Gillian Jacobs

About

Gillian MacLaren Jacobs (; born October 19, 1982) is an American actress. She is known for playing Britta Perry in the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015) and Mickey Dobbs in the Netflix romantic comedy series Love (2016–2018). Her other notable television roles include Mimi-Rose Howard in the fourth season of the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2015), Atom Eve in the animated superhero series Invincible (2021–present), Mary Jayne Gold in the Netflix miniseries Transatlantic (2023), and Tiffany Jerimovich in the FX on Hulu comedy-drama series The Bear (2022–2026).
She has also appeared in films such as Gardens of the Night (2008), Don’t Think Twice (2016), Ibiza (2018), I Used to Go Here (2020), and the Fear Street trilogy (2021).

Gillian MacLaren Jacobs was born in Pittsburgh on October 19, 1982, the only child of college administrator Martina Magenau and investment banker William Francis Jacobs III, son of William Francis Jacobs Jr. and wife Mary Margaret Haskins. Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and she was raised by her mother in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Her maternal family owned a brewery, Erie Brewing Company in Erie, Pennsylvania, where her grandfather…