Paula Jacobs

Known for ActingBorn 1932-01-01Died 2021-06-26Liverpool, England, UK

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Albion Market

Can You Hear Me Thinking?

Jeeves and Wooster

Belfry Witches

Midsomer Murders

The Remains of the Day

The New Statesman

An American Werewolf in London

Shoestring

Duel of Hearts

Hammer House of Horror

Wings of Death

Theatre 625

CI5: The New Professionals

Crossing the Floor

May to December

Bergerac

Scully

Birth of the Beatles

We Think the World of You

Birds of a Feather

Mapp & Lucia

Casualty

Attachments

She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas

To the Lighthouse

Dead Lucky