Background
Her father was Justice of the Peace Jacobs, whose company supplied all the elastic to Marks & Spencer.
Her father was Justice of the Peace 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: Taskforce (1972-1975), Shoestring (1979), Hammer House of Horror (1980), Mapp & Lucia (1985), Porterhouse Blue (1987), The New Statesman (1989), Bergerac (1990), 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). Her film appearances include Birth of the Beatles (1979), An American Werewolf in London (1981), She"ll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1984), We Think the World of You (1988), Duel of Hearts (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993) and Tea with Mussolini (1999).