Gillian Jacobs

Jacobs worked across actor, stage actor, film actor, voice actor and film director. This article rests on 1 published texts and 1 issued recordings drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Name — Gillian Jacobs • Birth Name — Gillian MacLaren Jacobs • Born — 19 October 1982 • Birthplace — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. • Occupation — * Actress • Education — Juilliard School (BFA) • Partner — * Christopher Storer • Years Active — 2005–present

Gillian MacLaren Jacobs was born in Pittsburgh on October 19, 1982, the only child of college administrator Martina Magenau and investment banker William Francis Jacobs III, son of William Francis Jacobs Jr. and wife Mary Margaret Haskins. Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and she was raised by her mother in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Her maternal family owned a brewery, Erie Brewing Company in Erie, Pennsylvania, where her grandfather John Martin Magenau Jr., married to her grandmother Carol Marie Spiller, was president and CEO until it closed in 1978. Jacobs was enrolled in her first acting course at age eight and attended weekend acting classes 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, she moved to New York City to attend the Juilliard School, where she graduated with a BFA in 2004.

• Illustration — Jacobs in July 2013 • Illustration — Jacobs and Melanie Lynskey discussing The Big Ask (at the time called Teddy Bears) in 2013 Jacobs starred in the television series The Book of Daniel. Although she played Kim in the pilot of Traveler, the role was given to Pascale Hutton when ABC acquired the series; the series was canceled after eight episodes. Jacobs subsequently made guest appearances on Fringe and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In 2006, she starred in an Off-Off-Broadway production of Christopher Denham's cagelove. While overall critical reaction to the play was negative, Jacobs earned praise in several reviews. The New York Times advised readers to "remember the name of Gillian Jacobs, a stunning Juilliard graduate who has the glow of a star in the making". Jacobs has appeared in theatrical productions, such as The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero (2007), A Feminine Ending (2007), and The Little Flower of East Orange (2008). In March 2009, she joined the cast of the NBC single-camera comedy series Community as Britta Perry, a high school dropout who aspires to become a psychologist. Her film work includes Blackbird (2007), Choke (2008), Gardens of the Night (2008), The Box (2009), Revenge for Jolly! (2012), Bad Milo! (2013), Walk of Shame (2014), The Lookalike (2014), Life Partners (2014), Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015), Visions (2015), Don't Think Twice (2016), and Brother Nature (2016). She voiced Sta'abi in the Nickelodeon animated series Monsters vs. Aliens and Atom Eve in the Amazon Prime animated series Invincible. Community was canceled by NBC on May 9, 2014, and later that month, it was reported that Jacobs had landed a recurring role as Mimi-Rose Howard in the fourth season of the HBO series Girls. In June 2014, Yahoo! Screen picked up Community for a sixth season. It was announced on September 16, 2014, that Jacobs was set to star as Mickey in the Netflix original comedy series Love. Jacobs directed the 2015 documentary short The Queen of Code about computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper. In 2017, Jacobs co-starred in Janicza Bravo's first full length feature, Lemon, which debuted at Sundance Film Festival. In 2018, she directed Curated, a narrative film short, as a part of a series produced by TNT and Refinery29. In 2020, Jacobs starred in the comedy-drama film I Used to Go Here. She directed the episode "Higher, Further, Faster" for the documentary series Marvel's 616. In February 2021, she and co-host Diona Reasonover premiered a STEM-focused podcast, Periodic Talks, on Stitcher Radio. In July 2021, she had a supporting role in the Fear Street horror film trilogy on Netflix as Christine "Ziggy" Berman. Since 2023, she has guest starred in eight episodes of the television series The Bear, playing Tiffany Jerimovich. In May 2026, Hulu released Gary, a standalone special episode of The Bear streaming separately from the rest of the show's catalogue. The episode, written by stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jon Bernthal, is set before the events of the series. Jacobs reprises her role from The Bear for the special.

