Renae Jacobs was born February 1, 1957, in Lansing, Michigan, moving to Los Angeles in the early 1980s to pursue a career as a voice actress.

The first day Rosen made it clear he didn't approve of her for the role, and had waited to show her audition after exhausting all the others.

I felt that she should be a very strong character with very good convictions, she should be a loyal friend; she should be serious about her work and she wanted to be taken seriously, not just looked at as another pretty face.

[1] In June 2014, it was announced that Jacobs would guest-star on season three of Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[2] She played April's long-lost mother in the episode "Buried Secrets"[3] who was, in truth, a Kraang creature that had been infused with the human DNA of the real Mrs. O'Neil as an infiltration experiment.