15 Facts About Gillian Jacobs

Gillian MacLaren Jacobs is an American actress and director.

Gillian Jacobs is best known for playing Britta Perry in the NBC sitcom Community, Mimi-Rose Howard in the fourth season of the HBO comedy-drama series Girls, Mickey Dobbs in the Netflix romantic comedy series Love, Mary Jayne Gold in the Netflix limited series Transatlantic, and the voice of Atom Eve in the animated superhero series Invincible.

Gillian Jacobs has appeared in films, such as Gardens of the Night, Life Partners, Don't Think Twice, Ibiza, I Used to Go Here and The Fear Street Trilogy.

Gillian MacLaren Jacobs was born in Pittsburgh on October 19,1982, the daughter of Carnegie Mellon University alumni relations department employee Martina Magenau and investment banker William F Jacobs Jr.

Gillian Jacobs's parents divorced when she was two years old, and she was raised by her mother in Mt.

Gillian Jacobs's family owned the Erie Brewing Company, where her grandfather was president and CEO until it closed in 1978.

Gillian Jacobs began studying acting at the age of four and attended weekend acting classes at the Pittsburgh Playhouse while growing up.

Gillian Jacobs 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.

Gillian Jacobs has appeared in theatrical productions such as The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero, A Feminine Ending, and The Little Flower of East Orange.

Gillian Jacobs voiced Sta'abi in the Nickelodeon 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 Gillian Jacobs had landed a recurring role as Mimi-Rose Howard in the fourth season of the HBO series Girls.

Gillian Jacobs directed the 2015 documentary short The Queen of Code about computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper.

In 2017, Gillian Jacobs co-starred in Janicza Bravo's first full length feature, Lemon, which debuted at Sundance Film Festival.

In 2020, Gillian Jacobs starred in the comedy-drama film I Used to Go Here, directed by Kris Rey.

Gillian Jacobs 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 who becomes addicted to drugs.