Gillian MacLaren Jacobs

Gillian MacLaren Jacobs was born on the 19th of October, 1982. She is an American actress. She is well-known for her performances as Britta Perry in the NBC comedy series Community (2009-2015), Mickey Dobbs on the Netflix romantic comedy series Love (2016-2018), and Atom Eve on the Amazon animated series Invincible (2021). She was a regular as Mimi-Rose on the fourth season of the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012-2017) and was in movies such as Life Partners (2014), Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015), Don't Think Twice (2016), Brother Nature (2016), Life of the Party (2018), Ibiza (2018), I Used to Go Here (2020), and the Fear Street trilogy (2021). Gillian MacLaren Jacobs was born on the 19th of October, 1982, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Martina Magenau Jacobs, works in alumni relations at Carnegie Mellon University, while her father, William F. Jacobs Jr., was an investment banker. Her father was killed in the year 2013. She was raised by her mother in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Her family was the owners of the Erie Brewing Company (not to be confused with the subsequent brewery with the same name) which was where her father, John Martin Magenau Jr., served as president and CEO until it closed in 1978.Jacobs started studying acting at the age of four, and took acting classes on weekends at the Pittsburgh Playhouse while growing up. She was a part of the Pittsburgh Public Theater, where she was a regular participant for the Public's Shakespeare Monologue Contest, leading her to get the role of Titania in the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mt. After finishing her studies at Lebanon High School in 2000, she moved to New York City to study at the Juilliard School. She graduated in 2004 with a BFA.