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7	->''"I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination."''
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9	Sir Derek George Jacobi (born 22 October 1938 in Leytonstone, England) is an English actor, best known to for his extensive theatre work, the title roles in ''Series/IClaudius'' and ''Series/{{Cadfael}}'', Sen. Gracchus in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', Madsen in ''Film/DeadAgain'', Stuart Bixby in ''Series/{{Vicious}}'' and Professor Yana/The Master in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
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11	He voiced the Master in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' animated special ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'' before guest-starring as the same character, though in a different incarnation, in the TV series proper in the episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia "Utopia"]], a role he has since reprised in ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' since 2017. The fact that he only played the Master proper for a total of about three minutes was much mourned by the fans, as he was generally agreed to be excellent. He additionally played a version of the Doctor in the ''Big Finish Doctor Who'' audio episode "Deadline", making him (along with Creator/MarkGatiss) one of two actors in this world to have played both characters, and the only actor to have done so in official ''Doctor Who'' media.
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13	He appeared in an episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' as a thespian who, when Niles and Frasier were children, introduced them to the wonder of the theatre. When they met him again as adults and helped him get his own one-man show, [[CastingGag he wasn't as good as they remembered.]] Many of the younger readers will know Derek Jacobi as Nicodemus from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'', or from his guest appearance as Daedalus in ''[[Series/{{TheStoryteller}} The [=StoryTeller=]: Greek Myths]]''. More recently, he appeared as the Archbishop of Canterbury in ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' and Cardinal Orsini in ''Series/TheBorgias'', promising some wonderful acting alongside Creator/JeremyIrons... until he was [[DeadStarWalking poisoned in the very first episode.]] He has starred with Creator/IanMcKellen in a series called ''Series/{{Vicious}}'', a gay DomCom about [[GrowOldWithMe a long-partnered male couple]].[[note]]Somewhat amusingly, Jacobi and [=McKellen=] were a year apart at Cambridge, and as it turned out, each had what he thought was an unrequited crush on the other.[[/note]] He was the narrator for the ChristmasEpisode parody "The Lie" and the VignetteEpisode "The Night" on the Cartoon Network show ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''.[[note]]which is considered a British show, as it was created by Ben Bocquelet, who works for the UK division of Cartoon Network[[/note]] He also did voiceover work for most of the Creator/{{PBS}} adaptations of Creator/DavidMacaulay's architectural books beginning with ''WesternAnimation/{{Cathedral\|Documentary}}''.
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15	He also has a distinguished stage career, having got his big break in Creator/LaurenceOlivier's National Theatre company, including [[ShakespearianActors lots of Shakespeare]]; he has played Theatre/{{Hamlet}} over 400 times on stage, not to mention his performance in the BBC's Complete Television Shakespeare. (He was also in Creator/KennethBranagh's film version of ''Hamlet'', as Hamlet's villainous uncle -- another Claudius -- in addition to his role as Chorus in Branagh's ''Henry V''.) He played a very similar role as Chorus in ''Film/Anonymous2011'', appearing in modern times in a modern theater to introduce the film. While it may seem odd for so prominent a Shakespearean to appear in an anti-Shakespearean film, Jacobi is actually a prominent anti-Stratfordian.
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17	He is married to fellow actor Richard Clifford, who is another to appear in many of Creator/KennethBranagh's Shakespeare films, though curiously the two never appeared together.
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19	He was knighted for Services to Drama in 1994.
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21	!!Derek Jacobi on TV Tropes:
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23	* ''Theatre/{{Black Comedy\|1965}}'' (1965)
24	* ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' (1967 TV Movie)
25	* ''Theatre/ThreeSisters'' (1970 film)
26	* ''Series/TheRivalsOfSherlockHolmes'' (1973 TV series)
27	* ''Literature/TheDayOfTheJackal'' (1973)
28	* ''Series/IClaudius'' (1976)
29	* ''Theatre/RichardII'' (1977 TV Movie)
30	* ''Film/TheMedusaTouch'' (1978)
31	* ''Film/TheHumanFactor'' (1979)
32	* ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' (1980 TV Movie)
33	* ''Film/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|1982}}'' (1982)
34	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNimh'' (1982)
35	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cathedral\|Documentary}}'' (1986)
36	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pyramid\|Documentary}}'' (1988)
37	* ''Film/LittleDorrit'' (1988)
38	* ''Film/{{Henry V\|1989}}'' (1989)
39	* ''Series/TheCivilWar'' (1990)
40	* ''Film/DeadAgain'' (1991)
41	* ''Series/{{Cadfael}}'' (1994-98)
42	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Achilles}}'' (1995, narrator)
43	* ''Film/LoveIsTheDevil'' (1998)
44	* ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' (2000)
45	* ''Film/GosfordPark'' (2001)
46	* ''Series/TheJury'' (2002)
47	* ''Film/TheGatheringStorm'' (2002) as UsefulNotes/StanleyBaldwin
48	* ''Film/{{Underworld\|2003}}'' (2003)
49	* ''Series/DoctorWho'' (2003-2007)
50	** "WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka" (2003)
51	** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia Utopia]]" (2007)
52	* ''Film/{{Anonymous\|2011}}'' (2011)
53	* ''Film/{{Ironclad}}'' (2011)
54	* ''Series/LastTangoInHalifax'' (2012-2016)
55	* ''Series/{{Vicious}}'' (2013)
56	* ''Film/{{Cinderella\|2015}}'' (2015)
57	* ''Film/AChristmasCarolGoesWrong'' (2017)
58	* ''Film/{{Murder on the Orient Express\|2017}}'' (2017)
59	* ''Series/InsideNo9'': [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/InsideNo9S3E1TheDevilOfChristmas "The Devil Of Christmas"]] as [[TheVoice Dennis Fulcher]] (2016) and [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/InsideNo9S6E5HowDoYouPlead "How Do You Plead?"]] as Webster (2021)
60	* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' (2017-present)
61	* ''Series/{{Les Miserables\|2018}}'' (2018-2019)
62	* ''Film/{{Tolkien}}'' (2019)
63	* ''Series/{{The Sandman\|2022}}'' (2022) as Erasmus Fry

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