" title="Shirley Booth">Shirley Booth</a> (1953)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Josephine_Hull" title="Josephine Hull">Josephine Hull</a> (1954)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Viveca_Lindfors" title="Viveca Lindfors">Viveca Lindfors</a> (1955)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Wayne" title="David Wayne">David Wayne</a> (1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Eli_Wallach" title="Eli Wallach">Eli Wallach</a> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Bellamy" title="Ralph Bellamy">Ralph Bellamy</a> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cyril_Ritchard" title="Cyril Ritchard">Cyril Ritchard</a> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jessica_Tandy" title="Jessica Tandy">Jessica Tandy</a> (1960)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hume_Cronyn" title="Hume Cronyn">Hume Cronyn</a> (1961)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Boyer" title="Charles Boyer">Charles Boyer</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alec_Guinness" title="Alec Guinness">Alec Guinness</a> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Kiley" title="Richard Kiley">Richard Kiley</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rosemary_Harris" title="Rosemary Harris">Rosemary Harris</a> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Zoe_Caldwell" title="Zoe Caldwell">Zoe Caldwell</a> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alec_McCowen" title="Alec McCowen">Alec McCowen</a> (1969)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Stewart" title="James Stewart">James Stewart</a> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Quayle" title="Anthony Quayle">Anthony Quayle</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Eileen_Atkins" title="Eileen Atkins">Eileen Atkins</a> / <a href="/wiki/Claire_Bloom" title="Claire Bloom">Claire Bloom</a> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Bates" title="Alan Bates">Alan Bates</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Plummer" title="Christopher Plummer">Christopher Plummer</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Wood_(English_actor)" title="John Wood (English actor)">John Wood</a> (1975)</span></li> <li><span 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<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Irons" title="Jeremy Irons">Jeremy Irons</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Derek Jacobi</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bernadette_Peters" title="Bernadette Peters">Bernadette Peters</a> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Earl_Jones" title="James Earl Jones">James Earl Jones</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Lithgow" title="John Lithgow">John Lithgow</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pauline_Collins" title="Pauline Collins">Pauline Collins</a> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Morse" title="Robert Morse">Robert Morse</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Stockard_Channing" title="Stockard Channing">Stockard Channing</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Close" title="Glenn Close">Glenn 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(2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Platt" title="Ben Platt">Ben Platt</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Glenda_Jackson" title="Glenda Jackson">Glenda Jackson</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bryan_Cranston" title="Bryan Cranston">Bryan Cranston</a> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Danny_Burstein" title="Danny Burstein">Danny Burstein</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sutton_Foster" title="Sutton Foster">Sutton Foster</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Annaleigh_Ashford" title="Annaleigh Ashford">Annaleigh Ashford</a> (2023)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Paulson" title="Sarah Paulson">Sarah Paulson</a> (2024)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Quayle" title="Anthony Quayle">Anthony Quayle</a> (1975)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ed_Flanders" title="Ed Flanders">Ed Flanders</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Burgess_Meredith" title="Burgess Meredith">Burgess Meredith</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Howard_da_Silva" title="Howard da Silva">Howard da Silva</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Marlon_Brando" title="Marlon Brando">Marlon Brando</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Grizzard" title="George Grizzard">George Grizzard</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Warner_(actor)" title="David Warner (actor)">David Warner</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a 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class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hume_Cronyn" title="Hume Cronyn">Hume Cronyn</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Beau_Bridges" title="Beau Bridges">Beau Bridges</a> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_A._Goorjian" title="Michael A. Goorjian">Michael A. Goorjian</a> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Sutherland" title="Donald Sutherland">Donald Sutherland</a> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Hulce" title="Tom Hulce">Tom Hulce</a> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Beau_Bridges" title="Beau Bridges">Beau Bridges</a> (1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_C._Scott" title="George