Age: 43
female
Gillian Jacobs (born October 19, 1982) is an American film, theatre and television actress, best known for her role as Britta Perry on the NBC comedy series Community. Jacobs was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Martina Magenau Jacobs, was a Carnegie Mellon University director of alumni relations at the Heinz College. Her father, William F. Jacobs Jr., was an investment banker.She was raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon. She is of French, German, Irish, and Scottish descent. Her family owned the Jackson Koehler Eagle Brewery, established in 1847 in Erie, Pennsylvania, where her grandfather, John Martin Magenau Jr., served as President and CEO until its closure in 1978. Jacobs began studying acting at the age of eight, and attended acting classes on Saturdays at the Pittsburgh Playhouse while growing up.She performed with the Pittsburgh Public Theater, where she was a perennial contender in the Public's Shakespeare Monologue Contest, leading her to be cast as Titania in its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After graduating from Mt. Lebanon High School in 2000, Jacobs moved to New York City, New York to attend the Juilliard School, where she was a member of the Drama Division's Group 33. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2004.
Gillian Jacobs
Claire Coleman Stewart
for Claire Coleman Stewart in Miles Of Hope
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In a small town Johnny got an idea, if his family could just make it to the Super Bowl, it would fix everything. To him it isn't just a game, it's a miracle to happen. His grandpa has dreamed his entire life of seeing a game in person. His grandma is seriously ill, and the family worries she's losing strength and will. His older bro Ben, footballer, no contract ever comes, and he dont know what to do with life. Parent, who first met and fell in love at a NFL game, are now at divorce. The boy does what he knows how to do, prays, asks God for a miracle that could bring family back together. The Johnny wins a radio contest: Super Bowl tickets for the whole family. Trip becomes a chaotic, emotional hilarious journey. Arguments, memories, and laughter that remind them of who they used to be. Super Bowl delivers more than spectacle. Grandpa experiences the dream he never thought he'd live to see. Grandma, surrounded by the loved ones, see young qb to jump into the game and turn the score and win, finds new hope in her. Ben is chosen to compete in on-field challenge, throw that could win a prize. He nails it! Scout takes notice. Its turning point of his life, got scholarship and contract. Parents are where their love story began. They finally understand it is not a fairytale ending, but reminder that their family is worth fighting. Super Bowl doesn't erase illness, fear overnight. It gives courage to begin again. It's about remembering they still love each other.
