Paula Jacobs

Paula Jacobs

1932-01-01 – 2021-06-26 (age 89) Liverpool, England, UK
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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).

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Known For

An American Werewolf in London
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day

1993

as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook

We Think the World of You
Birth of the Beatles
Birth of the Beatles

1979

as Mrs Flemming

Crossing the Floor
Crossing the Floor

1996

as Madam Speaker

Wings of Death
Wings of Death

1985

as Mum / Landlady

To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse

1983

as Mildred

Dead Lucky
Dead Lucky

1988

as Mrs Gogarty

Duel of Hearts
Duel of Hearts

1992

as Landlady

She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
Can You Hear Me Thinking?