C. Scott">George C. Scott</a> (1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Peter_O%27Toole" title="Peter O'Toole">Peter O'Toole</a> (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hank_Azaria" title="Hank Azaria">Hank Azaria</a> (2000)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #F9EFAA;;width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Cox_(actor)" title="Brian Cox (actor)">Brian Cox</a> (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Moriarty" title="Michael Moriarty">Michael Moriarty</a> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Gazzara" title="Ben Gazzara">Ben Gazzara</a> (2003)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Wright" title="Jeffrey Wright">Jeffrey Wright</a> (2004)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Newman" title="Paul Newman">Paul Newman</a> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Irons" title="Jeremy Irons">Jeremy Irons</a> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Haden_Church" title="Thomas Haden Church">Thomas Haden Church</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Wilkinson" title="Tom Wilkinson">Tom Wilkinson</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ken_Howard" title="Ken Howard">Ken Howard</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Strathairn" title="David Strathairn">David Strathairn</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Guy_Pearce" title="Guy Pearce">Guy Pearce</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Berenger" title="Tom Berenger">Tom Berenger</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Cromwell" title="James Cromwell">James Cromwell</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Freeman" title="Martin Freeman">Martin Freeman</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Murray" title="Bill Murray">Bill Murray</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sterling_K._Brown" title="Sterling K. Brown">Sterling K. Brown</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Skarsg%C3%A5rd" title="Alexander Skarsgård">Alexander Skarsgård</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Daniels" title="Jeff Daniels">Jeff Daniels</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Whishaw" title="Ben Whishaw">Ben Whishaw</a> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yahya_Abdul-Mateen_II" title="Yahya Abdul-Mateen II">Yahya Abdul-Mateen II</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Evan_Peters" title="Evan Peters">Evan Peters</a> (2021)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Murray_Bartlett" title="Murray Bartlett">Murray Bartlett</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Walter_Hauser" title="Paul Walter Hauser">Paul Walter Hauser</a> (2023)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lamorne_Morris" title="Lamorne Morris">Lamorne Morris</a> 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Banerjee</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ray_McAnally" title="Ray McAnally">Ray McAnally</a> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Derek Jacobi</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hoskins" title="Bob Hoskins">Bob Hoskins</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Day-Lewis" title="Daniel Day-Lewis">Daniel Day-Lewis</a> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Iain_Glen" title="Iain Glen">Iain Glen</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Rickman" title="Alan Rickman">Alan Rickman</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Day-Lewis" title="Daniel Day-Lewis">Daniel Day-Lewis</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Thewlis" title="David Thewlis">David Thewlis</a> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Kingsley" title="Ben Kingsley">Ben 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title="Nicol Williamson">Nicol Williamson</a> (1969)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Bates" title="Alan Bates">Alan Bates</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alec_McCowen" title="Alec McCowen">Alec McCowen</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Wood_(English_actor)" title="John Wood (English actor)">John Wood</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a> (1975)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Albert_Finney" title="Albert Finney">Albert Finney</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Sinden" title="Donald Sinden">Donald Sinden</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span 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Lee Miller">Jonny Lee Miller</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Simon_Russell_Beale" title="Simon Russell Beale">Simon Russell Beale</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Lester" title="Adrian Lester">Adrian Lester</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rory_Kinnear" title="Rory Kinnear">Rory Kinnear</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Hiddleston" title="Tom Hiddleston">Tom Hiddleston</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_McAvoy" title="James McAvoy">James McAvoy</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Fiennes" title="Ralph Fiennes">Ralph Fiennes</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Garfield" title="Andrew Garfield">Andrew Garfield</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Fiennes" title="Ralph Fiennes">Ralph Fiennes</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Scott_(actor)" title="Andrew Scott (actor)">Andrew Scott</a> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_McAvoy" title="James