Casar Jacobson (born November 8, 1985) is a Norwegian-Canadian actress, UN disability rights campaigner and former beauty pageant titleholder. She has been a disability, equality and gender rights activist, and a UN Women Youth Champion. She has also been a successful pageant contestant, winning Miss Canada Globe.
Early life and education Cäsar Jacobson was born in 1985 and grew up on a farm. According to her own account, Jacobson was born hard of hearing, lost the hearing in her right ear in the mid-2000s, and became completely deaf around 2012-2013. She later received a cochlear implant and learned to communicate using American Sign Language. She later lived in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Pageantry Casar began modeling and competing in pageants in 2008, and in 2012 became the face of the clothing brand Bellissima Style's spring/summer campaign. She competed for Miss Sun and Salsa, Miss Calgary, Canadas Sexiest Girl and in 2012, representing Vancouver, British Columbia, she received the most audience votes on the pageant's opening night and placed in the top 20 in Miss Universe Canada after failing to place in 2011. In 2013 she won the title Miss British Columbia Globe 2012/2013. After that, she became Miss Canada Globe 2013. She traveled to Albania to compete in the Miss Globe pageant, in which she was awarded the title of "Miss Peace". Casar has been romantically linked to a supernatural producer Jim Michaels since 2017.
Acting career Jacobson appeared in the television series The Murders (2019), in which she played Emily Harris, and ABC's The Good Doctor (2020). Her film work includes Bomb City (2017), Talk to the Hands (2019), and the short film "Came with Cuffs" (2021). She is known for portraying deaf characters.
Advocacy and public profile Jacobson became involved in disability and gender-equality advocacy following her hearing loss. In 2017, she served as a gender-equality spokesperson for UN Global Compact Canada and participated in a United Nations panel for International Women’s Day that March. She was also identified by UN Women as a Youth Champion and participated in the Youth Forum associated with the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. In an interview published by UN Women, Jacobson discussed access to technology for women with disabilities and said she was working with partners on non-invasive technology intended to restore hearing.
In 2017, Jacobson became a brand ambassador for the NUGUNA Neckband, a wearable device developed by South Korean company UFirst that alerts users with hearing loss to sounds through vibration. The company said that Jacobson was selected in connection with her own hearing disability. Later that year, she was quoted by ‘’Vice’’ discussing accessibility problems in smart cities, including the reliance of airports on audible announcements and barriers encountered by deaf residents and travellers.
Jacobson’s public profile during this period also included commercial and beauty-industry activities. In a 2014 review published under her name, she stated that she had undergone liposculpture and breast augmentation at Partington Plastic Surgery in Kirkland, Washington. Jacobson linked the procedures both to personal confidence and to what she described as a “competitive edge” in pageantry and on-camera work.
Jacobson was also associated with Kyäni, a nutritional-supplement company operating through network or multi-level marketing. Kyäni described itself as a “global network marketing company”, while Canadian trademark filings for its products state that they were marketed and sold through multi-level-marketing distributors.
Jacobson later completed the Saint Elizabeth Home Health Care Assistant program and said that she aspired to become a physician. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she was among essential workers in Vancouver profiled as part of the ‘‘Humans of Support’’ photography project.
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2014 Behind the Dress Herself Documentary short 2017 Bomb City Officer Denny's Wife Uncredited 2021 Came with Cuffs Siyah Short film 2022 Talk to the Hands Emma's Deaf Co-worker Post-production
Television Year Title Role Notes 2019 The Murders Emily Harris Episode 5: "Toxic" 2020 The Good Doctor Bartender Season 3 episode 18: "Heartbreak" Lights! Camera! Signs! Herself Documentary short Filming
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