Jacobi starred as Lord Pirrie on the TV mini-series Titanic: Blood and Steel in 2012. From 2013 to 2016 he starred as Stuart Bixby on the television series Vicious. Jacobi began starring as Alan on the TV series Last Tango in Halifax in 2012. He has appeared in several films including Othello, Little Dorrit, Dead Again, Hamlet, Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis bacon, and Gladiator. He won several awards including a Screen Actors Guild Award for starring in the film Gosford Park and won another SAG Award for The King’s Speech. Derek Jacobi also won Primetime Emmy Awards for The Tenth Man and Frasier.