Vera Jakob

Acting
London, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography15 Titles

#1EastEnders

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Ada

4.2 / 10
SoapDramaCrime

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

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#2Trial & Retribution

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes as Ivy Green

6.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

Devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect, this vast police procedural follows police detectives in England as they investigate crimes and the trials that come about as a result.

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#3Secret Army

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Madame Victor

7.8 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

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#4The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Movie - 1999, 2h 15m as a woman

6.4 / 10
AdventureDramaAction

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.

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#5The Paradise Club

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Landlady

6.2 / 10
DramaCrime

Focuses on brothers Frank and Danny Kane. Their mother is the matriarch of a South London criminal gang, assisted by Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club following the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.

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#6Widows

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Landlady

7.4 / 10
CrimeDrama

Armed robbers Harry, Terry, and Joe die when the security van that they're robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in London. Their widows–Dolly, Shirley, and Linda–find their husbands' schematics and decide to stage it themselves.

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#7Clayhanger

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Mrs Nixon

6.0 / 10
Drama

Clayhanger is a British television drama based on Arnold Bennett's novel series of the same name, published between 1910 and 1918, dramatised by Douglas Livingstone for ITV. Produced by Associated Television, the 26-episode programme is a coming-of-age story set in 19th century England. Edwin Clayhanger aspires to be an architect but is expected to join his father's printing business. His personal growth, eventual acceptance of the family business, and his romantic entanglement with Hilda Lessways are explored. Clayhanger was ITV's longest-ever drama at the time. While some found the pacing slow, it was nonetheless praised for its faithful adaptation, excellent acting, and atmospheric sets.

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#8Will Shakespeare

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Widow Braxton

10.0 / 10
Drama

A dramatisation of the life of famed playwright William Shakespeare from 1590 to 1607.

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#9Ladies in Charge

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Alice

6.5 / 10
MysteryComedyDrama

Ladies in Charge is a 1986 British television drama, an expansion from a 1985 pilot in the Storyboard anthology programme. Produced by Thames Television for ITV, the six-episode programme stars Carol Royle, Julia Hills, and Julia Swift. After serving as World War I ambulance drivers, three women start a private agency in London to solve problems for clients, blending mystery and drama with a lighthearted tone. They take on various cases, from finding lost items to uncovering secrets, often challenging societal expectations for women of the era.

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#10Scorpion Tales

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Mrs Judd

7.3 / 10
MysteryDrama

Scorpion Tales is a British anthology that aired on ITV in 1978, featuring one-off, hour-long plays with twist endings. Produced by ATV, the programme was similar in format to other thriller anthologies like Thriller and Sapphire & Steel. Each episode presented a self-contained story, often with a sinister or surprising conclusion, and starred actors such as Trevor Howard, David Robb, and Anthony Bate.

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#11An Actor's Life for Me

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes as Mrs Jay

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Robert Neilson has ambitions to play Hamlet but will do most acting work. His fiancée, Sue, and agent, Desmond, gently encourage his aspirations.

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#12Pat and Margaret

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m as Fan

7.7 / 10
DramaComedyTV Movie

Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.

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#13The Life Story of Baal

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Concierge

10.0 / 10

An adaptation of the first play written by Bertolt Brecht, charting the decline and fall of Baal, a young poet who rejects the norms of society and destroys the lives of the people with whom he comes into contact.

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#14Beautiful People

Movie - 1999, 2h 15m as Waitress

6.2 / 10
WarComedyDrama

In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.

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#15King of Fridges

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m as 1st Kettle Customer

7.5 / 10
DramaComedy

A play about an ambitious young manager of a Dixons-style electrical warehouse who gets saddled with a 65-year-old re-trainee on a frenetic bank holiday.

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