Gillian Jacobs Signs With WME
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EXCLUSIVE: Actress and director Gillian Jacobs has signed with WME for representation in all areas.
Jacobs most recently starred as Mary Jayne Gold in Netflix original series Transatlantic, a WWII drama that follows the story of American allies forming a rescue operation in Marseilles to help refugees fleeing Europe.
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She also recently portrayed Tiffany Jerimovich in the second season of FX’s hit series The Bear. She can be seen in the second season of Minx on Starz, Netflix’s Love, produced by Judd Apatow, and she co-starred in the fourth season of HBO’s Girls as Mimi Rose Howard.
Jacobs voices the character Samantha Eve Wilkins in Amazon’s Invincible alongside Steven Yeun and voices Dakota in Max’s Ten Year Old Tom.
Jacobs starred as Britta in Community and is reprising the role in Community: The Movie alongside co-stars Joel McHale, Alison Brie and Danny Pudi.
As a director, she helmed the 2022 documentary More Than Robots, which premiered at SXSW. The documentary follows four teams of teenagers from around the world as they prepare for the 2020 First Robotics Competition.
She made her directorial debut with The Queen of Code, a documentary short film about Grace Hopper, the computer scientist and high-ranking naval officer. The short premiered on Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight website in 2015 as part of the Signals docuseries.
In theater, Jacobs starred in Thomas Kail’s and Sarah Burgess’ off-Broadway play, Kings.
Jacobs, a Juilliard School grad, continues to be repped by Authentic Talent and Literary Management, Origin Public Relations, and Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler Feldman & Clark.
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