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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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