Gillian Jacobs
Gillian Jacobs
Gillian MacLaren Jacobs is an American actress. She portrayed Britta Perry on the NBC/Yahoo! Screen comedy series Community and stars as Mickey on the Netflix series Love. Jacobs has also appeared in television shows such as Fringe, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Good Wife, and Girls, and in films such as Gardens of the Night, The Box, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, and Bad Milo!...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth19 October 1982
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.
'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'
I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seberg would make a great biopic. She was in Jean-Luc Godard's 'Breathless,' she played Joan of Arc. She had this eventful and traumatic adulthood, she thought the FBI was after her, and she became a darling of the French New Wave.
Sometimes movies that I'm in that I have a leading role don't necessarily get the biggest release, so it's a difficult thing between balancing indies that have uncertain futures and maybe larger films that have guaranteed releases that you have a smaller part in.
I can't tell you the number of people that are like, 'Has anyone ever told you you look like a blonde Liv Tyler?' And at this point, I'm like, 'Yes... yes, I've been told that.' I mean, she's beautiful. It's not like I'm not totally flattered by it, but then again, I think I look like myself.
The nice part about not being a huge film is that you get to goof around a bit more.
I've been in a lot of indie movies, where we didn't necessarily have permits or permission. I've even run from the cops in the New York City subways!
I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.
They didn't really encourage my goofy, comedic side at Juilliard.
Like, I'm hyper-conscious about going to bed on time, and doing my seven-step skin care routine at night.
I've been making Vine videos for a couple of months. They're just six-second little videos, but I really have fun doing them. It's just fun to feel like you created something.
I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out.
My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.