Derek Jacobi Net Worth is
$200,000

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Preeminent British traditional actor from the 1st post-Olivier generation, Derek Jacobi was knighted in 1994 for his services towards the theatre, and, actually, is only the next to take pleasure from the honor of holding TWO knighthoods, Danish and British (Olivier was the additional). Modest and unassuming in character, Jacobi’s firm put in place theatre history focuses on his fearless screen of his character types’ even more unappealing elements, their great defects, eccentricities and, generally, their primal torment. Jacobi was created in Leytonstone, London, Britain, the only kid of Alfred George Jacobi, a division store supervisor, and Daisy Gertrude (Experts) Jacobi, a secretary. His paternal great-grandfather was German (from Hoxter, Germany). His desire for drama started while quite youthful. He produced his debut at age group six in the neighborhood library episode group creation of “The Prince as well as the Swineherd” where he made an appearance as both title personas. In his teenagers he went to Leyton County SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and eventually joined up with the school’s crisis membership (“The Players of Leyton”). Derek portrayed Hamlet on the British National Youth Theater ahead of receiving his senior high school diploma, and earned a scholarship or grant to the College or university of Cambridge, where he initially studied background before centering completely for the stage. A standout function as Edward II at Cambridge resulted in an invite with the Birmingham Repertory in 1960 pursuing university graduation. He produced an instantaneous impression wherein his Henry VIII (both in 1960) simply happened to capture the eye of Olivier himself, who got him the talented professional under his wing. Derek became among the eight founding people of Olivier’s Country wide Theatre Business and gradually increased in stature with shows in “The Royal Hunt of sunlight,” “Othello” (as Cassio) and in “Hay Fever”, amongst others. He also produced appearances on the Chichester Celebration and the Aged Vic. It had been Olivier who provided Derek his film debut, recreating his stage function of Cassio in Olivier’s acclaimed cinematic edition of Othello (1965). Olivier eventually ensemble Derek in his very own filmed display of Chekhov’s Three Sisters (1970). On Television Derek is at celebrated business playing Don John in Very much Ado About Nothing at all (1967) alongside Maggie Smith and then-husband Robert Stephens; Derek got played the function earlier on the Chichester Celebration in 1965. After eight eventful years on the Country wide Theatre, including such sterling jobs as Touchstone in “As YOU PREFER It”, Jacobi still left the business in 1971 to be able to attract additional mediums. He continuing his dominance on stage as Ivanov, Richard III, Pericles and Orestes (in “Electra”), but his large breakthrough would happen on TV. Getting into his personal with quality support function in Guy of Straw (1972), The Strauss Family members (1972) and specifically the series The Pallisers (1974) where he performed the ineffectual Lord Fawn, Derek’s magnificence was offered front and middle in the epic BBC series I, Claudius (1976). His stammering, weak-minded Emperor Claudius was regarded as a function of genius and received, among additional honors, the BAFTA honor. Although he was accomplished in YOUR DAY from the Jackal (1973) as well as the Odessa File (1974), movies would place a distant third throughout his career. Stage and Television, however, would continue steadily to illustrate his traditional icon position. Derek got his Hamlet on an effective globe tour throughout Britain, Egypt, Sweden, Australia, Japan and China; in a few from the afore-mentioned countries he was the first professional to execute the function in English. Television viewers relished his shows as Richard II (1978) and, obviously Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980). After making his Broadway bow in “The Suicide” in 1980, Derek suffered from an alarming two-year spell of stage fright. He came back, nevertheless, and toured within the Royal Shakespeare Organization (1982-1985) with award-winning outcomes. During this time period he gathered Broadway’s Tony Award for his Benedick in “Very much Ado about Nothing at all”; gained the desired Olivier, Drama Little league and Helen Hayes honours for his Cyrano de Bergerac; and gained equivalent acclaim for his Prospero in “The Tempest” and Peer Gynt. In 1986, he finally produced his Western End debut in “Breaking the Code” that he gained another Helen Hayes trophy; the enjoy was then taken to Broadway. For