Background
Jacobs was born in San Francisco, with a Filipino mother and an American father.
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Jacobs attended Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey, where she performed with The Princeton High School Choir. She graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance. Dancing since the age of three, she studied ballet, tap, and jazz.
Career
She later moved to Half Moon Bay, California, and then to New New York Her brother is Adam Jacobs, who is also a theatre performer. Jacobs" first time in front of an audience was at the age of seven, as a Christmas present in a school play.
She began studying voice at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and later at the Westminster Conservatory of Music.
Her first taste of professional theatre came at the age of ten when she was cast in a new musical called Honor Song for Crazy Horse at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts in California. Jacobs appeared as Rosa in the musical The Rose of Corazon at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival.
She also originated the role of Gabriella Montez in the original production and national tour of Disney"s High School Musical. Jacobs then starred as Nina Rosario in the first national Tour of In the Heights, a role for which she received positive reviews from critics.
Regional theatre credits include Camelot, A Chorus Lincolnshire, and Ragtime.
Other roles include the role of Jennifer in the 2005 film Water Lillies and an appearance on the television series Commander in Chief. Jacobs made her Broadway debut when she joined the cast of In the Heights, replacing Jordin Sparks as Nina. She played the role from November 15, 2010, to the show"s closing on January 9, 2011.
She was also a featured performer in a memorial service for the September 11 attacks in New York City, as well as a guest star on Disney 365.
She then appeared in the revue Foreign the Record: Baz Luhrmann in Los Angeles, presented by Show at Barre. lieutenant ran from February 12, 2011, to April 30, 2011.
Also starring were Jenna Leigh Green and Kate Reinders. Jacobs joined the cast of Wicked in New York City as Nessarose, on March 10, 2015.
Politics
Jacobs takes an active interest in environmentalism and animal rights, maintaining an environmental website called "Help Heal the Earth." She currently resides on the East and West coasts of the United States, spending time in New York City as well as Los Los Angeles
