Stephanie Jacobsen

Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen (born 1980), is a Hong Kong-born Australian actress.

Early life and education Jacobsen was born in British Hong Kong. Her family moved to Australia when she was twelve years old.

She is of Chinese, Portuguese, Norwegian and English descent. She also played Sam Tyler's future girlfriend in the original pilot of the American television show Life on Mars.

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.

In April 2009, Jacobsen was cast on The CW's revamped Melrose Place in the role of medical student Lauren Yung.

In 2010, she acted in the science fiction film Quantum Apocalypse. 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.

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.

Filmography +Film Year Title Role Notes 2007 Battlestar Galactica: Razor Kendra Shaw Television film 2009 Yoshi Direct-to-video 2010 Quantum Apocalypse Lynne Television film 2011 Three Inches Watts Television film 2012 Alex Cross Fan Yau 2014 House of Secrets Alison Television film 2018 OccupationAmelia ChambersCredited as Stephany Jacobsen

+Television Year Title Role Notes 2000–2001 Pizza Selina 5 episodes 2001–2002 Home and Away Charlotte Adams Seasons 14–15 (role held: 10 September 2001 – 3 September 2002) 2001 Farscape Nurse Froy Episode: "Incubator" 2005–2006 headLand Li-Liu Tan 10 episodes 2008–2009 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Jesse Flores 10 episodes 2009–2010 Melrose Place Lauren Yung Main cast; 18 episodes 2011 Two and a Half Men Penelope Episode: "People Who Love Peepholes" 2013 Hawaii Five-0 Amy Davidson Episode: "Hana I WaʻIa" 2014 Revenge Niko Takeda 4 episodes 2014 Star-Crossed Eva Benton 5 episodes 2014 NCIS Leia Pendergast 1 episode 2021 Dota: Dragon's Blood Drysi Voice role