Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi (b. 1938) is a British actor and stage director who played Daedalus in The StoryTeller: Greek Myths. Jacobi starred in the title role of the Masterpiece Theater series "I Claudius" (later spoofed on "Monsterpiece Theater"), and his film credits include The Day of the Jackal, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Gladiator, Gosford Park, and Underworld: Evolution. Jacobi was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1994, and is only the second actor, after Laurence Oliver, to hold a knighthood from both England and Denmark.