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Paula Jacobs

Paula Jacobs

Birthday: 1932-01-01 | Place of Birth: Liverpool, 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).

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1993
The Remains of the Day

as    Mrs. Mortimer, the cook

1990
Can You Hear Me Thinking?

as    Rosemary

1988
We Think the World of You

as    Deirdre

1988
Dead Lucky

as    Mrs Gogarty

1985
Wings of Death

as    Mum / Landlady

1984