Jeffrey Nicholas Brown, born August 29, 1975 in Evanston, Chicago, Illinois, is an American actor who plays the role of Corbett Stackhouse on the HBO original series True Blood. Making his debut on the episode "The First Taste" in the series' first season, Jeffrey plays the role of a spirit. The son of Earl and Adele Stackhouse, the older brother of Linda Stackhouse, and the uncle of Hadley Hale, he married Michelle and they had two children, series' protagonist Sookie Stackhouse and her brother Jason. Playing a recurring role through the series' first, fifth and sixth seasons, Jeffrey meets an untimely demise in the 1990s, along with his wife. They were purportedly killed in a flash flood, however, in the Season 5 episode "We’ll Meet Again", Hadley tells Jason that his parents were killed by vampires. Jeffrey was a guest starring actor who was last seen on the Season 6 episode "Don't You Feel Me".