Derek Jacobi

Who is Derek Jacobi

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Distinguished actor and director who has won several awards for his theatre work, which includes Hamlet, Uncle Yanya, and Oedipus the King. In 1984, he won a Tony Award for his role in Much Ado About Nothing. In 2015, he appeared as the king in Cinderella.

He was a dedicated member of The Players of Leyton drama club.

He became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1985.

He began a civil partnership with Richard Clifford in March 2006.

He was in the 2000 movie Gladiator with Russell Crowe.

Inspirational Quotes by Derek Jacobi

"I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it."

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"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."

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"It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night."

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"He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age."

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"He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like."

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