Tina Fey is an American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer. She was born on May 18, 1970.
Biography and Career
Tina Fey was born with the name Elizabeth Stamatina on born May 18, 1970 Upper Darby, Pennsylvania,United States. She is the daughter of Zenovia Jeanne a brokerage employee and Donald Fey, a university grant proposal writer of German and Scottish ancestry. She has a brother, who is eight years older, named Peter.
She graduated in 1992 from the University of Virginia, Fey moved to Chicago to take classes at the improvisational comedy group The Second City, where she became a featured player in 1994. Three years later, Fey became a writer for the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. She was promoted to the position of head writer in 1999.
The following
year, Fey was added to the cast of SNL. During her time there, she was the co anchor of the shows Weekend Update segment. After leaving SNL in 2006, she created her own television series called 30 Rock, a situation comedy loosely based on her experiences at SNL. In the series, Fey portrays the head writer of a fictional sketch comedy series.
Fey made her film debut as writer and co star of the teen comedy movie Mean Girls in 2004. In 2008 she starred in the comedy film Baby Mama, alongside Amy Poehler. In 2009, Fey won an Emmy Award for her satirical portrayal of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a guest appearance on SNL.
Tina Fey is among the famous and successful American actress, comedienne, producer and writer. For her great contribution she has received seven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards and four Writers guild of America Awards.
She was singled out as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008 by the Associated Press, who gave her their AP Entertainer of the Year award.
Fey married Jeff Richmond, composer on 30 Rock. They have a daughter, Alice Zenobia Richmond.
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Birth Name: Elizabeth Stamatina Fey
Birth: May 18, 1970
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She is famous because of her contribution to the American film industry as an actress, writer, producer and comedienne.
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