Louisa Jacobson

Louisa Jacobson made her professional acting debut in 2017 in Native Son at the Yale Repertory Theatre, and she’s blazed a thespian trail ever since. After graduating from Yale in 2019, Jacobson was cast as Marian Brook in The Gilded Age, a role she still plays on HBO’s hit historical drama. She says the most rewarding part of her work is “when people share with me how the stories I tell or the characters I play resonate with them on a deeply personal level. It’s really moving to learn how a story or a character helped someone through a difficult time, or made them feel seen.” This seems fitting for the actress, who came out publicly during Pride month in 2024 and credits multiple books with helping her learn more about her identity. One such book was When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan, which she describes as “really moving because I feel these stories were always left out of the history books I grew up reading.” Jacobson also loves the film Blue is the Warmest Color and says she was touched by the film The World to Come. “Lastly, there are so many women who have helped me personally, but it was largely Kristen Stewart’s visibility that really made an impact on my own coming out journey. I don’t know her personally, but I identified with her story.” –SS