Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
19 Oct, 1982 (42 years old)

Gillian Jacobs

Biography

Gillian Jacobs (born October 19, 1982) is an American film, theatre and television actress, best known for her role as Britta Perry on the NBC comedy series Community. Jacobs was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Martina Magenau Jacobs, was a Carnegie Mellon University director of alumni relations at the Heinz College. Her father, William F. Jacobs Jr., was an investment banker.She was raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon. She is of French, German, Irish, and Scottish descent. Her family owned the Jackson Koehler Eagle Brewery, established in 1847 in Erie, Pennsylvania, where her grandfather, John Martin Magenau Jr., served as President and CEO until its closure in 1978. Jacobs began studying acting at the age of eight, and attended acting classes on Saturdays at the Pittsburgh Playhouse while growing up.She performed with the Pittsburgh Public Theater, where she was a perennial contender in the Public's Shakespeare Monologue Contest, leading her to be cast as Titania in its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After graduating from Mt. Lebanon High School in 2000, Jacobs moved to New York City, New York to attend the Juilliard School, where she was a member of the Drama Division's Group 33. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2004.

Known For

Transatlantic
HD
2023

Transatlantic

Drama
The Seven Faces of Jane
HD
93 min 2023

The Seven Faces of Jane

Drama
Aquaman: King of Atlantis
HD
2021

Aquaman: King of Atlantis

Animation
Come Play
HD
96 min 2020

Come Play

Horror
I Used to Go Here
HD
87 min 2020

I Used to Go Here

Comedy
Magic Camp
HD
100 min 2020

Magic Camp

Family

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