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The Contractor

as Brianne

2022
Fear Street: 1978

as C. Berman / Adult Ziggy

2021
Injustice

as

2021
Magic Camp

as Christina Darkwood

2020
Come Play

as Sarah

2020
I Used to Go Here

as Kate Conklin

2020
Life of the Party

as Helen

2018
Ibiza

as Harper

2018
Brother Nature

as Gwen Turley

2016
Dean

as Nicky

2016
Don't Think Twice

as Samantha

2016
No Way Jose

as Penny

2015
Visions

as Sadie

2015
Walk of Shame

as Rose

2014
The Big Ask

as Emily

2014
Harmontown

as Self

2014
Black or White

as Fay

2015
Life Partners

as Paige

2014
The Lookalike

as Lacey

2014
Bad Milo!

as Sarah

2013
Made in Cleveland

as Martha

2013
Gillian Jacobs Gillian Jacobs

Birthday

1982-10-20

Place of Birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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.
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