Paula Jacobs
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).
Acted in
Attachments
2000
as Rosa
CI5: The New Professionals
1999
Belfry Witches
1999
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Mrs. Bosworth
Crossing the Floor
1996
as Madam Speaker
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
Anna Lee
1994
as Receptionist
The Remains of the Day
1993
as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
Duel of Hearts
1992
as Landlady
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
1990
as Rosemary
Jeeves and Wooster
1990
as Maud Wilberforce
Birds of a Feather
1989
as Mrs. Belloc
May to December
1989
as Doreen
We Think the World of You
1988
as Deirdre
Dead Lucky
1988
as Mrs Gogarty
The New Statesman
1987
as Labour MP
Casualty
1986
as Iris Thompson
Wings of Death
1985
as Mum / Landlady
Scully
1984
as Florrie
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
1984
as Doreen
Bergerac
1981
as Mrs. Frith
An American Werewolf in London
1981
as Mrs. Kessler
Hammer House of Horror
1980
as Joyce
Birth of The Beatles
1979
as Mrs Flemming
Shoestring
1979
