Jason Isaacs

Jason Isaacs is a British actor who portrayed Captain in the first season of . Isaacs also voiced the character as part of the Discovery-themed Star Trek Online expansion, Rise of Discovery. 
For his role as Lorca, Isaacs won an Empire Award for Best TV Actor and was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actor on a Television Series. 
He is best known for playing Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film franchise.
== Career ==
=== Before Star Trek ===
Isaacs first became known to American movie-going audiences portraying NASA physicist Ronald Quincy in (1998), co-written by J.J. Abrams, with Jeff Austin, Brian Brophy, Jim Fitzpatrick, Anthony Guidera, John Mahon, J. Patrick McCormack, Marshall R. Teague, Peter White, and Lawrence Tierney. Isaacs reteamed with Bruckheimer as Army Ranger operative Mike Steele in (2001, co-starring Eric Bana, Tom Hardy, Glenn Morshower, and Enrique Murciano). Other military films include (1998, with Elizabeth Dennehy) and (2000, co-starring René Auberjonois and Leon Rippy).
Isaacs then co-starred in (2000), with Kevin Tighe. In 2001, Isaacs appeared in with Robert Joy and Frank Langella. In 2002 he co-starred in with Holmes R. Osborne and Christian Slater. That year Isaacs appeared as Charles Beck in Passionada, which co-starred Seymour Cassel. Finally that year was with Frank Gorshin. 
Isaacs joined veteran Colm Meaney in (2004). Isaacs would appear uncredited in (2005, co-starring guest Cary-Hiroyuki. That year Isaacs co-starred in with K Callan. Following this Isaacs appeared in Tennis, Anyone with Debra Wilson. For 2007, Isaacs was seen in the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino's where Isaacs joined James Parks and Tom Towles.
Isaacs is also known for his voiceover work in video games. He was the voice of the villainous Ra's al Ghul in 2010's Batman: Under the Red Hood with Brian George, Bruce Greenwood, Dwight Schultz, and Wade Andrew Williams followed by (2010) and (2014), both times with Patrick Stewart. Isaacs' other work that year included the telefilm Pleading Guilty where he was joined by Mädchen Amick, John Larroquette, and Leland Orser. In addition to Harry Potter, Isaacs joined another franchise lending his voice to (2011, with recurring actor Paul Dooley and Jenifer Lewis).
In 2013, Isaacs co-starred in The Surgeon General joining Clancy Brown. Isaacs was then in opposite Stephen Root, followed by (2014, with Keith Carradine_. That year, Isaacs co-starred in the NBC remake of Rosemary's Baby starring Zoë Saldana in the title role whereas the original co-starred Gail Bonney and Elisha Cook. Isaacs also portrayed the primary antagonist, the Grand Inquisitor, in the first season of Star Wars Rebels, in which Brent Spiner also had a recurring role. Isaacs concluded the year in the World War 2 film Fury with Brad William Henke. In 2015, Isaacs won a role in Stockholm, Pennsylvania with past Trek actors Rosalind Chao and Tom Wright. Next, Isaacs was back in video game voiceover work with Justice League: Gods & Monsters alongside Larry Cedar, Penny Johnson, Bruce Thomas, and Marcelo Tubert. With Alice Eve joining him, Isaacs starred in the title role of the short film Lithgow Saint. 
In 2017 Isaacs played the role of Soviet Marshal in . Zukov had previously been honored by having an vessel named after him on The Next Generation. 
As a performer on series television, Isaacs appeared in in 2004, appearing in the penultimate and final episodes of the fifth season (starring Martin Sheen, with Terry O'Quinn, Ron Canada, Steven Culp, and Natalija Nogulich) and the sixth season premiere. Isaacs also guested on in 2008 with Alan Dale.
Isaacs' first starring role was as Irish-American mobster Micheal Caffee in . Isaacs' character was a fictional analogue of real-life Boston mob figure Whitey Bulger. On that series his mother was played by Fionnula Flanagan. Isaacs also starred in Netflix' from 2016 to 2019, which also featured Alice Krige.
=== After Star Trek ===
On , Isaacs, as Captain Lorca, in collaboration with the dance troupe Diversity, switched on the Blackpool Illuminations, the start of that year's annual festival of lights in Blackpool, UK. This was the first time Star Trek was involved in the highly celebrated switching-on ceremony.
After Star Trek: Discovery, Isaacs starred in (2020, with Frank Welker) and Operation Mincemeat in 2020, as well as (with Shazad Latif and Simon Pegg) in 2019 and Castlevania (with Tony Amendola) in 2020.
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