Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 01, 1932
Died
Jun 26, 2021
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England, UK
Credits
27 titles
Paula Jacobs
Biography
Paula Elsa Jacobs (1932 – 26 June 2021) was a British actress whose television and film career spanned four decades. Born in Liverpool in 1932 into a Jewish family, her father was J.P. Jacobs, whose company supplied all the elastic to Marks & Spencer. Jacobs made her first television appearance in Z-Cars in 1962, going on to play roles in Softly, Softly: Task Force (1972–1975), Shoestring (1979), Hammer House of Horror (1980), Mapp & Lucia (1985), Mrs Biggs in Porterhouse Blue (1987), The New Statesman (1989), Bergerac (1990), Maud Wilberforce in Jeeves and Wooster (1990), Brookside (1992), French and Saunders (1993), Coronation Street (1994), Casualty (1989–1995), Drop the Dead Donkey (1994–1998), Dalziel and Pascoe (2000), Midsomer Murders (2002), Agatha Christie's Poirot (2004) and Doctors (2008).
Known For
Filmography
Attachments
Rosa
CI5: The New Professionals
Belfry Witches
Midsomer Murders
Mrs. Bosworth
Crossing the Floor
Madam Speaker
The Remains of the Day
Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
Duel of Hearts
Landlady
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
Rosemary
Jeeves and Wooster
Maud Wilberforce
Birds of a Feather
Mrs. Belloc
May to December
Doreen
We Think the World of You
Deirdre
Dead Lucky
Mrs Gogarty
The New Statesman
Labour MP
Casualty
Iris Thompson
Wings of Death
Mum / Landlady
Albion Market
Mapp & Lucia
Cook
Scully
Florrie
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
Doreen
To the Lighthouse
Mildred
Bergerac
Mrs. Frith
An American Werewolf in London
Mrs. Kessler
Hammer House of Horror
Joyce
Birth of the Beatles
Mrs Flemming
Shoestring
Manageress
Theatre 625
Victim