![Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen, usually credited as Stephanie Jacobsen, (born 22 June 1980 in Hong Kong) is a television actress. Her mother is Portuguese and her father has Chinese, Norwegian, and English descent.
In 2007, Jacobsen landed the role of Kendra Shaw in Battlestar Galactica: Razor, a between-seasons television film of the Peabody Award-winning re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series. In 2008 she was cast on the Fox television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles[1], playing Jesse, a Resistance fighter and girlfriend of Derek Reese.
In April 2009, Jacobsen was cast on The CW’s revamped Melrose Place in the role of call-girl/medical student Lauren Yung.
Jacobsen began her career on the Australian soap opera Home and Away, playing Charlotte Adams from 2001 to 2002. She later appeared in Farscape and the SBS comedy Pizza, as well as a number of TV commercials.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/NJmdcGbXSp5ruukgrZv2LEROo1_400.jpg)
Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen, usually credited as Stephanie Jacobsen, (born 22 June 1980 in Hong Kong) is a television actress. Her mother is Portuguese and her father has Chinese, Norwegian, and English descent.
In 2007, Jacobsen landed the role of Kendra Shaw in Battlestar Galactica: Razor, a between-seasons television film of the Peabody Award-winning re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series. In 2008 she was cast on the Fox television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles[1], playing Jesse, a Resistance fighter and girlfriend of Derek Reese.
In April 2009, Jacobsen was cast on The CW’s revamped Melrose Place in the role of call-girl/medical student Lauren Yung.
Jacobsen began her career on the Australian soap opera Home and Away, playing Charlotte Adams from 2001 to 2002. She later appeared in Farscape and the SBS comedy Pizza, as well as a number of TV commercials.
