Bio: Jason Isaacs was born in Liverpool. He studied law at Bristol University but fell in love with the theatre and directed, produced and appeared in dozens of productions there, at the National Student Theatre Festival and at the Edinburgh Festival. He graduated in 1985 but then attended the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and began working in 1988.Jason's notable roles include Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, Mr. Darling/Captain Hook in Peter Pan (2003), and many soldiers: Col. William Tavington in Roland Emmerich's The Patriot (2000), Captain Steele in Ridley Scott's Blackhawk Down, Major Briggs in Paul Greengrass's Green Zone, Captain Waggoner in Fury, Captain Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery, Field Marshall Zhukov in Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin and Rear-Admiral Godfrey in John Madden's Operation Mincemeat. He was Hap in the cult series The OA, Maurice in the WW2 film Good (2008) and Jay in the multi-award winning MASS. He has made many TV series in Britain and the US and has won or been nominated for a Golden Globe, International Emmy, BAFTA, Critics Choice, Peabody, Satellite and many other awards.On stage he was Louis Ironson in the original productions of Angels in America parts 1 and 2 for the Royal National Theatre and has performed at the Royal Court, Almeida and West End Theatres.Jason is married to documentary filmmaker Emma Hewitt, who he met at drama school and with whom he has two children.
Tivia: He writes left-handed, but is otherwise right-handed.Speaks Spanish fluently. Besides a brief scene in Friends with Money (2006), his role in The Conspiracy (2008) (original title: 'La conjura de El Escoria') was completely in Spanish.His parents were both from Ashkenazi Jewish families. Their ancestors emigrated from Belarus, Russia, and Poland, to England, settling mostly in Liverpool.Is an avid comic-book fan and possessed an enormous collection of Marvel and DC titles as a child.Has a daughter named Ruby, born August 2005, who was named by her older sister, Lily.Has a daughter named Lily, born on 23 March 2002.Met his wife, Emma Hewitt, at drama school.Harry Potter co-star Gary Oldman is one of his favorite actors.Longtime best friend of writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson.Has a cult following due to the weekly 'Kermode and Mayo's Film Review' on BBC, Radio Five Live, where he is regularly saluted ("Hello to Jason Isaacs!") by his former classmate and film critic Dr Mark Kermode, a practice that the fan base of this show picked up.Emma Hewitt is his common law wife with whom he has lived for 20 years.Ranked 54 on Empire Magazine's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars. (2009)Was set to play Dr. William Birkin in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), but left the project.He sings two songs (albeit briefly) in Peter Pan (2003). (Isaacs was also listed for these songs in the closing credits; however, the songs themselves were omitted from the movie soundtrack. Other (uncredited) movie singing performances were The Last Minute (2001) (two songs), and Sweetwater (2013).On TV (BBC), Isaacs sang in the 2013 Case Histories (2011) episode, Jackson and the Women (2013), and in the BBC Four TV play, The Curse of Steptoe (2008). These were also uncredited.In addition to doubling for Mel Gibson, Girard Swan worked as Isaacs's stand-in and photo double in The Patriot (2000).Shares two roles with Hans Conried. Conried appeared in the Disney animated version of Peter Pan (1953), while Isaacs appeared in the 2003 live action film. Both films followed a tradition encouraged by J.M. Barrie, and followed in most stage productions, that Mr. Darling and Captain Hook be played by the same actor. Accordingly, he and Conried played both parts in their respective films.Pictured as the character Captain Lorca on one of a set of 18 British commemorative postage stamps issued 13 November 2020, celebrating the "Star Trek" television and film franchise. Stamps were issued as 12 individual stamps, honoring captains and crew members; and 6 stamps in a single souvenir sheet, highlighting heroes and villains. All stamps were nondenominated and marked first class (76p on day of issue). Others honored by this set are William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula, Leonard Nimoy, Marina Sirtis, Alexander Siddig, Dominic Keating, Sonequa Martin-Green, Shazad Latif, Simon Pegg, Tom Hardy, Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Alice Eve, and Idris Elba.Good friends with Paul Greengrass.Isaacs has worked with Logan Lerman twice: In The Patriot (2000), where they were Col. William Tavington and William Martin, respectively; and Fury (2014), where Isaacs played Capt. Waggoner and Lerman played Norman Ellison.In Armageddon (1998), Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) sarcastically called Dr. Ronald Quincy (Isaacs) "Mr. Wizard". Four years later, Isaacs actually began portraying a Wizard, Lucius Malfoy (in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)).Has been in at least two movies with the offspring of music legends. In Armageddon (1998), he appeared alongside Liv Tyler (daughter of Aerosmith's Steven Tyler). Lily Collins--daughter of Genesis drummer/soloist Phil Collins--starred in Abduction (2011), in which Isaacs appeared.He has played both Superman and his arch enemy Lex Luthor, voicing Superman in Superman: Red Son (2020 and Lex Luthor in Justice League: Gods And Monsters (2015).Isaacs has done two movies with portrayals of Iosif Stalin: Adrian McLoughlin played Stalin in the dark comedy The Death of Stalin (2017), and William Salyers voiced Stalin in the direct-to-video Superman: Red Son (2020).Has worked with two different men named "Paul Davies": Paul Davies was the Supervising Sound Editor for Isaacs's movie, 'Good (2008)'. Paul Davies was an uncredited Assistant Colourist for both 'Black Hawk Down (2001)' (in which Isaacs portrayed Capt. Mike Steele), and for 2002's 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)'--plus other "Harry Potter" movies--in which Isaacs's character, Lucius Malfoy, was introduced.