Dream big; live bigger. Thank you for visiting this website and welcome to my journey.
-ABOUT-
Levi Jacobs is a Taiwanese/American actor & model who is known for the role of Jared in the feature film Aberdeen (2018) and recently wrapped production as the lead - Massimo in an untitled feature - “Time Movie”. He has modeled for Din Tai Fung’s first apparel collection, The North Face Neon Collection, and Merrell’s ’21-’22 Moab collection. Born in Taipei, Taiwan and fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Levi began participating in theater, dance, acting, and speech competition starting at the age of 11 and now lives in Los Angeles pursuing a life in the arts.
Levi has garnered multiple levels of training through classes he’s taken with Benjamin Mathes, Killian McHugh, Diane & Tess Christensen, Tony Doupé, Heidi Walker, Patti Kalles (CSA), Scott Sedita, David Hogan & Angela DiMarco, as well as Meisner training through Eastside Actor’s Lab, and a few others to name.
Jacobs has also amassed experience through choreographing for Global Motion Dance Showcase, walking the runway for Piece Unik, working with multiple companies like Amazon and Microsoft and various photographers like Rafael Astorga, Alister Mori, Ben Hansen, & Dan Lao, Levi has created a variety of projects that you can locate on his Instagram @levikgram22 as well as this website under “projects”.
Started dancing at age 10, he has been dancing hip-hop, popping, and urban on and off since then. For 6 years he’s competed in multiple speech competitions and has been acting and modeling professionally since 2017/2018. Incredibly adventurous and spontaneous, he’s traveled to 15 countries and 33 cities outside of America. In his downtime he also enjoys working out, reading, watching movies, going out with friends, and snowboarding. Levi strongly believes in gratitude, curiosity, and actively seeks discomforts in order to grow. He strives to be among the new generation of Asian Americans to play leading roles in feature films and network tv.
-MY STORY-
I was 24 when I moved to Los Angeles, 19 when I moved to Seattle, 10 when I moved to Taipei, 6 when I moved to Chicago, & zero when I moved into this world.
It has been quite the life with lots of settling & unsettling, changes & stagnancy, discomforts & challenges. Balancing the life of being biracial & doing my best to adapt to new cultures was, no doubt, fairly difficult.
Growing up, the most impactful season of my life was high school in Taipei to which it would take me more than the run time of Oppenheimer to fully explain. School started at 7:30am & ended 13 hours later at 8:30pm (9:00pm for seniors). Dating could get you expelled and no makeup or hair dying was allowed. Long story short: It was nothing close to being easy. But was it necessary? 100%.
I was never considered “book smart”. Matter of fact, during my senior year my math teacher made a separate test (which I barely passed) specifically for me to take so I wouldn’t fail school.
However, the amount of growth within those 3 years was exponential which eventually led me to being elected as the school’s model student where I would represent my highschool to receive an award from the mayor of Taipei. So safe to say a great deal happened within those years. But that would take at least the runtime of The Irishman to explain.
After graduating high school in 2016, leaving my country, culture, language, and family behind to move from Taipei to Seattle on my own was extremely daunting to say the least. It was, matter of fact, the second toughest decision I’ve ever made in my life. Whereas, in 2021, moving from Seattle to Los Angeles was my first.
The 5 years I spent in Seattle became training, gaining experiences and preparation for my eventual move to Los Angeles and thus became the prologue as I entered chapter 1 of my new story by bidding my closest friends farewell, leaving behind familiarity and what I’ve cultivated for myself to pursue the goal of “making it” as not just an actor, but an inspiration in The City of Dreamers.
And thus, the journey began……