Tina Fey

Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey ( /ˈfeɪ/ ; born May 18, 1970)[2]  is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer, known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (1998–2006), the critically acclaimed NBC comedy series 30 Rock (2006–13), and such films as Mean Girls (2004), Baby Mama (2008), Date Night (2010),Admission (2013), and Muppets Most Wanted (2014).

Fey first broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City. She then joined SNL as a writer, later becoming head writer and a performer, known for her position as co-anchor in theWeekend Update segment. In 2004, she co-starred in and wrote the screenplay for Mean Girls, which was partly adapted from a book. After leaving SNL in 2006, she created the television series 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. In 2008, she starred in the comedy film Baby Mama, alongside former SNL co-star Amy Poehler. Fey next appeared alongside Steve Carell in the 2010 comedy film Date Night and with Will Ferrell in the animated film Megamind.

Fey has received eight Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, four Writers Guild of America Awards and has been nominated for a Grammy Award for her autobiographical book Bossypants, which topped the The New York Times Best Seller list for five weeks. In 2008, the Associated Press (AP) gave Fey the AP Entertainer of the Year award for her satirical portrayal of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a guest appearance onSNL.[3]  In 2010, Fey was the recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the youngest-ever winner of the award.[4]  On January 13, 2013, Fey hosted the 70th Golden Globe Awards with her long-time friend and fellow comedian,Amy Poehler. Their performance was critically acclaimed.[5]  The duo hosted again the following year to similar acclaim, generating the highest ratings for the annual ceremony in ten years.[6]



