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Aug 25, 2015 · Derek was the only child of Alfred Jacobi and Daisy Masters, a secretary, and had an idyllic childhood. When he was just four years old, his parents took him to a pantomime performance of Cinderella at the London Palladium where Jacobi was one of several young audience members selected to go up on stage.
Derek Jacobi. Sir Derek George Jacobi CBE (born 22 October 1938) is a British actor . Jacobi was born in Leytonstone, London. He graduated from St John's College, Cambridge with a Master of Arts. Jacobi is openly gay and lives in Primrose Hill, London with his civil partner. [1]
I, Claudius (stylized as I·CLAVDIVS) is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves' 1934 novel I, Claudius and its 1935 sequel Claudius the God.Written by Jack Pulman, it stars Derek Jacobi as Claudius, with Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker, Margaret Tyzack, John Hurt, Patricia Quinn, Ian Ogilvy, Kevin McNally, Patrick Stewart and John Rhys-Davies.
Derek Jacobi. Actor: Gladiator. Preeminent British classical actor of the first post-Olivier generation, Derek Jacobi was knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre, and, in fact, is only the second to enjoy the honor of holding TWO knighthoods, Danish and English (Olivier was the other).
Feb 20, 2021 · Derek Jacobi has opened up about the incredible moment he came out as gay to his mother decades ago. Jacobi, 82, told The Telegraph that he knew he was gay from an early age, and he eventually worked up the courage to tell his mother that he was attracted to men while he was a student in Cambridge. His acting career began during his time in ...
A young Derek Jacobi with his parents 1940s Jacobi, an only child, was born in Leytonstone, October 28th 1938,the son of Daisy Gertrude (née Masters), a secretary who worked in a drapery store in...
On television, in addition to his celebrated work in I, Claudius, Jacobi has also earned praise for his roles in a number of other productions. In 1989, he won an Emmy for his performance in the 1988 adaptation of Graham Greene's The Tenth Man. In 1994 he began a successful run as a mystery-solving monk in the TV series Cadfael, a program that ...
