Shane Jacobson

Q: Has Shane Jacobson won any awards?

Yes, Shane Jacobson received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in 'Kenny' in 2006, highlighting his impact in Australian cinema.

Q: What was Shane Jacobson's first film?

Shane Jacobson's first film role was in 'The Wog Boy' (2000), which marked the beginning of his career in film and introduced him to a wider audience.

Q: How many children does Shane Jacobson have?

Shane Jacobson has two children. However, their names have not been publicly disclosed to maintain their privacy.

Q: What is Shane Jacobson's estimated net worth?

Shane Jacobson's estimated net worth is around $2 million, reflecting his successful career in acting and filmmaking in Australia.

Q: What genre is Shane Jacobson most associated with?

Shane Jacobson is primarily associated with comedy, often portraying humorous and relatable characters in his films and television appearances.

Q: What notable television shows has Shane Jacobson appeared in?

Shane Jacobson has appeared in several television shows, including 'Australia's Got Talent' as a judge, showcasing his talents beyond acting.

Q: What is a defining characteristic of Shane Jacobson's acting style?

Shane Jacobson is known for his engaging and naturalistic acting style, often bringing a sense of authenticity and relatability to his characters.

Known for

The Bourne Legacy (2012)

IMDb 6.6 / 10

2012 / Action, Adventure / 135 min

New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.

The Dressmaker (2015)

IMDb 7 / 10

2015 / Comedy, Drama / 119 min

In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with...

Oddball (2015)

IMDb 6.4 / 10

2015 / Adventure, Family / 95 min

An eccentric chicken farmer trains his mischievous dog to protect a penguin sanctuary from fox attacks in an attempt to reunite his family and...

Name

Shane Jacobson

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

18 June 1971, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spouses

Jodie Jacobson (2005–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Graham Jacobson, Judith Jacobson

