Stephanie Jacobsen


Stephanie Jacobsen and sometimes stylised, or credited as "Stephany", is a Hong Kong-born Australian actress.

Early life and education

Jacobsen was born in Hong Kong. Her family moved to Australia when she was twelve years old. Jacobsen's father is of half-Chinese, quarter-English and quarter-Norwegian descent, while her mother is predominantly of Portuguese ancestry.
Jacobsen attended the University of Sydney, from which she graduated with a double-major Bachelor of Arts in English literature and philosophy.

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 ', a between-seasons television film of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series. 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 ', 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 in the role of medical student Lauren Yung.
In 2010, she acted in the science fiction film Quantum Apocalypse. And in 2011, Jacobsen made a cameo appearance in the Two and a Half Men episode "People Who Love Peepholes" as Charlie's former gal pal, Penelope.
In 2012, she appeared in the 2012 detective thriller film Alex Cross, as the beautiful businesswoman Fan Yau Lee, who becomes the first victim of the antagonist Picasso. 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

YearTitleRoleNotes
2000–2001PizzaSelina5 episodes
2001–2002Home and AwayCharlotte AdamsRole held: 10 September 2001 – 3 September 2002
2001FarscapeNurse FroyEpisode: "Incubator"
2005–2006headLandLi-Liu Tan10 episodes
2008–2009Jesse Flores10 episodes
2009–2010Melrose PlaceLauren YungMain cast; 18 episodes
2011Two and a Half MenPenelopeEpisode: "People Who Love Peepholes"
2013Hawaii Five-0Amy DavidsonEpisode: "Hana I WaʻIa"
2014RevengeNiko Takeda4 episodes
2014Star-CrossedEva Benton5 episodes
2014NCISLeia Pendergast1 episode