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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Liverpool, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 7
TV Involvements: 3
Most Famous Work
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).
Most Famous Work
Midsomer Murders
(1997) Mrs. BosworthCasualty
(1986) Iris ThompsonHammer House of Horror
(1980) JoyceThe Remains of the Day
(1993) Mrs. Mortimer, the cookBirth of the Beatles
(1979) Mrs FlemmingWe Think the World of You
(1988) DeirdreCan You Hear Me Thinking?
(1990) RosemaryDuel of Hearts
(1992) LandladyActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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1999 | N/A | |
N/A | ||
1997 | Mrs. Bosworth | |
1996 | Madam Speaker | |
N/A | ||
1994 | N/A | |
1993 | Mrs. Mortimer, the cook | |
1992 | Landlady | |
1990 | Rosemary | |
Maud Wilberforce | ||
1989 | Mrs. Belloc | |
Doreen | ||
1988 | Deirdre | |
Mrs Gogarty | ||
1987 | Labour MP | |
1986 | Iris Thompson | |
1985 | Mum / Landlady | |
1984 | Florrie | |
Doreen | ||
1981 | Mrs. Kessler | |
1980 | Joyce | |
1979 | Mrs Flemming | |
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