Elizabeth
Stamatina "Tina" Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an
American writer, comedian and actress. Fey currently
co-produces, writes and stars in the television program
30 Rock, a sitcom loosely based on her experiences at
Saturday Night Live.
Career: Tina Fey was born in Upper Darby,
Pennsylvania. After Fey graduated from the University of
Virginia with a B.A. in Drama in 1992, she moved to
Chicago, getting a day job at a residential YMCA to take
night classes at The Second City. She made what she
later described as an "amateurish" attempt at
stand-up comedy, and learned that the key to
improvisation was to "focus entirely on your
partner. You take what they're giving you and use it to
build a scene."
By 1994 she was invited to join the cast of The Second
City, where she performed in the Jeff Award-winning
revue Paradigm Lost. She is also a veteran of The
ImprovOlympic.
Saturday Night Live: With then-head writer Adam
McKay's help, Fey became a writer for NBC's Saturday
Night Live (SNL) in 1997. By 1999, Fey was SNL's first
female head writer, a milestone she downplays by
pointing out that the show has had few head writers.
As co-head writer of SNL's 25th anniversary special, Fey
won a 2001 Writers Guild of America Award. She and the
writing staff also won a 2002 Emmy Award for their work
on the show.
In September 2005, she went on maternity leave after
giving birth to a daughter, Alice Zenobia Richmond. Her
Weekend Update role was covered by Horatio Sanz for
several weeks before her return to the show on October
22, 2005, at which time she noted:
"I had to get back to work. NBC has me under
contract; the baby and I only have a verbal
agreement.", Fey confirmed during a July 2006
Tonight Show appearance that she would not be returning
to SNL for its 2006-7 season.
30 Rock: Fey developed a sitcom, 30 Rock, for
NBC's fall 2006 schedule. The show is produced by NBC
and Broadway Video, with Lorne Michaels and two former
producers of The Tracy Morgan Show, David Miner, who is
also her manager at 3 Arts, and Joann Alfano. She also
writes and stars in the sitcom, said to be based on her
experiences at SNL. The show's title is a reference to
30 Rockefeller Plaza, where SNL is produced.
Similarities between 30 Rock and Studio 60 on the Sunset
Strip led to speculation that only one of the two shows
would be picked up. Alec Baldwin, who plays 30 Rock's
Jack Donaghy, said "I’d be stunned if NBC picked
up both shows. And ours has the tougher task, as a
comedy, because if it’s not funny, that’s it."
Kevin Reilly, the president of NBC Entertainment, was
supportive of Fey, describing it as a "high-class
problem":
“ I just can't imagine the audience would look at both
shows, choose one and cancel the other out. In some
ways, why is it any different than when there have been
three or four cop shows on any schedule, or Scrubs and
ER, which are totally very different?”
Evidence of the overlapping subject matter between the
shows (as well as the conflict between them) is the fact
that Aaron Sorkin, the creator of Studio 60, asked Lorne
Michaels to allow him to observe SNL for a week, a
request Michaels denied.
“ It’s just bad luck for me that in my first attempt
at prime time I’m going up against the most powerful
writer on television. I was joking that this would be
the best pilot ever aired on Trio. And then Trio got
cancelled.”
In spite of the overlap in subject matter, it was
announced on May 15, 2006, that NBC had picked up both
shows.
The show debuted to mostly positive reviews; however,
ratings for its original timeslot on Wednesdays at 8 PM
were weak. Rather than cancel the show, NBC moved the
show into a revamped Thursday Must See TV comedy lineup
at the end of November sweeps. After its first episode
in its new Thursday 9:30 PM timeslot on November 30,
2006, the network picked up the show for the entire
season.
Other work: In 1997 Tina recorded the voices for
the British and German princesses for Williams'
"Medieval Madness" pinball machine.
She partnered with fellow cast member Rachel Dratch in
the critically acclaimed two-woman show Dratch & Fey
at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York
City, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado,
and the Chicago Improv Festival. Lorne Michaels saw her
at one of the performances, which led to her becoming
the co-anchor of SNL's Weekend Update.
She also appeared in Martin & Orloff, a surreal
comedy which premiered at Austin's SXSW. She was ranked
#80 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002.
Fey wrote the script and co-starred in the 2004 movie
Mean Girls. Characters and behaviors in the movie are
based on Fey's high school life[ at Upper Darby High
School and on the non-fiction book Queen Bees and
Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip,
Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence by
Rosalind Wiseman. The cast includes other present and
past cast members of SNL including Tim Meadows, Ana
Gasteyer, and Amy Poehler.
As of April 2006, Fey is working on a script for a
Paramount Pictures film by the name of Curly Oxide and
Vic Thrill that is said to be based loosely on the true
story of a Hasidic rock musician.
Slated for 2008 is Baby Mama, Fey's collaboration with
former Saturday Night Live castmate Amy Poehler. The
plot revolves around a business woman, Fey, who wants a
child, but is busy with a career, and decides to find a
surrogate (Poehler).
Personal life: Fey was born in Upper Darby,
Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia to a Greek
American mother and a father of German and Scottish
descent. Her brother, Peter, remembers a drawing she did
when she was about seven: it showed people holding
hands, walking down the street with wedges of Swiss
cheese. The caption read, "What a friend we have in
cheeses!"
Fey was exposed to comedy early, saying: “ I remember
my parents sneaking me in to see Young Frankenstein. We
would also watch Saturday Night Live, or Monty Python or
old Marx Brothers movies. My dad would let us stay up
late to watch The Honeymooners. We were not allowed to
watch The Flintstones, though, which my dad hated
because it ripped off The Honeymooners. I actually have
a very low level of Flintstones knowledge for someone my
age. ”
Her dream to entertain first was at Philadelphia
Phillies baseball games, as she wanted to become a ball
girl.
Fey attended Cardington Elementary School and Beverly
Hills Middle School. By middle school she knew she was
interested in comedy, even doing an independent study
project on the subject in eighth grade. She graduated
from Upper Darby High School in 1988.
Tina Fey is married to Jeff Richmond, a composer on SNL.
They met before their jobs on SNL and dated for seven
years before marrying in a Greek Orthodox, ceremony on
June 3, 2001. They have a daughter, Alice Zenobia
Richmond, who was born on September 10, 2005.
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