A difficult childhood
Born in 1963 in Liverpool, Jason Isaacs grew up in a traditional Jewish family, depending on the lessons of a Jewish school. His childhood and adolescence continue in London, where he said he had regularly been the victim of anti -Semitism on the part of members of the British National Front. It is this difficult childhood that, he said, prepared him for the many big hard roles he will camp in his career …
Registered at the University of Bristol, the young man takes a passion for the theater, which he practices within the institution. Before taking the courses of the prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama of London, from which he released in 1987.
The beginnings of Isaacs are confined to boards and small roles in English series, as Taggart. In 1998, he nevertheless made his hole in Hollywood, appearing alongside Bruce Willis in Armageddon by Michael Bay. Before playing the bad guys against Mel Gibson in The Patriot by Roland Emmerich. What to subscribe, for a long time, to the roles of villains or bastards. The most emblematic of which is undoubtedly that of Lucius Malefoy (Draco’s father) in the series Harry Potterfrom 2002 to 2011.
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Back on the small screen, Isaacs continues the series (including Rosemary’s Baby or Jackson Brodie, private detectivefrom which he plays the title role, which will earn him a BAFTA), while participating in Stalin’s deathMemorable Historical Comedy by Armando Iannucci. But he still doesn’t really pierce. He then lends his voice to a number of series and animated films, video games …
With eight films already announced, Jason Isaacs is not unemployed. Hopefully his performance of rare intensity as a man on the verge of rupture in The White Lotus will bring new possibilities to this racy and elegant actor …