Estimated Net Worth

$2 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie How to Talk Australians: The Movie A group of students and teachers from The Delhi College of Linguistics hit the road to discover Australia and gain...	Cleaner	Not rated
2026	TV Ooops! I Bought A Pub Shane Jacobsen dives headfirst into the ultimate country adventure as he attempts to revive a tired old pub in the...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2026	TV Oops I Bought a Pub Oops! I Bought A Pub is a new Australian television show premiering on May 2, 2026, following comedian Shane Jacobson...	Shane Jacobson	Not rated
2026	Movie The Deb Taylah Simpkins, a rural teenage outcast aims to redefine herself at her town's Debutante Ball. When her cynical city cousin,...	Rick	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2024	Movie The Roast of John Cleese Some of Australia's funniest performers pay homage to international comedy legend, John Cleese. Firing good-natured insults & jokes at the...	Self - Host	TMDB 3.7 / 10
2023	Movie Ford v Holden Narrated by Shane Jacobson, Ford v Holden is a feature-length documentary that explores the decades-long competition between two of Australia’s...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2022	Movie The Roast of Paul Hogan Aussie comedy legends roast an Aussie comedy Icon in this hilarious, no holds barred special.	Self - Roast Master	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2022	TV Mates on a Mission The series features Shane Jacobson, Todd McKenney, Kris Smith and Brian “B.T” Taylor as they travel the globe taking on...	Self	Not rated
2021	TV Inside Central Station A ten-part documentary series, Inside Central Station: Australia’s Busiest Railway blends unscripted high-stakes drama with extraordinary engineering marvels, introduces us...	Narrator	Not rated
2021	TV Australia: Now and Then Some of Australia’s most quotable celebrities, comedians, musicians, actors, characters and ratbags – across all generations - take off the...	Himself - Presenter	Not rated
2020	Movie The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee Paul Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the...	Neville Dundee	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2020	Movie Westgate Bridge Disaster: The Untold Stories Fifty years after the collapse of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge that took with it the lives of 35 workers, their...	Narrator	Not rated
2020	Movie Never Too Late It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They...	Bruce Wendell	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2019	Movie The Show Must Go On The Show Must Go On is a personal journey behind the scenes that confronts the epidemic of mental health issues...	Self	TMDB 3.0 / 10
2018	Movie Ladies in Black Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about...	Mr. Miles	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2018	Movie Brothers' Nest With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she dies, two...	Terry	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	Movie That’s Not My Dog! THAT’S NOT MY DOG! is a joyous comedy that celebrates our love of joke telling. The film centres around the...	Shane	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2018	Movie The BBQ Dazza's passion in life is barbecuing, but unfortunately he accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning. To make amends, he receives...	Dazza	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2018	Movie 7 Guardians of the Tomb An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000 year old nightmare - a...	Gary	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2017	TV Little Big Shots Australian version of the comedy-variety show where children take to the stage to showcase their passion and blow you away...	Himself - Host	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2017	Movie A Few Less Men Travel plans for three men go horribly wrong with a race against time to return Luke home.	Mungus	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2016	TV Goober Harry, an optimistic Uber driver with autism, causes confusion, chaos and comedy for his passengers despite the advice of his...	Dad (voice)	Not rated
2016	TV Jack Irish Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now...	Barry Tregear	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2015	Movie The Dressmaker In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she...	Alvin Pratt	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie Oddball An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary...	Swampy Marsh	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2015	TV Open Slather The biggest names in Australian comedy are joining forces with a group of rising new stars for Open Slather, Foxtel’s...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2015	TV Stop Laughing... this is serious Documentary series charting a course through the story of Australian comedy, featuring interviews with the men and women who make...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2014	Movie Hanging with Hoges Comedian Paul Hogan opens the door into his private and public life. It’s been 40 years since he first stepped...	Himself - Host	Not rated
2014	Movie The Apprentice Wayne, an awkward loner, has just started working the graveyard shift as an apprentice mortician. When his merciless supervisor leaves...	Bob	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2014	Movie Jack Irish: Dead Point Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a...	Barry Tregear	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2014	TV Fat Tony & Co The true story of Tony Mokbel; how he grew entangled with the country’s most notorious underworld figures, how he built...	Jim O'Brien	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2013	TV Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery Each week, Julia will invite one of Australia’s finest comics to take a trip down Memory Lane. And Memory Bus...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2013	Movie Top Gear Festival: Sydney Top Gear: Festival Sydney was a special episode of the BBC motoring show Top Gear, featuring the regular presenters Jeremy...	Self - Presenter	Not rated
2013	TV It's a Date It's a Date is a comedy series exploring the tension, expectation and complication of finding true love. Each new episode...	Hugo	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2013	TV The Great Australian Bake Off Baking enthusiasts are put through a series of grueling elimination challenges, baking a mouth-watering selection of cakes, pies, tarts, pastries,...	Himself - Host	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2013	TV The Time of Our Lives The Time of Our Lives follows the lives of the extended Tivolli family as they navigate their way around relationships,...	Luce Tivolli	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2013	TV The Agony of Life No stone will be left unturned as Australia's funniest and brightest take us through the most important stages of existence...	Self	Not rated