all of those other 80s and 90s, he laid stage claim to such historical statistics as Lord Byron, Edmund Kean and Thomas Becket. On Television he discovered resounding achievement (and an Emmy nomination) as Adolf Hitler in In the Third Reich (1982), and lastly took house the sought after Emmy contrary Anthony Hopkins in the WWII dilemma The Tenth Guy (1988). He received another Emmy within an improbable style by spoofing his traditional prowess with an bout of “Frasier” (his 1st guest overall performance on American Television), where he performed the unsubtle and resoundingly poor Shakespearean professional Jackson Hedley. Kenneth Branagh was greatly influenced by mentor Jacobi and their own association would include Branagh’s films Henry V (1989), Deceased Again (1991), and Hamlet (1996), the last mentioned playing Claudius to Branagh’s Great Dane. Derek also aimed Branagh in the actor’s Renaissance Theater Company’s creation of “Hamlet”. In the 1990s Derek came back towards the Chichester Celebration, this time around as artistic movie director, and made an excellent displaying in the name part of Uncle Vanya (1996). More heralded function lately include profound portrayals from the anguished titular painter in Like May be the Devil: Research for a Family portrait of Francis Bacon (1998), the part of Gracchus in the favorite, Oscar-winning film Gladiator (2000), and sterling performances in such movies as Two Males Visited War (2002), Bye Bye Blackbird (2005), The Riddle (2007), Endgame (2009), The King’s Speech (2010), Jail Caesar (2012), so that as the Ruler in Cinderella (2015). Carrying on to mesmerize in the stage, he provides turned in outstanding shows in “Uncle Vanya” (2000), Friedrich Schiller’s “Don Carlos” (2005), _A Voyage ‘Circular MY DAD (2006), “Twelfth Evening” (2009) as well as the name function in “Ruler Lear” (2010). Within the English TV series front side, he offers commanded newer interest in the name role of the crusading monk in the secret series Secret!: Cadfael (1994), as Lord Pirrie in Titanic: Bloodstream and Metal (2012), as Alan in Last Tango in Halifax (2012), so that as Stuart Bixby in Vicious (2013). He and his life-time partner of three years, Richard Clifford, filed seeing that domestic companions in Britain in 2006. Clifford, an excellent classical professional and manufacturer in his very own right, has distributed movie period with Jacobi in Small Dorrit (1987), Henry V (1989), and it edition of Cyrano de Bergerac (1985).

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Derek Jacobi
Date Of Birth	October 22, 1938
Height	1.78 m
Profession	Voice Actor, Film director, Theatre Director
Education	St John's College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Parents	Daisy Gertrude Jacobi, Alfred George Jacobi
Partner	Richard Clifford, Richard Clifford
Awards	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, Satellite Award for Best Ensemble – Motion Picture, The Helen Hayes Tribute, sponsored by Jaylee Mead, Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival, John and Wendy Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance, Shakespeare Prize, Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Visiting Production, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor
Nominations	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television, Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play
Movies	Cinderella, Gladiator, The King's Speech, Underworld: Evolution, Hamlet, Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, Dead Again, Gosford Park, Henry V, The Secret of NIMH, Nanny McPhee, My Week with Marilyn, Ironclad, The Golden Compass, The Odessa File, Up at the Villa, Adam Resurrected, Two Men Went to War, The Day of the Jackal, Grace of Monaco, Pinochet in Suburbia, Endgame, The Gathering Storm, The Wyvern Mystery, Effie Gray, Molokai: The Story of Father Damien, A Bunch of Amateurs, Morris: A Life with Bells On, Little Dorrit, Shakespeare Tragedies: Hamlet, The Human Factor, The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, Othello, StringCaesar, Bye Bye Blackbird, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hippie Hippie Shake, Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy, Guantanamero, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Tenth Man, The Riddle, Revengers Tragedy, Three Sisters, Joe Maddison's War, The History of Love, Anonymous, Murder on the Orient Express, The Body, Philby, Burgess and Maclean, Airlock, or How to Say Goodbye in Space
TV Shows	Vicious, The Borgias, In the Night Garden..., Cadfael, The Civil War, I, Claudius, The Pallisers, The Strauss Family, Titanic: Blood and Steel, Scream of the Shalka, Great Performances, Last Tango in Halifax