Derek Jacobi Partner: Meet Richard Clifford

May 20, 2024

Derek Jacobi partner-English actor, Derek George Jacobi was born on October 22nd, 1938 in in Leytonstone, Essex, England.

During the 19th century, his patrilineal great-grandfather immigrated to England from Germany. His ancestry includes a distant Huguenot.

Although coming from a working-class household, Jacobi recalls a joyful upbringing. He attended Leyton County High School for Boys in his adolescence, which is now the Leyton Sixth Form College, and became a vital member of the theater group The Players of Leyton.

He appeared in a highly appreciated version of Hamlet while still in the sixth form, which was presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

At age 18, he was awarded a scholarship to attend the University of Cambridge, where he majored in history and received his degree.

Jacobi played a variety of roles while he was a student at Cambridge, including Hamlet, which was taken on a tour to Switzerland where he met Richard Burton.

Immediately after graduating from Cambridge in 1960, Jacobi received an invitation to join the Birmingham Repertory Theatre as a consequence of his portrayal as Edward II there.

Derek Jacobi career

As one of the original founding members of the National Theatre, Jacobi began his professional acting career with Laurence Olivier.

He has performed in several Shakespearean theater plays, including Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and Hamlet.

In 1983 and 2009, Jacobi won the Laurence Olivier Award for his performances as Malvolio in Twelfth Night and as the titular character in Cyrano de Bergerac. For his performance as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, he also received the 1985 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.

In addition, Jacobi has been in a number of television shows, most notably the BBC series I, Claudius (1976), for which he received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.

He received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1976 for his role in the BBC television series I, Claudius.

He received two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for The Tenth Man (1988), and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Frasier (2001).

He is also known for his roles in the medieval drama series Cadfael (1994–1998), the HBO film The Gathering Storm (2002), the ITV sitcom Vicious (2013-2016), and in BBC’s Last Tango in Halifax (2012–2020).

In the highly regarded Netflix series The Crown’s third season, he played Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor.

Though principally a stage actor, Jacobi has appeared in a number of films, including Othello (1965), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), Hamlet (1996), Gladiator (2000), Nanny McPhee (2005).

Other films include; The Riddle (2007), My Week with Marilyn (2011), Anonymous (2011), Cinderella (2015), and Murder on the Orient Express (2017).

Jacobi has also earned two Screen Actors Guild Awards along with the ensemble cast for Robert Altman’s Gosford Park (2001), and Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech (2010).

Who is Derek Jacobi married to?

Jacobi is married to Richard Clifford. They live in West Hampstead, northwest London.

Who is Richard Clifford?

Richard Clifford is an actor who has been married to Jacobi since 2006.

Source: www.Ghgossip.com

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