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Gillian Jacobs
🎂 Oct 19, 1982 (43)
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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.
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Oscars
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The Contractor
2022
Walk of Shame
2014
Fear Street: 1994
2021
The Box
2009
Fear Street: 1978
2021
Life of the Party
2018
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
2022
Fear Street: 1666
2021
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
2013
Injustice
2021
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012
Dean
2016
Choke
2008
Black or White
2014
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
2015
Come Play
2020
Visions
2015
Magic Camp
2020
Solitary Man
2009
Ibiza
2018
I Used to Go Here
2020
Blackbird
2007
Lemon
2017
Bad Milo!
2013
Helena from the Wedding
2010
Don't Think Twice
2016
Coach
2010
Mark, Mary + Some Other People
2021
Gardens of the Night
2008
Let Go
2011
North Hollywood
2021
The Lookalike
2014
Brother Nature
2016
Community Table Read
2020
Life Partners
2014
Revenge for Jolly!
2012
The Big Ask
2014
The Seven Faces of Jane
2023
Monsters Vs Aliens: Cloning Around
2013
Adventures in the Sin Bin
2012
Crush
2013
Captain Planet with Don Cheadle
2011
No Way Jose
2015
It's Not You, It's Me
2013
TV Shows
Community
2009
Ten Year Old Tom
2021
Love
2016
Invincible
2021
Monsters vs. Aliens
2013
Tiny Commando
2013
Cinema Toast
2021
The Bear
2022
Transatlantic
2023
Girls
2012
Long Live the Royals
2015
Aquaman: King of Atlantis
2021
Minx
2022
The Book of Daniel
2006
Regular Show
2010
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2000
Fringe
2008
The Greatest Event in Television History
2012
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
The Venture Bros.
2004
Traveler
2007
Royal Pains
2009
Robot Chicken
2005
Dr. Ken
2015
The Good Wife
2009
HarmonQuest
2016
Carol & the End of the World
2023
Angie Tribeca
2016
Rick and Morty
2013
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$
2016
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Gillian Jacobs
1982-10-19 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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.