Stephanie Jacobsen is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n actress.

Personal life

Jacobsen was born in Hong Kong, then a British crown colony. Her family moved to Australia when she was twelve years old.

Stephanie attended Sydney University where she graduated with a double major in philosophy and English literature.

Jacobsen is of Chinese, English, and Norwegian descent on her father's side, and of Portuguese

Portuguese people

The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....

 and East Asian descent on her mother's.

Career

Jacobsen began her career on the Australian soap opera, Home and Away

Home and Away

Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...

, playing Charlotte Adams from 2001 to 2002. She later appeared in Farscape

Farscape

Farscape is an Australian-American science fiction television series filmed in Australia and produced originally for the Nine Network. The series was conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment...

and the SBS

Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...

 comedy, Pizza

Pizza (TV series)

Pizza is an Australian black comedy television series on the Australian television network, SBS. It has also spun off a feature length movie in 2003, and in 2004 released a highlights video/DVD which also included previously unshown footage and a schoolies exposé theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza"...

, as well as a number of TV commercials.

In 2007, Jacobsen landed the role of Kendra Shaw in Battlestar Galactica: Razor

Battlestar Galactica: Razor

Battlestar Galactica: Razor is a television film of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series. It premiered in the United States on Sci Fi Channel, in Canada on the Space channel and in the United Kingdom on Sky One.-Production:...

, a between-seasons television film of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)

Battlestar Galactica is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The show was developed by Ronald D. Moore as a re-imagining of the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series created by Glen A. Larson...

TV series. She also played Sam Tyler's future girlfriend in the original pilot of the American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 television show, Life on Mars

Life on Mars (U.S. TV series)

Life on Mars was a science fiction crime drama television series which originally aired on ABC from October 9, 2008 to April 1, 2009. It is an adaptation of the BAFTA-winning original UK series of the same name produced by the BBC...

.

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

The Devil's Tomb

The Devil's Tomb is a 2009 horror film, directed by Jason Connery. It stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Ray Winstone and Ron Perlman. The film was released direct–to–video on May 26, 2009.-Plot:...

.

In April 2009, Jacobsen was cast on The CW's revamped Melrose Place

Melrose Place (2009 TV series)

Melrose Place is an American television series broadcast on The CW Television Network from September 8, 2009 to April 13, 2010. The fifth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise, it is an updated version of the 1990s Fox prime time drama of the same name, featuring a group of young adults...

 in the role of medical student, Lauren Yung.

In 2010, she acted in the science fiction movie, Quantum Apocalypse

Quantum Apocalypse

Quantum Apocalypse is a 2010 science fiction film directed by Justin Jones.-Plot:During routine administration at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Dr. Rhodes discovers that a comet has suddenly veered off its orbit and smashed into Mars. The explosion causes debris to travel towards Earth with...

.

In 2011, Jacobsen made a cameo appearance in Episode 2

People Who Love Peepholes

"People Who Love Peepholes" is the 179th episode and second episode of the ninth season of the American sitcom Two and a Half Men. It is also the second part of the two part premiere of the ninth season, and the last in the series to feature the original version of the show's main theme song "Manly...

 of the ninth season of Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the show was originally about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing son, Jake...

as Charlie’s former gal pal, Penelope.

External links

• Jackie Brygel, "New Chick on the Block," Courier Mail (Queensland, Australia), 13 September 2001, pg. 7.