Jacobs does not drink alcohol or take any recreational drugs, a choice she made when she was younger after watching some family members struggle with addiction. She revealed that her father was an addict and that she was fearful of becoming the same, a feeling reinforced in her youth by reading the book Go Ask Alice, which follows a teenage girl suffering drug addiction. Jacobs is in a relationship with Christopher Storer.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2006 — The — Adele Congreve — 3 episodes • 2007 — Traveler — Kimberly — Episode: "Pilot" • 2008 — Fringe — Joanne Ostler — Episode: "The Equation" • 2009 — Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Sue Smith — Episode: "Rock Star" • Royal Pains — Tess Frimoli — Episode: "There Will Be Food" • The — Sonia — Episode: "Pilot" • 2009–2015 — Community — Britta Perry — 110 episodes • 2010 — Aqua Teen Hunger Force — Carl's Wife — Voice, episode: "Larry Miller Hair System" • 2012 — Robot Chicken — Various Characters — Voice, episode: "Punctured Jugular" • 2012–2016 — Comedy Bang! Bang! — Post-Apocalypse Woman / Herself — 3 episodes • 2013 — The — Marsha Backwood — Voice, episode: "Venture Libre" • 2013–2014 — Monsters vs. Aliens — Sta'abi, additional voices — Voice, 12 episodes • 2013 — Talking Dead — Herself — Episode: "Indifference" • 2014 — Rupaul's Drag Race — Guest Judge — Episode: "Snatch Game" • The — Sonny — Episode: "Bosom Buddies" • American Dad! — Christy — Voice, episode: "Introducing the Naughty Stewardesses" • Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories — Young Patient — Episode: "Toes" • 2015 — Girls — Mimi-Rose Howard — 5 episodes • Adventure Time — M.A.R.G.L.E.S. — Voice, episode: "You Forgot Your Floaties" • Long Live the Royals — Rosalind — Voice, 4 episodes • 2016 — Great Minds with Dan Harmon — Ada Lovelace — Episode: "Ada Lovelace" • 2016–2018 — Love — Mickey Dobbs — 34 episodes • 2017 — Dr. Ken — Erin — Episode: "Ken's New Intern" • Regular Show — Blu-ray, Dome Computer — Voice, 3 episodes • Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ — Jenny Tanner — Episode: "Chelsea Leight-Leigh Lately" • Justice League Action — Roxy Rocket — Voice, episode: "The Fatal Fare" • Rick and Morty — Supernova — Voice, episode: "Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender" • HarmonQuest — Chip — Episode: "The Quest Continues" • 2018 — Random Acts of Flyness — Herself — Episode: "They Got Some S**t That'll Blow Out Our Back" • Angie Tribeca — Becky Bunnker — Episode: "Joystick Luck Club" • 2019 — Weird City — Mulia — Episode: "Chonathan & Mulia & Barsley & Phephanie" • At Home with Amy Sedaris — Herself — Episode: "Anniversary" • Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show — Mary Poppins — Episode: "Full House But Black" • 2020 — The — Annie Mitchell — Episode: "Meet in the Middle" • Star Trek: Lower Decks — Lieutenant Barbara Brinson — Voice, episode: "Cupid's Errant Arrow" • Earth to Ned — Herself — Episode: "Late Night Ned" • Marvel's 616 — Episode: "Higher, Further, Faster"; director • 2021–present — Invincible — Samantha Eve Wilkins / Atom Eve — Voice, 22 episodes • 2021 — Cinema Toast — Voice, episode: "Warehouse Friends" • Aquaman: King of Atlantis — Mera — Voice, 3 episodes • 2021–2023 — Ten Year Old Tom — Dakota — Voice, 20 episodes • 2022–2023 — Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty — Chris Riley — 7 episodes • Minx — Maggie — 3 episodes • 2022–2026 — The — Tiffany Jerimovich — 10 episodes • 2023 — Transatlantic — Mary Jayne Gold — 7 episodes • StoryBots: Answer Time — Voice, episode: "Glass" • Ada Twist, Scientist — Miss Greer — Voice, episode: "A Twist in Time" • Carol & the End of the World — Lisa — Voice, episode: "The Distraction" • 2024 — Yo Gabba Gabbaland! — Herself — Episode: "Land" • 2024–2025 — After Midnight — Herself — 4 episodes • 2025 — Krapopolis — Ana — Voice, episode: "Ty Big Fat Greek Wedding" • American Experience — Narrator — Episode: "Mr. Polaroid" • Long Story Short — Caitlyn McClendon — Voice, episode: "Wolves" • 2025–2026 — Wylde Pak — Alice Kelly — Voice, 5 episodes

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2026 — Invincible VS — Samantha Eve Wilkins / Atom Eve

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2011 — Don Cheadle Is Captain Planet — Linka — Funny or Die segment • 2012 — The — Penelope — 2 episodes • 2013 — Tiny Commando — Mitzi McNeil — 8 episodes • 2017 — STRANGER THINGS: A Bad Lip Reading — Nancy Wheeler — Voice • 2022 — Vindicators 2: Last Stand Between Earth and Doom — Supernova — Voice, 10 episodes

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2006 — cagelove — Katie — Rattlestick Playwrights Theater • 2007 — The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero — Girl — DR2 Theatre • A Feminine Ending — Amanda Blue — Playwrights Horizons • 2008 — The Little Flower of East Orange — Nadine / Cathleen — The Public Theater • 2018 — Kings — Kate — The Public Theater

• Year — Title — Role — Production company — Notes • 2019–2022 — Blood Ties — Eleonore Richland — Wondery • 2021 — Christmas Delivery — Beth Briny — Audible • 2022 — Batman: The Audio Adventures — Harley Quinn/Harleen Quinzel — Blue Ribbon Content • 2022–present — 99% Invisible — SiriusXM — Producer and contributor (Episodes: "Mini-Stories: Volume 20," "A River Runs Through Los Angeles," "Mr. Yuk," "Walk of Fame," "Sister Aimee and the Birth of the Megachurch," and "The Bone Wars")

Gillian Jacobs was born on 19 October 1982 in Pittsburgh. Jacobs held the nationality of United States. Jacobs was educated at Juilliard School, which Jacobs left in 2004, Mt. Lebanon High School and Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts. Jacobs worked as actor, stage actor, film actor and voice actor, and the authority record catalogues a further 1 occupations under the same name, among them film director. Jacobs was active from 2005. Jacobs worked in English.