
Paula Elsa Jacobs (1932 – 26 June 2021) was a British actress whose television and film career spanned four decades.
Born in Liverpool in 1932 into a Jewish family, her father was J.P. Jacobs, whose company supplied all the elastic to Marks & Spencer. Jacobs made her first television appearance in Z-Cars in 1962, going on to play roles in Softly, Softly: Task Force (1972–1975), Shoestring (1979), Hammer House of Horror (1980), Mapp & Lucia (1985), Mrs Biggs in Porterhouse Blue (1987), The New Statesman (1989), Bergerac (1990), Maud Wilberforce in Jeeves and Wooster (1990), Brookside (1992), French and Saunders (1993), Coronation Street (1994), Casualty (1989–1995), Drop the Dead Donkey (1994–1998), Dalziel and Pascoe (2000), Midsomer Murders (2002), Agatha Christie's Poirot (2004) and Doctors (2008).

An American Werewolf in London
1981 · as Mrs. Kessler

The Remains of the Day
1993 · as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook

Crossing the Floor
1996 · as Madam Speaker

Duel of Hearts
1992 · as Landlady

To the Lighthouse
1983 · as Mildred

Wings of Death
1985 · as Mum / Landlady

Birth of the Beatles
1979 · as Mrs Flemming

We Think the World of You
1988 · as Deirdre

Dead Lucky
1988 · as Mrs Gogarty

Can You Hear Me Thinking?
1990 · as Rosemary

She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
1984 · as Doreen