He's one of my favorite actors at the moment. I've seen him in "The State Within", in "Case Histories" and recently in "Awake". He is absolutely amazing.
Jason Isaacs was born on 6 June 1963, in Liverpool, Merseyside, to Jewish parents. The third of four sons,Isaacs attended a Jewish school and a cheder twice a week as a young adult. When he was 11, he moved with his family to Northwest London, attending the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, in Elstree, Hertsmere. He describes his childhood as "preparation" for portraying the "unattractive", villainous characters whom he has most often played. National Front members frequently harassed Isaacs and his friends throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
