Stephanie Jacobsen

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Stephanie Jacobsen
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Jacobsen in 2011
Born
Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen

(1980-06-22) 22 June 1980 (age 43)
OccupationActress
Years active2000–present

Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen (born 1980), is a Hong Kong-born Australian actress.

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Early life and education

Jacobsen was born in British Hong Kong. Her family moved to Australia when she was twelve years old. [1]

She is Chinese, Portuguese, Norwegian and English descent. [1]

She attended the University of Sydney, from which she graduated with a double-major Bachelor of Arts in English literature and philosophy. [1]

Career

Jacobsen began her career in the SBS comedy series Pizza . She later appeared in the Australian soap opera Home and Away , playing Charlotte Adams from 2001 to 2002, and in the Australian science fiction series Farscape , as well as a number of TV commercials.

In 2007, Jacobsen landed the role of Kendra Shaw in Battlestar Galactica: Razor , a between-seasons television film of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series. [2] She also played Sam Tyler's future girlfriend in the original pilot of the American television show Life on Mars .

In 2008, she was cast on the Fox series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles , [3] playing Jesse, a Resistance fighter and girlfriend of Derek Reese. She also played Yoshi in The Devil's Tomb .

In April 2009, Jacobsen was cast on The CW's revamped Melrose Place [4] in the role of medical student Lauren Yung.

In 2010, she acted in the science fiction film Quantum Apocalypse. In 2011, Jacobsen made a cameo appearance in the Two and a Half Men episode "People Who Love Peepholes" as Charlie's former girl friend, Penelope.

In 2012, she appeared in the 2012 detective thriller film Alex Cross (as played by Tyler Perry), as the businesswoman Fan Yau Lee, who becomes the first victim of the antagonist Picasso (Matthew Fox). Loosely based on the novel Cross by James Patterson, the film was the third installment of the Alex Cross film series and a reboot of said series.

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2007 Battlestar Galactica: Razor Kendra Shaw Television film
2009 The Devil's Tomb YoshiDirect-to-video
2010Quantum ApocalypseLynneTelevision film
2011 Three Inches WattsTelevision film
2012 Alex Cross Fan Yau
2014House of SecretsAlisonTelevision film
2018 Occupation Amelia ChambersCredited as Stephany Jacobsen
Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
2000–2001 Pizza Selina5 episodes
2001–2002 Home and Away Charlotte Adams Seasons 14–15 (role held: 10 September 2001 – 3 September 2002)
2001 Farscape Nurse FroyEpisode: "Incubator"
2005–2006 headLand Li-Liu Tan10 episodes
2008–2009 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Jesse Flores 10 episodes
2009–2010 Melrose Place Lauren Yung Main cast; 18 episodes
2011 Two and a Half Men PenelopeEpisode: "People Who Love Peepholes"
2013 Hawaii Five-0 Amy DavidsonEpisode: "Hana I WaʻIa"
2014 Revenge Niko Takeda4 episodes
2014 Star-Crossed Eva Benton5 episodes
2014 NCIS Leia Pendergast1 episode
2021 Dota: Dragon's Blood DrysiVoice role

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