Sir Derek Jacobi is 83 years old as 2022.
Sir Derek Jacobi celebrates his birthday every October 22. He was born on October 22, 1938, in Leytonstone, London, United Kingdom.
Sir Derek George Jacobi CBE is an English actor. He has appeared in various stage productions of William Shakespeare such as Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet.
He has also performed in Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya and Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac.
Jacobi, an only child, was born on 22 October 1938 in Leytonstone, Essex, England, the son of Daisy Gertrude (née Masters; 1910–1980), a secretary who worked in a drapery store in Leyton High Road, and Alfred George Jacobi (1910–1993), who ran a sweet shop and was a tobacconist in Chingford.
In 2003, he was involved with Scream of the Shalka, a webcast based on the science fiction series Doctor Who. He played the voice of the Doctor’s nemesis the Master alongside Richard E. Grant as the Doctor.
Jacobi starred in Michael Grandage’s production of King Lear (London, 2010), giving what The New Yorker called “one of the finest performances of his distinguished career”. In May 2011, he reprised this role at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
In 2019 he reprised the role of the emperor Claudius in Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans.
In 2021, it was announced Jacobi would be joining the cast of Allelujah, a film adaptation of Allan Bennet’s play of the same name directed by Richard Eyre, which will also star Jennifer Saunders, Bally Gill, Russell Tovey, David Bradley, and Judi Dench.