caption honorific_prefix years_active birth_name birth_place imagesize honorific_suffix birth_date image article_title name partner occupation alma_mater
jacobi '' at wyndham 's theatre , london -lrb- december 2006 onstage -rrb- . performing '' a voyage round my father sir 1961 -- present derek george jacobi leytonstone , london , england 200px cbe 22 october 1938 derek jacobi.jpg derek jacobi
 derek jacobi richard clifford -lrb- 1979 -- present -rrb- actor/director st. john 's college , university of cambridge
derek jacobi

sir derek george jacobi cbe -lrb- ; born 22 october 1938 -rrb- is an english actor and stage director .
a `` forceful , commanding stage presence '' , jacobi has enjoyed a successful stage career , appearing in such stage productions as `` hamlet '' , `` uncle vanya '' , and `` oedipus the king '' .
he has twice been awarded a laurence olivier award , first for his performance of the eponymous hero in `` cyrano de bergerac '' in 1983 and the second for his malvolio in `` twelfth night '' in 2009 .
he also received a tony award for his performance in `` much ado about nothing '' in 1984 and a primetime emmy award in 1988 for `` the tenth man '' .
his stage work includes playing octavius caesar , edward ii , richard iii and thomas becket .
in addition to being a founder member of the royal national theatre and winning several prestigious theatre awards , jacobi has also enjoyed a successful television career , starring in the critically praised adaptation of robert graves 's `` i , claudius '' -lrb- 1976 -rrb- , for which he won a bafta ; in the titular role in the medieval drama series `` cadfael '' -lrb- 1994-1998 -rrb- , as stanley baldwin in `` the gathering storm '' -lrb- 2002 -rrb- and as alan buttershaw in `` last tango in halifax '' -lrb- 2012-present -rrb- .
though principally a stage actor , jacobi has appeared in a number of films , such as `` the day of the jackal '' -lrb- 1973 -rrb- , `` henry v '' -lrb- 1989 -rrb- , `` dead again '' -lrb- 1991 -rrb- , `` gladiator '' -lrb- 2000 -rrb- , `` gosford park '' -lrb- 2001 -rrb- , `` the riddle '' -lrb- 2007 -rrb- , `` the king 's speech '' -lrb- 2010 -rrb- , `` my week with marilyn '' -lrb- 2011 -rrb- , and `` cinderella '' -lrb- 2015 -rrb- .
he holds a british knighthood and has been appointed a knight first class of the order of the dannebrog .