McAvoy">James McAvoy</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Scott_(actor)" title="Andrew Scott (actor)">Andrew Scott</a> (2023)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Laurence_Olivier_Award_for_Best_Actor" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background: #E0E0E0;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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style="background: #E0E0E0;;width:1%">1976–1984 <br />and 1988</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #E0E0E0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier_Award_for_Actor_of_the_Year_in_a_Revival" title="Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival">Revival</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Howard_(actor)" title="Alan Howard (actor)">Alan Howard</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Howard_(actor)" title="Alan Howard (actor)">Alan Howard</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Warren_Mitchell" title="Warren Mitchell">Warren Mitchell</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Pryce" title="Jonathan Pryce">Jonathan Pryce</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Massey_(actor)" title="Daniel Massey (actor)">Daniel Massey</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Moore_(actor)" title="Stephen Moore (actor)">Stephen Moore</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Derek Jacobi</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Cox_(actor)" title="Brian Cox (actor)">Brian Cox</a> (1988)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #E0E0E0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier_Award_for_Actor_of_the_Year_in_a_New_Play" title="Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a New Play">New Play</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Copley" title="Paul Copley">Paul Copley</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Bryant_(actor)" title="Michael Bryant (actor)">Michael Bryant</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Conti" title="Tom Conti">Tom Conti</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Roger_Rees" title="Roger Rees">Roger Rees</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Trevor_Eve" title="Trevor Eve">Trevor Eve</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ian_McDiarmid" title="Ian McDiarmid">Ian McDiarmid</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Shepherd_(actor)" title="Jack Shepherd (actor)">Jack Shepherd</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Cox_(actor)" title="Brian Cox (actor)">Brian Cox</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Haig" title="David Haig">David Haig</a> (1988)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #E0E0E0;;width:1%">1985 onwards <br />(except 1988)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Antony_Sher" title="Antony Sher">Antony Sher</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Albert_Finney" title="Albert Finney">Albert Finney</a> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Gambon" title="Michael Gambon">Michael Gambon</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Ford_Davies" title="Oliver Ford Davies">Oliver Ford Davies</a> (1989/1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Hawthorne" title="Nigel Hawthorne">Nigel Hawthorne</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Stephens" title="Robert Stephens">Robert Stephens</a> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mark_Rylance" title="Mark Rylance">Mark Rylance</a> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Bamber" title="David Bamber">David Bamber</a> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alex_Jennings" title="Alex Jennings">Alex Jennings</a> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Antony_Sher" title="Antony Sher">Antony Sher</a> (1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ian_Holm" title="Ian Holm">Ian Holm</a> (1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Spacey" title="Kevin Spacey">Kevin Spacey</a> (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Goodman" title="Henry Goodman">Henry Goodman</a> (2000)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Conleth_Hill" title="Conleth Hill">Conleth Hill</a> (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Roger_Allam" title="Roger Allam">Roger Allam</a> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Simon_Russell_Beale" title="Simon Russell Beale">Simon Russell Beale</a> (2003)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Kelly" title="Matthew Kelly">Matthew Kelly</a> (2004)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Griffiths" title="Richard Griffiths">Richard Griffiths</a> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Dennehy" title="Brian Dennehy">Brian Dennehy</a> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rufus_Sewell" title="Rufus Sewell">Rufus Sewell</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chiwetel_Ejiofor" title="Chiwetel Ejiofor">Chiwetel Ejiofor</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Derek Jacobi</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mark_Rylance" title="Mark Rylance">Mark Rylance</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Roger_Allam" title="Roger Allam">Roger Allam</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Benedict_Cumberbatch" title="Benedict Cumberbatch">Benedict Cumberbatch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jonny_Lee_Miller" title="Jonny Lee Miller">Jonny Lee Miller</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Luke_Treadaway" title="Luke