Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek Jacobi is a BAFTA, Tony and three-time Olivier Award winning actor and director.

Throughout his illustrious stage and screen career Jacobi has appeared in many productions for the National Theatre, Old Vic and Chichester Festival Theatre including Three Sisters, As You Like It, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, Love For Love, Black Comedy and Hadrian VII.

Sir Derek Jacobi has garnered critical acclaim over his 60-year career on stage and screen and been the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Olivier Awards for Cyrano de Bergerac and Twelfth Night, and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023.

He was one of the founding members of the National Theatre, enlisted by Laurence Olivier himself, and in 1994 was awarded a knighthood for his services to theatre.

Other notable stage productions include Heartbreak House, King Lear, two productions of Twelfth Night (Olivier Award; Best Actor), The Tempest, Macbeth, Richard III and Richard II, Much Ado About Nothing (Olivier Award; Best Actor), Cyrano De Bergerac (London Critics Circle Theatre Award; Best Actor), Ivanov, Antony and Cleopatra and three productions of Hamlet (also directed).

In 2016, Sir Derek appeared as Mercutio in the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production of Romeo and Juliet at the Garrick Theatre.

Derek’s film credits include Gladiator II, The Martini Shot, Allelujah, A Bird Flew In, Cinderella, Grace of Monaco, The King’s Speech, A Bunch of Amateurs, The Golden Compass, Gosford Park, The Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gladiator, Joan Of Arc: The Virgin Warrior, Hamlet, Aladdin, Henry V, Three Sisters and Othello.

Derek’s TV credits include his BAFTA winning role in I, Claudius, Emmy Awards for The Tenth Man and Frasier, Last Tango in Halifax, Cadfael, The Gathering Storm, Doctor Who, The Master, The Crown, Good Omens, The Sandman, Inside No. 9, Vicious, Titanic, Joe Maddison’s War, Margot, The Old Curiosity Shop, Miss Marple: Murder at the Vicarage, The Jury, The Secret Garden, Cyrano De Bergerac, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hamlet; Prince of Denmark, King Richard The Second, Markheim and The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.