Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/22/1938
Place of Birth
Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Also Known As
Derek Jacobi
Biography
Known For
Gladiator
as Gracchus
Gladiator II
as Gracchus
Cinderella
as King
Tinsel Town
as Albert
Juliet & Romeo
as The Friar
The Golden Compass
as Magisterial Emissary
Nanny McPhee
as Mr. Wheen
Tomb Raider
as Mr. Yaffe
Murder on the Orient Express
as Edward Henry Masterman
The Day of the Jackal
as Inspector Caron
Basil
as Father Frederick
The Congress
as (voice)
The King's Speech
as Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Strings
as Nezo
Henry V
as Chorus
Underworld: Evolution
as Alexander Corvinus
Hamlet
as King Claudius
Come Away
as Mr. Brown
Stratton
as Ross
The Host
as Dr. Hobson
Career Timeline
2025
2023
2022
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
My Week with Marilyn
as Sir Owen Morshead
Anonymous
as Prologue
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
as Narrator (voice)
The Amazing World of Gumball
as Narrator (voice)
There Be Dragons
as Honorio
Ironclad
as Cornhill
National Theatre Live: King Lear
as King Lear
2010
2009
2008
2007
The Old Curiosity Shop
as Grandfather
The Golden Compass
as Magisterial Emissary
Guantanamero
as Guido
The Riddle
as The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
as President
In the Night Garden
as Narrator (voice)
Anastezsi
as Balzer
The Art of Francis Bacon
as Derek Jacobi
2006
2005
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Colonel Protheroe
Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On
as Mr. Operatski (voice)
Strings
as Nezo
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
The Long Firm
as Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
London
as Tacitus
Cloud Cuckoo Land
as Victor
2003
2002
The Dinosaur Hunters
as Narrator (voice)
Inquisition
as Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
Two Men Went To War
as Maj. Merton
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
as Self
Revengers Tragedy
as The Duke
The Making of Gosford Park
as Self
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
as Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
The Gathering Storm
as Stanley Baldwin
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
The Jury
as George Cording QC
2001
2000
1998
1996
1994
The Secret Garden
as Archibald Craven (voice)
Baseball
as Various (voice)
Baseball
as (voice)
Monk's Hood
as Brother Cadfael
The Leper of St. Giles
as Brother Cadfael
The Sanctuary Sparrow
as Brother Cadfael
One Corpse Too Many
as Brother Cadfael
Cadfael
as Brother Cadfael
David Macaulay: Roman City
as Marcus Fabricius (voice)
Aladdin
as The Magician (voice)