Jason Isaacs

Birthday: 6 June 1963, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Height: 180 cm

Jason Isaacs was born in Liverpool, the third of four children of Sheila (née Nathan) and Eric Isaacs. His parents were both from Jewish families (from Eastern Europe). He studied law at Bristol Univ ...Show More

[on playing Harry H. Corbett in The Curse of Steptoe (2008)] This wasn't just a sitcom. It was like Show more [on playing Harry H. Corbett in The Curse of Steptoe (2008)] This wasn't just a sitcom. It was like watching a five-act Ibsen (Henrik Ibsen) play. Corbett was making us laugh, but we were laughing at his pain and the hopelessness of his situation. Then there were the story lines ... politics, class, religion, sex. This wasn't what an early-1960s comedy was supposed to deal with. Everybody knows his Steptoe (Steptoe and Son (1962)) voice, but that was nothing like his real voice. He was actually raised in Wythenshawe. He had that peculiar northern thing of trying to make his accent posher than it was. A bit like Harold, really. So much of his real life mirrored Steptoe and I think Galton (Ray Galton) and Simpson (Alan Simpson) picked up on that. Unfortunately, typecasting was far more prevalent in those days. Harry H. Corbett was, without doubt, the finest actor in the country, but the more successful he was as Steptoe, the less work he was offered. He wanted to walk away, but he couldn't. He was very comfortably trapped. I've got mates who are in exactly the same situation. Starring in hugely successful shows, earning loads of money - but they can't stand their jobs. The country loved Harold Steptoe, but Corbett hated him. Really hated him. Hide

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked wit Show more I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am. I can go on the tube and bus and wander through the streets. So I'm quite happy not to get the girl. Hide

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me. Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

[to the producers of the stage version of "Angels in America" while auditioning for the part of "Lou Show more [to the producers of the stage version of "Angels in America" while auditioning for the part of "Louis"] Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage? Hide

[on the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling] I went off and read the books after the audition and I r Show more [on the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling] I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought where slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack. Hide

Jason Isaacs's FILMOGRAPHY

as Actor (207)

Superman: Red Son

Highlander - Season 4

Fury (2014)

American Dad - Season 8

Avatar: The Legend of Korra - Season 4 [Audio: Eng]

Star Trek: Discovery - Season 3

Star Trek: Discovery - Season 2

American Dad - Season 14

Star Wars Rebels - Season 4

Castlevania - Season 3

The Talk - Season 14

Taggart - Season 5

Entourage - Season 4

Creation Stories

The Boys: Diabolical - Season 1

American Dad - Season 18

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 1

Rio, I Love You

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book 2: Earth [Sub: Eng]

Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob

Agent Game

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book 3: Fire [Sub: Eng]

The End of the Affair

Avatar: The Legend of Korra - Season 3 [Audio: Eng]

Field of Lost Shoes

American Dad - Season 13

Jason Isaacs'S roles

Michael Caffee

Peter Connelly

Lucius Malfoy

Zachary Blaine

Sinestro

Chaz Watley

Michael Carter

Father Richard Smythe

Briggs

Mr. Darling

Ra's al Ghul

Steele

Ronald Quincy

Dan

Admiral Zhao

Fredrick 'Freddy' Lyme

Lex Luthor

Lord Felton

Dr. Hunter Aloysius 'Hap' Percy

Mr. Parker

Kevin Harper

The Inquisitor

D.J.

Michael Britten

Clark Devlin

Col. William Tavington

Colonel Mekum

Colin Ayres

Captain Gabriel Lorca

Siddeley

Captain Gabriel Lorca