Gillian Jacobs Bio - Biography

Name Gillian Jacobs
Height
Naionality American
Date of Birth 1982
Place of Birth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Famous for
* 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. Her performance as an assault victim was praised in a New York Times review, which said she "has the glow of a star in the making."
* Researched roles playing drug addicts and strippers by learning to snort fake drugs and preparing pole-dancing routines. She told Interview magazine that she prepared for role as Froggy in the 2007 independent film Blackbird by working on a striptease routine while her family prepared Thanksgiving dinner downstairs.
* 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.

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