Maarja Jakobson (born 8 December 1977) is an Estonian television, stage and film actress whose career began in the late 1990s.

Maarja Jakobson was born in Tartu in 1977. She is a distant relative of the 19th-century writer and politician Carl Robert Jakobson, who played a key role in the Estonian national awakening. In 1995 she graduated from Tartu Secondary School No. 15 (now Tartu Descartes Lyceum) and enrolled at the University of Tartu to study German for a year before entering the Performing Arts Faculty of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn in 1996 to study acting under theatre pedagogue and director Ingo Normet, graduating in 2000. Among her classmates in the graduating class were actors Kersti Heinloo, Margus Prangel, Eva Püssa, Katrin Pärn, Tambet Tuisk, Piret Simson and directors Urmas Lennuk, Tiit Ojasoo and Vahur Keller.

In 2002 she graduated with distinction from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with a master's degree in theatre and drama. She had spent the previous year studying at the Berlin University of the Arts and gathering material for her master's thesis.

In 1998, while still a student at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Jakobson was cast as Jane Peterson in the long-running Estonian Television (ETV) drama series "Õnne 13"; Jakobson has played the role in the series for more than twenty years. In 1999 she made her feature film debut in a small role in the science fiction adventure film "Kass kukub käppadele" for Exitfilm.