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Sir Derek Jacobi is an English actor, best known to TV audiences for the title role in ''[[I Claudius (TV)|I, Claudius]]''. Other notable screen roles include the title role in ''[[Cadfael (TV series)|Cadfael]]'', Sen. Gracchus in ''[[Gladiator (Filmfilm)|Gladiator]]'', Alan Turing in ''Breaking the Code'', Madson in ''[[Dead Again]]'', and the narrator of ''In the Night Garden''. He voiced the Master in the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' animated special ''Scream of the Shalka'' before guest-starring as the same character in the series proper in the episode "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S3 S29/E11 Utopia|Utopia]]". He also appeared in an episode of ''[[Frasier (TV)|Frasier]]'' as a thespian who, when Niles and Frasier were children, introduced them to the wonder of the theatre. When they met him again as adults and helped him get his own one-man show, [[Casting Gag|he wasn't as good as they remembered.]] Many of the younger readers will know Derek Jacobi as Nicodemus from ''[[The Secret of NIMH (Animation)|The Secret of NIMH]]''.

He also has a distinguished stage career, having got his big break in [[Laurence Olivier]]'s National Theatre company, including [[Shakespearian Actors|lots of Shakespeare]]; he has played [[Hamlet (Theatre)|Hamlet]] over 400 times on stage, not to mention his performance in the BBC's Complete Television Shakespeare. (He was also in [[Kenneth Branagh]]'s film version of ''Hamlet'', as Hamlet's villainous uncle -- another Claudius -- in addition to his role as Chorus in Branagh's ''[[Henry V (Theatre)|Henry V]]''.)

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