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Derek Jacobi

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Played Alan Turing in Hugh Whitemore's play "Breaking the Code" in both London and New York (both 1986), on UK tour (1992), as well as in the TV adaptation Breaking the Code (1996) (TV).

Played the title role in the Roundabout Theatre's production of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" with Roger Rees, Brian Murray & Laura Linney (Broadway April - June 2000) in his first Broadway performance since 1988's Breaking the Code.

His credits at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre include: Prospero in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" (2002, also West End) and King Philip in Schiller's "Don Carlos" (2004, also West End).

He played a failed television writer named Martin Bannister and an alternative incarnation of the Doctor in the Big Finish "Doctor Who Unbound" audio drama Deadline.

(2003) Narrator for the unabridged audiobook version of "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" from the C.S. Lewis series The Chronicles of Narnia.

Played the father in "A Voyage Round My Father" by John Mortimer - Donamar Warehouse/ Wyndham's Theatre, London (2006).

Appeared in "The Hollow Crown" by John Barton - Australian tour (2002).

Played Humphrey Biddulph in "God Only Knows", a new play by Hugh Whitemore - UK tour (2000).

Played Byron in the "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know" by Jane McCulloch - Ambassador's Theatre, London (1992).

Played the title role in "Becket" - Theatre Royal Haymarket, London (1991).

Played the title role in "Kean" by Jean-Paul Sartre - Old Vic Theatre, London (1990).

Played the title roles in Shakespeare's "Richard II" and "Richard III" in repertoire - Pheonix Theatre, London (1988).

Directed Kenneth Branagh as Shakespeare's "Hamlet" - UK tour (1988).

His Royal Shakespeare Company credits include: the title role in Ibsen's "Peer Gynt", Prospero in "The Tempest", the title role in Rostand's "Cyrano De Bergerac" (filmed as Cyrano de Bergerac (1985) (TV)), Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing" (all 1982), and the title role in "Macbeth" (1993).

Made his New York stage debut as Senya in Erdman's "The Suicide" - National Theatre and Academy (1980).

Played Willy Mossop in "Hobson's Choice" by Harold Brighouse - Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford (1975).

Between 1972-9 he toured with the Prospect Theatre as Buckingham in "Richard III", Sir Andrew Aguecheek in "Twelfth Night", the title role in Chekhov's "Ivanov", and the title role in "Pericles", Cecil Vyse in "A Room with a View" based on the novel by 'EM Forster', the title role in "Hamlet", Octavius in "Anthony and Cleopatra", and Thomas Mendip in "The Lady's Not For Burning" by Christopher Fry.

Played Orestes in "Electra" - Greenwich Theatre, London (1971).

Was a member of the National Theatre Company at its foundation in 1963. His NT credits include: Laertes in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (1963), Mr Worthy in Farquhar "The Recruiting Officer", Cassio in Shakespare's "Othello" (filmed as Othello (1965)), Felipillo in "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" a new play by Peter Schaffer, Simon in "Hayfever" by Noel Coward, Fedri in "Andora" by Max Frisch, Ragnar in Ibsen's "The Master Builder" (1964), Captain de Foenix in Pinero's "Trelawny of the Wells, "Armstrong's Last Goodnight", Tattle in Congreve's "Love for Love" (1965), Tusenbach in Chekhov's "Three Sisters", Touchstone in Shakespeare's "As You Like It", Moliere's "Tartuffe", Morton's "A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion" (1967), Adam in Shaw's "Back to Methuselah", Navarre in Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost", Coventry in Marlowe's "Edward II" (1968), Edward Hotel in "Macrune's Guevara" by John Spurling, Foigard in Farquhar's "The Beaux Stratagem" (1969), Lodovico in Webster's "The White Devil", Gratiano in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", Myshkin in "The Idiot" based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1970), Sir Charles Mountford in Heywood's "A Woman Killed With Kindness" (1971), and Lorenzo in "The Advertisement" by Natalia Ginzburg (1972).

His credits at the Chichester Festival Theatre (where he was artistic director from 1995-) include: Liversedge in "The Workinghouse Donkey", Brother Martin in Shaw's "Saint Joan" (1963), Don John in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" (1965, also London), Brindsley Miller in "Black Comedy" by Peter Schaffer (1966, also West End), Ratikin in Turngenev's "A Month In The Country" (1974), "Playing the Wife" a new play by Ronald Hayman, Rolfe in "Hadrian VII" based on the novel by Frederick Rolf (1995) and the title role in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" (1996).

His credits at Birmingham Rep include: the title role in Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" (1960), Magpie in "Naked Island" based on the book by Russell Braddon, Albert in "Hobson's Choice" by Harold Brighouse, Stanley in "One Way Pendulum" by 'NF Simpson', the King in "A Man For All Seasons" by Robert Bolt, the deputy in "Rashomon" based on the stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Gaston in "Traveler Without Luggage" by Jean Anouilh (1961), Christian in "Saint's Day" by John Whiting, Young Courtlove in Double Deceit", Count Marcellus in "Duel of Angels" by Jean Giraudoux, Alvin in "The Keep" by Gwyn Thomas, St John Hotchkiss in Shaw's "Getting Married", Ferdinand in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" (1962), and Toilus in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" (1963), the title role in "Oedipus Rex", Mr Puff in Sheriden's "The Critic" (1972), Jimmy in "Look Back in Anger" by John Osborne and Goldsmith's "She Stoops To Conquer".

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