Paula Jacobs appeared on Coronation Street as Mrs Murdoch, co-proprietor of the Murdoch Guest House where the Websters and Rita Sullivan briefly stayed when they holidayed at Blackpool in July 1994. Her other television credits include roles in Z Cars, Theatre 625, Shoestring, Scully, Mapp & Lucia, Albion Market, Porterhouse Blue, May to December, Bergerac, Brookside, Mr. Wakefield's Crusade, Birds of a Feather, Casualty, Drop the Dead Donkey, Dalziel and Pascoe, Agatha Christie: Poirot and Doctors, while she has also appeared in the films Birth of the Beatles, An American Werewolf in London, She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas, We Think the World of You, The Remains of the Day and Tea with Mussolini.