Gillian MacLaren Jacobs

Gillian MacLaren Jacobs born October 19th, 1982 is an American actress. She is most well-known for her role 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 Howard in the fourth season of the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012-2017) and was in films like 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 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 19th, 1982. Martina Magenau Jacobs her mother works in alumni relations at Carnegie Mellon University. William F. Jacobs Jr. was an investment banker. Her father passed away in 2013. Her mother raised her in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Her family was the owners of the Erie Brewing Company (not to be confused with the later brewery of the identical name) and her grandfather, John Martin Magenau Jr., served as CEO and president until the brewery closed in 1978.Jacobs began studying acting at the age of four and was a student in weekend classes at the Pittsburgh Playhouse while growing up. She performed regularly at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. There she also won the public's Shakespeare Monologue Contest. That was the catalyst for her participation in Titania in their production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mt. After finishing her studies at Lebanon High School in 2000, she relocated to New York City to study at the Juilliard School. She graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.