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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


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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).

Most Famous Work

Midsomer Murders
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8

Midsomer Murders

(1997) Mrs. Bosworth
Casualty
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6

Casualty

(1986) Iris Thompson
Hammer House of Horror
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7

Hammer House of Horror

(1980) Joyce
The Remains of the Day
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7

The Remains of the Day

(1993) Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
Birth of the Beatles
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7

Birth of the Beatles

(1979) Mrs Flemming
We Think the World of You
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7

We Think the World of You

(1988) Deirdre
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
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10

Can You Hear Me Thinking?

(1990) Rosemary
Duel of Hearts
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7

Duel of Hearts

(1992) Landlady

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