Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English (English people) actor born in Liverpool, who is most well known for his performance as the villain Lucius Malfoy (Death Eater#Lucius Malfoy) in the Harry Potter (Harry Potter (film series)) films, the brutal Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot (The Patriot (2000 film)) and as lifelong criminal Michael Caffee in the internationally-broadcast American television (Television in the United States) series Brotherhood (Brotherhood (Showtime)). Though most of his work has been in film and television, it also includes stage performances; most notably, as the ambivalent gay lawyer Louis Ironson in Declan Donnellans 1992 and 1993 Royal National Theatre London premi�res of Parts One (Millennium Approaches) and Two (Perestroika) of Tony Kushners Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and as Ben, one of two hitmen, playing opposite Lee Evans (Lee Evans (comedian)) as Gus, in Harry Burtons 2007 critically-acclaimed 50th-anniversary revival of Nobel Laureate (Nobel Prize in Literature) Harold Pinters 1957 two-hander The Dumb Waiter at Trafalgar Studios.