2012	Movie The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out, the other travels...	Detective Samuel Gorby	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2012	Movie Jack Irish: Black Tide Jack Irish has no shortage of friends, but family members are few and far between. His wife was murdered by...	Harry Tregear	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2012	Movie Jack Irish: Bad Debts Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now...	Barry Tregear	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2012	Movie The Bourne Legacy New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.	Mackie	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2012	Movie Beaconsfield On Anzac Day 2006 the Beaconsfield mine collapsed, trapping Russell, Webb and fellow miner Larry Knight one kilometre underground. When...	Brant Webb	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2011	Movie Surviving Georgia Surviving Georgia is a heart warming Romantic Comedy about family and finding your own identity in the world. About realising...	Johnnie	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2009	Movie Charlie & Boots After a family tragedy, Charlie and his estranged son, Boots, try to put their differences aside and head off on...	Boots McFarland	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2008	TV Top Gear Australia Top Gear Australia is an Australian motoring television series based on the BBC series Top Gear. The show premiered on...	Self - Host	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2008	Movie Cactus A man is kidnapped from his city home in the quiet hours of the night and, the kidnapper, John Kelly,...	Thommo	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2008	Movie Newcastle 17-year old Jesse lives in the shadow of his older brother Victor's failure to become surfing's Next Big Thing. Even...	Reggie	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2007	TV Australia's Got Talent Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television talent show which premiered on 18 February 2007 on the Seven Network....	Self - Judge	TMDB 8.7 / 10
2007	TV Australia's Got Talent Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television talent show which premiered on 18 February 2007 on the Seven Network....	Himself	TMDB 8.7 / 10
2006	Movie Kenny From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Kenny tackles every septic...	Kenny Smyth	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2006	TV Thank God You're Here Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!"....	Self - Guest Judge	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2005	TV Spicks and Specks Adam Hills, one of Australia's favourite comedians and winner of Edinburgh's Best of the Fest award, is joined by two...	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2002	TV Top Gear This fast-paced and stunt-filled motor show tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary, live up to their manufacturers' claims. The...	Self	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2002	Movie Tanaka Mori Tanaka is sent to Australia from Japan to oversee his uncle's funeral and retrieve his ashes from the man's...	Shane	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie Narcosys Ruthless IT Corp. rules the world, controlling people through drugs and a virus.	Voice of Clones / Voice of Police / Bouncer	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1996	TV Australian Story Putting the "real" back into reality television, Australian Story is an award-winning documentary series with no narrator and no agendas...	Himself	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1984	Movie Tarzan's South Yarra Adventure Ray Boseley's Swinburne graduate project	Unknown character	Not rated
1976	TV AACTA Awards The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards are a continuum of the AFI Awards, which have honoured...	Self	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2026	TV Oops I Bought a Pub Oops! I Bought A Pub is a new Australian television show premiering on May 2, 2026, following comedian Shane Jacobson...	Creator Creator	Not rated
2024	Movie The Roast of John Cleese Some of Australia's funniest performers pay homage to international comedy legend, John Cleese. Firing good-natured insults & jokes at the...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 3.7 / 10
2024	Movie The Roast of John Cleese Some of Australia's funniest performers pay homage to international comedy legend, John Cleese. Firing good-natured insults & jokes at the...	Writer Writing	TMDB 3.7 / 10
2022	Movie The Roast of Paul Hogan Aussie comedy legends roast an Aussie comedy Icon in this hilarious, no holds barred special.	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2020	Movie Westgate Bridge Disaster: The Untold Stories Fifty years after the collapse of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge that took with it the lives of 35 workers, their...	Director Directing	Not rated
2020	Movie Westgate Bridge Disaster: The Untold Stories Fifty years after the collapse of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge that took with it the lives of 35 workers, their...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
2018	Movie Brothers' Nest With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she dies, two...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	Movie Brothers' Nest With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she dies, two...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	Movie That’s Not My Dog! THAT’S NOT MY DOG! is a joyous comedy that celebrates our love of joke telling. The film centres around the...	Producer Production	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2018	Movie That’s Not My Dog! THAT’S NOT MY DOG! is a joyous comedy that celebrates our love of joke telling. The film centres around the...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2015	TV Open Slather The biggest names in Australian comedy are joining forces with a group of rising new stars for Open Slather, Foxtel’s...	Writer Writing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2014	Movie Hanging with Hoges Comedian Paul Hogan opens the door into his private and public life. It’s been 40 years since he first stepped...	Producer Production	Not rated
2014	Movie Hanging with Hoges Comedian Paul Hogan opens the door into his private and public life. It’s been 40 years since he first stepped...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2006	Movie Kenny From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Kenny tackles every septic...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2006	Movie Kenny From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Kenny tackles every septic...	Co-Producer Production	TMDB 6.2 / 10

How to Talk Australians: The Movie

2026

The Deb

2026 / TMDB 6.0

The Roast of John Cleese

2024 / TMDB 3.7

Ford v Holden

2023 / TMDB 6.3

The Roast of Paul Hogan

2022 / TMDB 8.0

The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee

2020 / TMDB 4.7

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Got a question about Shane Jacobson?

What are Shane Jacobson's most successful films?

Shane Jacobson is best known for his role in 'Kenny' which was a box office success. He also appeared in 'The Australian Wars', showcasing his talent in both comedic and dramatic roles.

Has Shane Jacobson won any awards?

What was Shane Jacobson's first film?

How many children does Shane Jacobson have?

What is Shane Jacobson's estimated net worth?

What genre is Shane Jacobson most associated with?

What notable television shows has Shane Jacobson appeared in?

What is a defining characteristic of Shane Jacobson's acting style?