Martyn Jacobs

Martyn Jacobs appeared in Coronation Street in October 1974 as a Police Constable who investigated the theft of jackets from the Mark Brittain Warehouse.

Originally from New Zealand he trained at the Webber Douglas Academy in London and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for five years appearing in Shakespeare including Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, A Winter's Tale and A Midsummer Nights Dream and premiering several new plays at "The Other Place" and Barbican theatres. Since the early 1980s, he has been credited under the alternative spelling of "Martin Jacobs".

His other television roles include Barlow, The Pallisers, Emmerdale Farm, Target, Law & Order, Enemy at the Door, Spearhead, The Gentle Touch, Soldier Soldier and The Leaving of Liverpool.

He moved to Australia in 1995 and has since appeared in State Coroner, A Difficult Woman, Eugenie Sandler P.I., Stingers, Dirt Game and Deadline Gallipoli.

Film roles include White Hunter Black Heart and The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce.