Chris Jacobs

Chris Jacobs

Born: January 30, 1970
in Chicago, Illinois
Chris Jacobs is a television host and personality. He is the host of Overhaulin' and the lead host for Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auctions which both air on Velocity. He formerly hosted The Insider and also worked as a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. He now also works for NFL Network, and recently hosted the interactive portion of Chopper Live and Gold Rush Live both on Discovery Channel.

He attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois and then Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan before moving to California in 1988 where he attended Whittier College, earning a bachelor's degree in English. He also attended and graduated from Western State University College of Law and was later admitted to the state bar of California in 1995.[citation needed].[1]

He had small television roles in The X-Files, CSI, Touched by an Angel and Two and a Half Men. In July 2009, he hosted a TV infomercial for CarMD vehicle diagnostic tool with Keri Hatfield, the winner of Miss Utah USA 2000. In 2011, the infomercial "Save with CarMD" also won the Moxie Awards for Best Long Form of the Year – Under 250k. On November 22, 2009, he was the presenter for the live telecast of the Miss California USA pageant. From 2009 to 2011, he co-presented The Insider with Lara Spencer. On March 5, 2011, it was announced that he had been named a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. Jacobs left ET in early 2013. Jacobs' TV series Overhaulin' returned for a sixth season on Velocity in the fall of 2012.

From 2013, when Jacobs left Entertainment Tonight, he became a weekend presenter for the NFL Network. He hosted Skywire Live on Discovery.com for the Discovery Channel in June 2013. In November 2014 he hosted "Skyscraper Live" for Discovery Channel in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Jacobs is the primary talent for live and special events for all networks in the Discovery family.

In January 2015 Jacobs resumed the role of host for Velocity's Live broadcast of the Barrett Jackson Auto Auctions. On October 13, 2015, Velocity announced the final season of Jacobs long-running series Overhaulin'.

In June 2015, production began on Long Lost Family, which debuted on TLC on March 6, 2016. Jacobs hosts the show along with Lisa Joyner.

Movies for Chris Jacobs...

Title: Taken at Birth
Character: Self
Released: October 9, 2019
Type: TV
Dr. Thomas Hicks illegally sold more than 200 babies from the back door of his Georgia clinic in the 1950s and 1960s. Investigator Jane Blasio works alongside Lisa Joyner and Chris Jacobs to uncover the truth about these black market babies.
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Title: Long Lost Family
Character: Himself - Host
Released: March 6, 2016
Type: TV
Follow the touching stories of people who have suffered a lifetime of separation and are yearning to be reunited with their birthparents and biological families or find children they had to place for adoption long ago.
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Title: Overhaulin'
Character: Himself - Presenter
Released: April 13, 2004
Type: TV
Overhaulin' is an American automotive reality TV show that ran for five seasons on TLC between 2004–2009, and currently on Velocity and Discovery.
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Title: Two and a Half Men
Character: Dave
Released: September 22, 2003
Type: TV
A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.
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The Real Deal
Title: The Real Deal
Character: Troy Taylor
Released: November 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Vince Vassar, an infamous Hollywood producer, thinks that the power he wields is limitless. But when he shuts his employee Sammy out of the multi-million dollar movie deal that Sammy brought him, the scorned assistant decides to eliminate Vince from the deal, and from every future one. Unfortunately, Vince's wife already has a plan for her husband's life and his money. Now a deadly web has been woven in which no one know who can trust whom.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Luke
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Title: V.I.P.
Character: Dr. 'Bonzai' Kovacs
Released: September 26, 1998
Type: TV
While attending a Hollywood premiere with a famous action star, a crazed fan pulls a gun—but her movie hunk turns into a coward, and it's Vallery who becomes the hero. Suddenly, she's thrown into a world of action and danger as owner of a Hollywood protection agency, Vallery Irons Protection (V.I.P.), taking risks to protect others at a price few are willing to pay.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: E.R. Doctor
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.