Gillian MacLaren Jacobs (/ˈɡɪliən/; born October 19, 1982) is an American actress and director. She is best known for portraying Britta Perry on the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015), Mimi-Rose Howard on the fourth season of the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2015), Mickey Dobbs on the Netflix romantic comedy series Love (2016–2018), and the voice of Atom Eve on the Amazon animated series Invincible (2021–present). She has also appeared in films such as Gardens of the Night (2008), Life Partners (2014), Don't Think Twice (2016), Ibiza (2018), I Used to Go Here (2020), and The Fear Street Trilogy (2021).

Early life
Gillian MacLaren Jacobs was born in Pittsburgh on October 19, 1982, the daughter of Carnegie Mellon University alumni relations department employee Martina Magenau and investment banker William F. Jacobs Jr. Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and she was raised by her mother in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Her family owned the Erie Brewing Company (not to be confused with the later brewery of the same name), where her grandfather was president and CEO until it closed in 1978. She began studying acting at the age of four and attended weekend acting classes 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, she moved to New York City to attend the Juilliard School, where she graduated with a BFA in 2004.