Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen (born 1980), is a Hong Kong-born Australian actress.
Jacobsen was born in British Hong Kong.
Her family moved to Australia when she was twelve years old.
She is Chinese, Portuguese, Norwegian and English.
She attended the University of Sydney, from which she graduated with a double-major Bachelor of Arts in English literature and philosophy.
Jacobsen began her career in the SBS comedy series Pizza.
2001
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.
2007
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.
She also played Sam Tyler's future girlfriend in the original pilot of the American television show Life on Mars.
2008
In 2008, she was cast on the Fox series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, playing Jesse, a Resistance fighter and girlfriend of Derek Reese.
She also played Yoshi in The Devil's Tomb.
2009
In April 2009, Jacobsen was cast on The CW's revamped Melrose Place in the role of medical student Lauren Yung.
2010
In 2010, she acted in the science fiction film Quantum Apocalypse.
2011
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.
2012
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.
