Steve Jacobs is an Australian actor and film director.

Career

Jacob's debut role was in this television film ''

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'' in 1984. The same year he appeared in feature film '' Silver City''. In 1985, Jacobs appeared in 4 episodes of TV medical drama ''

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'' and two more TV films. The next year he appeared in two miniseries, '' Alice to Nowhere'' and '' The Dirtwater Dynasty'' and feature films ''

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'' (alongside Wendy Hughes) and '' Jilted'' (opposite

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). After a guest role in the rebooted American '' Mission: Impossible'' series in 1988, he appeared in two more miniseries, '' The Magistrate'' and '' Cassidy'' and feature film '' Kokoda Crescent'' (all 1989). Jacobs had early 1990s guest roles in long-running medical series '' G.P.'', anthology miniseries ''

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'' and drama thriller '' Snowy''. He then starred in back-to-back roles in Australian children's science fiction adventure series '' Sky Trackers'' and medical drama '' R.F.D.S.'', a

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spin-off of long-running series ''

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'' – the roles he is perhaps best known for. He had 1990s television guest appearances in '' Blue Murder'', '' Halifax f.p.'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' State Coroner'', '' All Saints'', '' Medivac'', '' Wildside'' and '' Stingers''. He also had roles in several films including ''

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'' (1990), ''Boys in the Island'' (both 1990), '' Rose Against the Odds'' (1991), '' To Have & to Hold'' (1996), ''Heart of Fire'', ''

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'' and ''Reprisal'' (all 1997). Jacobs had further television guest roles in to the 2000s, including ''

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'', '' Fergus McPhail'', ''

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'', '' East West 101'' and '' Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms''. He appeared in the 2000s TV movies ''Ihaka: Blunt Instrument'' and '' BlackJack: Sweet Science'', as well as 2001 comedy feature '' The Man Who Sued God'' (alongside

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). Jacobs directed the movie '' La Spagnola'' (2001), which was written and produced by Anna Maria Monticelli. In 2008 he directed

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in a

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's novel '' Disgrace'', again produced and adapted by Monticelli. It premiered at the

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, where it won the Prize of the International Critics.

Personal life

Jacobs is married to actress and producer Anna Maria Monticelli, with whom he starred in '' Sky Trackers''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobs, Steve 1967 births Living people AACTA Award winners Australian film directors