Jason Isaacs was born on 6 June 1963 and is an English actor.
37 Facts About Jason Isaacs
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Jason Isaacs was born to Jewish parents in Liverpool on 6 June 1963.
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Jason Isaacs has two older brothers and one younger brother.
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Jason Isaacs spent his earliest childhood years in the Liverpool suburb of Childwall, in an "insular and closely knit" Jewish community co-founded by his Eastern European Jewish great-grandparents.
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Jason Isaacs has stated that being Jewish played a big role in his childhood, as he attended youth club in the local synagogue of King David High School in Liverpool's Wavertree district, as well as a cheder twice a week as a young adult.
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Jason Isaacs describes the bullying and intolerance he observed during his childhood as "preparation" for portraying the "unattractive" villains he has most often played.
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Jason Isaacs was initially known as a television actor in the United Kingdom, with starring roles in the ITV drama Capital City and the BBC drama Civvies and guest roles in series such as Taggart, Inspector Morse, and Highlander: The Series.
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Jason Isaacs played Michael Ryan in ITV's adaptation of Martina Cole's novel Dangerous Lady, directed by Jack Woods and produced by Lavinia Warner in 1995.
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Jason Isaacs played the charismatic honourable priest opposite Kirstie Alley in the miniseries The Last Don.
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In 2000, Jason Isaacs starred in the historical epic film The Patriot, starring opposite Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger and playing a sadistic British cavalry officer, Colonel William Tavington.
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Jason Isaacs has appeared in many other films, most notably as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter series of films.
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Jason Isaacs played the leading role of Sir Mark Brydon, the British Ambassador to the United States, in the BBC Four miniseries The State Within, for which he was nominated for the Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television for the 65th Golden Globe Awards.
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Between 2 February and 24 March 2007, Jason Isaacs played Ben, opposite Lee Evans, in the critically acclaimed 50th-anniversary production of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, at Trafalgar Studios, in London, his first theatre performance since appearing in The Force of Change.
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Jason Isaacs played Major Briggs, an American military officer, opposite Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear, in Paul Greengrass's thriller Green Zone, a fictionalised drama set in Iraq after the defeat of Saddam Hussein based on the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, for which production began in Morocco, in January 2008.
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Jason Isaacs appeared in one episode of the TV show Entourage in the autumn of 2008 as Fredrick Line.
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Jason Isaacs provided the voice of Ra's al Ghul in the DC animated film, Batman: Under the Red Hood, and the voice of Sinestro in the DC animated film Green Lantern: Emerald Knights.
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Jason Isaacs starred as Detective Michael Britten in the NBC police procedural fantasy drama series Awake, which premiered on 1 March 2012, and ended in May 2012.
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In 2015, Jason Isaacs took the lead role in the USA Network action adventure drama series Dig.
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Jason Isaacs plays an FBI agent stationed in Jerusalem who uncovers a 2,000-year-old conspiracy while investigating an archaeologist's murder.
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Jason Isaacs made his first appearance as Lorca on 1 October 2017 in the third episode, "Context Is for Kings".
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Jason Isaacs starred alongside Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough, and Michael Palin.
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The film was a controversial yet critical success and Jason Isaacs's performance earned him critical praise.
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Jason Isaacs played the role of Dan in the 2018 psychological thriller, Look Away, starring Mira Sorvino and India Eisley.
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Jason Isaacs played the roles of Vasili in the action thriller Hotel Mumbai and Mark Asprey in the mystery thriller London Fields respectively.
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In November 2019, it was announced that Jason Isaacs will appear beside Jim Broadbent in the film The Dead Spit of Kelly.
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In March 2020, Jason Isaacs played in the lead role of Dr Rob "Griff" Griffith in the CBS drama pilot Good Sam, which was later picked up to series in 2021 for a mid-season premiere on 5 January 2022.
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In 2021, Jason Isaacs played Carl in Dr Bird's Advice for Sad Poets, Admiral John Henry Godfrey in Operation Mincemeat, Jay Perry in the drama film Mass, Ralph in the forthcoming biographical film Creation Stories and John in the short film Cera.
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Jason Isaacs moved in with his girlfriend, BBC documentary filmmaker Emma Hewitt, in 1987.
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Jason Isaacs has described himself as "profoundly Jewish but not in a religious way".
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Jason Isaacs does not keep kosher and is an atheist.
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Jason Isaacs has spoken of travelling unrecognised to film premieres on the London Underground, but said that "as soon as [he] get[s] on the red carpet they start screaming and screaming".
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Jason Isaacs is involved with a number of charities and is a patron of the Scottish veterans charity Bravehound.
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In British politics, Jason Isaacs has long supported the Labour Party and has said that he will never support the Conservative Party.
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Jason Isaacs called Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's handling of antisemitic allegations about the Labour Party "appalling".
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Jason Isaacs traced his experience back to being 12 years old, when a bartender gave him and his friends a bottle of Southern Comfort, after which he "woke up with a splitting headache, stinking of puke with a huge scab and the memory of having utterly shamed [himself]".
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Jason Isaacs subsequently "chased the sheer ecstatic joy [he] felt that night for another 20 years with increasingly dire consequences".
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Jason Isaacs eventually realised he needed help, but asked fans on Twitter not to congratulate him on his sobriety as "pride is the worst part".