Treadaway">Luke Treadaway</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rory_Kinnear" title="Rory Kinnear">Rory Kinnear</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mark_Strong" title="Mark Strong">Mark Strong</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Cranham" title="Kenneth Cranham">Kenneth Cranham</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jamie_Parker" title="Jamie Parker">Jamie Parker</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bryan_Cranston" title="Bryan Cranston">Bryan Cranston</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kyle_Soller" title="Kyle Soller">Kyle Soller</a> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Scott_(actor)" title="Andrew Scott (actor)">Andrew Scott</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">No Ceremony (2021)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hiran_Abeysekera" title="Hiran Abeysekera">Hiran Abeysekera</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Mescal" title="Paul Mescal">Paul Mescal</a> (2023)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mark_Gatiss" title="Mark Gatiss">Mark 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Wintour">Charles Wintour</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Littlewood" title="Joan Littlewood">Joan Littlewood</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alec_Guinness" title="Alec Guinness">Alec Guinness</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peggy_Ashcroft" title="Peggy Ashcroft">Peggy Ashcroft</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ninette_de_Valois" title="Ninette de Valois">Ninette de Valois</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_MacMillan" title="Kenneth MacMillan">Kenneth MacMillan</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Wanamaker" title="Sam Wanamaker">Sam Wanamaker</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Pinter" title="Harold Pinter">Harold Pinter</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Harris" title="Margaret Harris">Margaret Harris</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Mirvish" title="Ed Mirvish">Ed Mirvish</a> / <a href="/wiki/David_Mirvish" title="David Mirvish">David Mirvish</a> (1998)</li> 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Stephen Jameson / <a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a> / Sarah Preece / Peter Roberts (2020)</li> <li><s>(2021 Covid-19)</s></li> <li>Lisa Burger / Bob King / Gloria Louis / Susie Sainsbury / <a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Young" title="Sylvia Young">Sylvia Young</a> (2022)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Derek Jacobi</a> / <a href="/wiki/Arlene_Phillips" title="Arlene Phillips">Arlene Phillips</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Tony_Award_for_Best_Leading_Actor_in_a_Play" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" 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Actor in a Play</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #C0C0C0;;width:1%">1947–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ferrer" title="José Ferrer">José Ferrer</a> / <a href="/wiki/Fredric_March" title="Fredric March">Fredric March</a> (1947)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Fonda" title="Henry Fonda">Henry Fonda</a> / <a href="/wiki/Paul_Kelly_(actor)" title="Paul Kelly (actor)">Paul Kelly</a> / <a href="/wiki/Basil_Rathbone" title="Basil Rathbone">Basil Rathbone</a> (1948)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rex_Harrison" title="Rex Harrison">Rex Harrison</a> (1949)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Blackmer" title="Sidney Blackmer">Sidney Blackmer</a> (1950)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Claude_Rains" title="Claude Rains">Claude Rains</a> (1951)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ferrer" title="José Ferrer">José Ferrer</a> (1952)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Ewell" title="Tom Ewell">Tom Ewell</a> (1953)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Wayne" title="David Wayne">David Wayne</a> (1954)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Lunt" title="Alfred Lunt">Alfred Lunt</a> (1955)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Muni" title="Paul Muni">Paul Muni</a> (1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fredric_March" title="Fredric March">Fredric March</a> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Bellamy" title="Ralph Bellamy">Ralph Bellamy</a> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jason_Robards" title="Jason Robards">Jason Robards Jr.</a> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Melvyn_Douglas" title="Melvyn Douglas">Melvyn Douglas</a> (1960)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Zero_Mostel" title="Zero Mostel">Zero Mostel</a> (1961)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Hill_(Canadian_actor)" title="Arthur Hill (Canadian actor)">Arthur Hill</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alec_Guinness" title="Alec Guinness">Alec Guinness</a> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Matthau" title="Walter Matthau">Walter Matthau</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hal_Holbrook" title="Hal Holbrook">Hal Holbrook</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Rogers_(actor)" title="Paul Rogers (actor)">Paul Rogers</a> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Balsam" title="Martin Balsam">Martin Balsam</a> 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