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).
11 movies · 16 shows
Crossing the Floor
1996·6.8
The Remains of the Day
1993·7.4
Duel of Hearts
1992·7.0
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
1990·8.5
We Think the World of You
1988·6.4
Dead Lucky
1988·4.0
Wings of Death
1985·7.0
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
1984·5.2
To the Lighthouse
1983·5.2
An American Werewolf in London
1981·7.4
Birth of the Beatles
1979·6.5