Paula Jacobs
Known For
Acting
Born
1932-01-01 in Liverpool, England, UK
Died
2021-06-26
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 Known For
Midsomer Murders
as Mrs. Bosworth
Casualty
as Iris Thompson
Bergerac
as Mrs. Frith
Theatre 625
as Victim
Jeeves and Wooster
as Maud Wilberforce
Dalziel & Pascoe
Birds of a Feather
as Mrs. Belloc
The New Statesman
as Labour MP
Shoestring
as Manageress
Albion Market
An American Werewolf in London
as Mrs. Kessler
Hammer House of Horror
as Joyce
The Remains of the Day
as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
May to December
as Doreen
CI5: The New Professionals
Attachments
as Rosa
Mapp & Lucia
as Cook
Scully
as Florrie
Belfry Witches
To the Lighthouse
as Mildred