Paula Jacobs

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).

Known For

An American Werewolf in London

as Mrs. Kessler

The Remains of the Day

as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook

Midsomer Murders

as Mrs. Bosworth

Jeeves and Wooster

as Maud Wilberforce

Casualty

as Iris Thompson

Hammer House of Horror

as Joyce

The New Statesman

as Labour MP

Dalziel & Pascoe

Birds of a Feather

as Mrs. Belloc

Bergerac

as Mrs. Frith