Gillian Jacobs

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1982-10-19 (43 years old)

Place of Birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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., se...

Acting

2020

Community Table Read

as Britta Perry

2009

The Box

as Dana

2008

Choke

as Cherry Daiquiri / Beth

2009

Solitary Man

as Tall Girl

2010

NoNAMES

as CJ

2010

Coach

as Zoe

2011

Let Go

as Darla

2014

2013

Bad Milo!

as Sarah

2014

The Big Ask

as Emily

2007

Blackbird

as Froggy

2014

2014

2016

Brother Nature

as Gwen Turley

2014

2016

Dean

as Nicky

-

2014

Harmontown

as Self

2013

2015

No Way Jose

as Penny

2005

2015

Visions

as Sadie

2016

2013

Crush

as Shira Wall

-

Beverly Hills

as Cindy Tyler

2017

Lemon

as Tracy

2018

2020

Magic Camp

as Christina Darkwood

2018

Ibiza

as Harper

2020

Come Play

as Sarah

2021

Fear Street: 1978

as C. Berman / Adult Ziggy

2021

Fear Street: 1666

as Adult Ziggy / C. Berman

2021

Fear Street: 1994

as C. Berman (voice)

2022

The Contractor

as Brianne

2020

I Used to Go Here

as Kate Conklin

2021

North Hollywood

as Abigaile

2021

Injustice

as Harley Quinn (voice)

-

Up All Night

as Marni

2025

Mr. Polaroid

as Narrator (voice)

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