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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

Birth of The Beatles
as Mrs Flemming

Duel of Hearts
as Landlady

Dead Lucky
as Mrs Gogarty

We Think the World of You
as Deirdre

She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
as Doreen

Can You Hear Me Thinking?
as Rosemary

Crossing the Floor
as Madam Speaker

Wings of Death
as Mum / Landlady