| Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen |
| Born | Hong Kong |
Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen (born in Hong Kong, 1980) is a television actress. Her mother is Portuguese and her father Chinese-Norwegian-English. She moved to Australia at the age of 12 and after attending high school in Sydney, Chaves-Jacobsen went to Sydney University where she graduated with majors in philosophy and English literature. She says she received her biggest break when she was cast in a major role as the enthusiastic young medical intern Charlotte Adams on the Australian soap-opera series "Home and Away." She played Lieutenant (later Major) Kendra Shaw [1] in Battlestar Galactica: Razor, a between-seasons television film of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series. [2] Prior to her role in both Battlestar Galactica and in Home and Away, she enjoyed parts in Farscape and the SBS comedy Pizza, as well as a number of TV commercials.
References
External links
- Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen at the Internet Movie Database
- Jackie Brygel, "New Chick on the Block," Courier Mail (Queensland, Australia), September 13, 2001, pg. 7.
