Age: 43
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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.
A shy, unassuming high-school student, Peter Parker, was raisedby his aunt May and uncle Ben after his parents died when he was a kid. When Peter gets bitten by a genetically modified spider, he develops the superhuman abilities of super strength, wall-crawling and super reflexes, and with homemade web-shooters and costume he assumes the identity of Spider-Man! -- But one selfish action would cost him everything... He lets a robber go right past him and escape, and later that night he comes home to tragedy, his uncle Ben is dead, and was killed by that very same robber. Now, engulfed in regret and guilt, he swears to take care of his aunt May and protect New York City with his amazing abilities, with the words of his uncle Ben forever in his memory: "With great power, comes great responsibility."