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[hide]  *1 Early life  ==Early life[ edit] == Fey was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania – a home rule township west of Philadelphia. Her mother, Jeanne (née Xenakes),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grounded_7-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref__8-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[8]  is a brokerage employee of Greek descent,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-heffernan_9-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[9]  and her father, Donald Fey, is a university grant-proposal writer of half German and half Scottish descent.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grounded_7-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[10] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-times_n_jmuko_11-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[11]  She has a brother, Peter, who is eight years older.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grounded_7-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2004_12-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[12]
 * 2 Career
 * 2.1 Saturday Night Live (1997–2006)
 * 2.2 30 Rock (2006–13)
 * 2.3 Feature films
 * 2.4 Impersonation of Sarah Palin
 * 2.5 Other work
 * 3 In the media
 * 4 Personal life
 * 4.1 Charity work
 * 5 Filmography
 * 5.1 Film
 * 5.2 Television
 * 6 Bibliography
 * 7 Awards and nominations
 * 8 References
 * 9 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">She was exposed to comedy early and has recalled: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">I remember my parents sneaking me in to see Young Frankenstein. We would also watch Saturday Night Live, orMonty 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: my dad hated it because it ripped off The Honeymooners.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-avclub_13-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[13]  I actually have a very low level of Flintstones knowledge for someone my age.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Whitty2004-04-25_14-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[14] <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Aged eleven, she read the 1981 Joe Franklin's Seventy Years of Great Film Comedians for a school project about comedy. She grew up watching Second City Television (SCTV), and has cited Catherine O'Hara as a role model.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Levine2007_15-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[15]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Fey attended Cardington-Stonehurst Elementary School and Beverly Hills Middle School in Upper Darby.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-walloffame_16-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[16]  By middle school, she knew she was interested in comedy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-avclub_13-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[13]  Fey attended Upper Darby High School, where she was an honor student,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-stein_17-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[17]  a member of the choir, drama club, and tennis team, and co-editor of the school's newspaper, The Acorn.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-stein_17-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[17] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-spitznagel_18-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[18]  She also anonymously wrote the newspaper's satirical column, The Colonel.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dunn2008_19-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[19]  Following her graduation in 1988,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-walloffame_16-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[16] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2004a_20-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[20]  Fey enrolled at the University of Virginia, where she studied playwriting and acting.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-kaplan_21-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[21]  She graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-queen_22-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[22] ==Career<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Saturday Night Live (1997–2006)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">While performing shows with The Second City in 1997, Fey submitted several scripts to NBC's variety show Saturday Night Live (SNL), at the request of its head writerAdam McKay, a former performer at Second City.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-heffernan_9-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[9]  She was hired as a writer<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Levin2001_23-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[23]  for SNL following a meeting with SNL creator Lorne Michaels, and moved to New York.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-observer_24-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[24]  Fey told The New Yorker, "I'd had my eye on the show forever, the way other kids have their eye on Derek Jeter."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-heffernan_9-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[9]  Originally, Fey "struggled" at SNL.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-observer_24-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[24]  Her first sketch to air starred Chris Farley in a Sally Jessy Raphael satire.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-observer_24-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[24]  Fey went on to write a series of parodies, including one of ABC's morning talk show The View.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-skewers_25-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[25]  She co-wrote the "Sully and Denise" sketches with Rachel Dratch,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-observer_24-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[24]  who plays one of the teens.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-skewers_25-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[25]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Fey played an extra in one of the episodes in 1998,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Booth2004_26-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[26]  and after watching herself, decided to diet<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-vogue_27-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[27]  and lost 30 pounds. She told The New York Times, "I was a completely normal weight, but I was here in New York City, I had money and I couldn't buy any clothes. After I lost weight, there was interest in putting me on camera."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-witchel_28-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[28]  In 1999, McKay stepped down as head writer, which led Michaels to approach Fey for the position.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-observer_24-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[24]  She became SNL's first female head writer that year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2000_29-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[29]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2000, Fey began performing in sketches,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-heffernan_9-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[9]  and she and Jimmy Fallon became co-anchors of SNL's Weekend Update segment.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2000_29-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[29]  Fey said she did not ask to audition, but that Michaels approached her.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-vogue_27-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[27] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ew_30-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[30]  Michaels explained that there was "chemistry" between Fey and Fallon.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ew_30-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[30]  Michaels, however, revealed that choosing Fey was "kind of risky" at the time.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-rk_31-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[31]  Her role in Weekend Update was well received by critics. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly wrote: "...Fey delivers such blow darts – poison filled jokes written in long, precisely parsed sentences unprecedented in Update history – with such a bright, sunny countenance makes her all the more devilishly delightful."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Tucker2001_32-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[32]  Dennis Miller, a former cast member of SNL and anchor of Weekend Update, was pleased with Fey as one of the anchors for the segment: "...Fey might be the best Weekend Update anchor who ever did it. She writes the funniest jokes".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Winters2003_33-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[33]  Robert Bianco of USA Today, however, commented that he was "not enamored" of the pairing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bianco2001_34-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[34]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2001, Fey and the writing staff won a Writers Guild of America Award for SNL's 25th anniversary special.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-heffernan_9-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[9]  The following year at the 2002 Emmy Awards ceremony, she and the writing team won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Neil2008_35-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[35]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The pairing of Fey and Fallon ended in May 2004 when Fallon last appeared as a cast member.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Neumaier2004_36-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[36]  He was replaced by Amy Poehler.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-red_eye_37-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[37]  It was the first time that two women co-anchored Weekend Update.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kennedy2004_38-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[38]  Fey revealed that she "hired" Poehler as her co-host for the segment.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-salon_39-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[39]  The reception to the teaming of Fey and Poehler was positive, with Rachel Sklar of the Chicago Tribune noting that the pairing "has been a hilarious, pitch-perfect success as they play-off each other with quick one-liners and deadpan delivery".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-red_eye_37-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[37]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The 2005–2006 season was her last; she thereafter departed to develop 30 Rock.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Klatell2006_40-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[40]  At the time she left, Fey had become the show's longest-serving Weekend Update anchor with a tenure of 117 episodes (a mark that would later be passed by her replacement, Seth Meyers). ===30 Rock (2006–13)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Main article: 30 RockFey filming an episode of30 Rock at Rockefeller Center in October 2007<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_a_41-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:9.60000038146973px;">[41] <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2002, Fey suggested a pilot episode for a situation comedy about a cable news network to NBC, who rejected it. The pilot was reworked to revolve around an SNL style series, and was accepted by NBC.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Poniewozik2006_42-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[42]  She signed a contract with NBC in May 2003, which allowed her to remain in her SNL head writer position at least through the 2004–2005 television season. As part of the contract, Fey was to develop a prime-time project to be produced by Broadway Video and NBC Universal.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-dev_2_43-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[43]  She began developing the pilot project under the working title Untitled Tina Fey Project.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-newyorker_44-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[44]  The pilot, directed by Adam Bernstein,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_b_45-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[45]  centered on the head writer of a variety show and how she managed her relationships with the show's volatile star and its executive producer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-dev_3_46-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[46]  In October 2006, the pilot aired on NBC as 30 Rock. Although the episode received generally favorable reviews,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Allan2007_47-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[47]  it finished third in its timeslot.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kissell2006_48-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[48]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The network renewed the series for a second season, which began in October 2007.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2007_49-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[49]  The show's third season premiered on October 30, 2008. The premiere episode set records for the highest ratings of the series.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Starr2008_50-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[50]  In January 2009, NBC renewed 30 Rock for the 2009–2010 season.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2009_51-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[51]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2007, Fey received an Emmy Award<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-52" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[52]  nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Gold2009_53-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[53]  The show itself won the 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kronfeld2007_54-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[54]  In 2008, she won the Golden Globe,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-golden_globes_55-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[55]  Screen Actors Guild,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Germain2008_56-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[56]  and Emmy awards all in the category for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Silverman2008_57-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[57]  The following year, Fey again won the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award in the same categories,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-golden_globes_55-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[55] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2009a_58-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[58]  and was nominated for an Emmy Award.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Neil2009_59-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[59]  In early 2010, Fey received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Van2010_60-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[60]  and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Lead Actress.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Puig2010_61-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[61]  30 Rock was renewed for the 2010–2011 season in March 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Stelter2010_62-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[62]  The series returned for the 2011–2012 season, though due to Fey's pregnancy with her second child, the season premiere was delayed until midseason.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-63" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[63]  Fey once mentioned that her performance on the show is inspired by Julia Louis-Dreyfus,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-64" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[64]  and later used Louis-Dreyfus to play the stand-in for the character of Liz Lemon in flashback scenes during the live episode of the fifth season. On May 11, 2012, it was announced that the show had been renewed for a seventh and final season, to premiere October 4, 2012, with 13 episodes. After receiving 13 Emmy Award nominations and two wins for this final season, 30 Rock ended its critically acclaimed run with 112 Emmy award nominations. It has been cited as one of the greatest TV series of all time<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-65" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[65]  and it is considered to have one of the greatest finales in television history.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hitfixreview_66-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[66] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-IndieWireReview_67-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[67] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HuffingtonPostReview_68-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[68] ===Feature films<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2002, Fey appeared in the surreal comedy Martin & Orloff.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Drucker2005_69-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[69]  She made her debut as writer and co-star of the 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls. Characters and behaviors in the movie are based on Fey's high school life at Upper Darby High School<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Otto2004_70-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[70]  and on the non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Grimm2004_71-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[71]  The cast includes other past cast members of SNL including Tim Meadows, Ana Gasteyer, and Amy Poehler. The film received favorable reviews,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_d_72-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[72]  and was a box office success, grossing US$129 million worldwide.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-earnings_73-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[73]

