Born and raised in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Jacobson attended Blessed Sacrament School and Holyoke Catholic High School. He went on to spend a year at
Roger Williams University in
Bristol, RI, where he was a member of the men's basketball team. He moved to
Los Angeles in 2001 to pursue a career in acting and got his start booking various commercials, including
Budweiser and
Castrol. In 2009, Jacobson earned a small role in the pilot for the
Showtime series
Nurse Jackie, which later became a major recurring role, appearing in 25 episodes over the next 4 seasons. During this time, Jacobson also worked on several other series including
NCIS,
Southland (TV series),
Law & Order: LA, and
Rizzoli & Isles. His career continued with roles on TV's
CSI,
Shameless and
Modern Family, and in feature films like
Celeste & Jesse Forever and the 2013
Steve Jobs biopic
Jobs, starring
Ashton Kutcher,
Josh Gad, and
J. K. Simmons. Following his final season on
Nurse Jackie, Jacobson shared with his cast-mates a
Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, his first major nomination. In August 2013,
Deadline Hollywood announced that Jacobson would be starring in Comedy Central pilot
Big Time in Hollywood, FL, alongside
Jessica Alba and
Thomas Jane. Since 2019, Jacobson has portrayed Wayne Cobb, husband of
NASA Astronaut Molly Cobb, in the
Apple TV+ original
science fiction space
drama series
For All Mankind. ==Filmography==