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Gillian Jacobs Biography

Birth Name:
Gillian McLaren Jacobs
Birth Place:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Profession
Actor

Fast Facts

  • Her first love is theater: She started acting at the Pittsburgh Public Theater and frequently competed in an annual Shakespeare Monologue Contest
  • Started her TV career on the 2006 NBC series Book of Daniel
  • Made her New York stage debut in 2006 in Cagelove
  • Researched roles playing drug addicts and strippers by learning to snort fake drugs and preparing pole-dancing routines
  • Starred in such off-Broadway productions as Little Flower of East Orange, which was directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, as well as A Feminine Ending, directed by Blair Brown