Jason Isaacs

Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is a British actor born in Liverpool, England. Raised in Liverpool and later in London, he fell accidentally into acting during his first year at university, and went on to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Initially known as a TV actor in the UK, his biggest international film break was being selected to portray the villain, Colonel William Tavington, opposite Mel Gibson in the Revolutionary War epic The Patriot (2000). Other notable roles include Lucius Malfoy, the influential henchman of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter (2002 – present) series of films, Captain Hook/Mr. Darling in P. J. Hogan's adaptation of Peter Pan (2003), the voice of Admiral Zhao in the animated Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005), and Michael Caffee in the TV series Brotherhood (2006 – present). Isaacs played the leading role of Sir Mark Brydon, the British Ambassador to the USA, in the UK mini-series The State Within (2006), for which he was nominated for the award of Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television in the 65th Golden Globe Awards.

Isaacs has performed on the stage in the UK on numerous occasions. He appeared in the Royal National Theatre's 1993 staging of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels In America as Louis Ironson, and more recently in Harold Pinter's play The Dumb Waiter in 2007 as Ben. He has two daughters with documentary filmmaker Emma Hewitt.

Personal Life
Isaacs and his partner, BBC documentary filmmaker Emma Hewitt, have two daughters: Lily (born 23 March 2002) and Ruby (26 August 2005). Isaacs and Hewitt are not married, but call each other husband and wife as "otherwise people get rather peculiar. It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child." Isaacs has proposed to Hewitt and she has accepted, but each time they think about arranging a wedding he gets involved in another project. Isaacs has quipped that he and Hewitt will probably get married when Lily comes back from school and says: "You two have to get married, you're really embarrassing me." Isaacs is a supporter of Liverpool Football Club.