Abbi Jacobson

Profile Overview

Abbi Jacobson (born 1984) is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and illustrator. She co-created and co-starred in the Comedy Central series Broad City (2014–2019) with Ilana Glazer, based on the web series of the same name. She is a writer and co-creator of the Amazon Prime series A League of Their Own (2022), in which she also stars as Carson Shaw, a baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Her other roles include voicing Katie Mitchell in The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), Nya in The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), and Princess Bean in the series Disenchantment (2018–2023), in addition to appearing in the live-action films Person to Person (2017) and 6 Balloons (2018).
Jacobson founded production company Tender Pictures in 2020, and co-founded fellowship program Prelude alongside Mieka Tennant. She has published two colouring books of her own illustrations, and published a book of personal essays, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities and Other Stuff (2018).