Fey (left) with Amy Poehler (right) at the premiere of Baby Mama in New York, April 23, 2008<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In a 2004 interview, Fey expressed that she would like to write and direct movies in which she has small parts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-stein_17-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[17]  In 2006, Fey worked on a movie script for Paramount Pictures, which was to feature Sacha Baron Cohen, by the name of Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill, based loosely on the true story of a Hasidic rock musician.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Freydkin2006_74-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[74] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nytimesbid_75-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[75]  In 2007, she was cast in the animated comedy filmAqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters as the Aqua Teens' mother, a giant burrito.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Piccalo2007_76-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[76]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">She received her SAG Card after appearing in Artie Lange's Beer League released in 2006, in which she was compelled to join for "... a thousand dollars".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-77" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[77]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Fey and former SNL castmate Amy Poehler starred in the 2008 comedy Baby Mama. The movie was written and directed byMichael McCullers. The plot concerns Kate (Fey), a business woman, who wants a child but, discovering she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant, decides to find a surrogate: Angie (Poehler), a white-trash schemer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schwarzbaum2008_78-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[78]  Baby Mama received mixed reviews, but many critics enjoyed Fey's performance. Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote: "Fey is a delight to watch throughout. Able to convey Kate's intentions and feelings through the simple looks and inflections, she never melodramatizes her situation; nor does her efficient, perfectionist side become overbearing."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-McCarthy2008_79-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[79]  The movie grossed over US$64 million at the box office.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-earnings_73-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[73]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Fey's projects after 2008 include her lending her voice to the character Lisa in the English-language version of the Japanese animated film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea(titled Ponyo for its U.S. release).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Turan2009_80-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[80]  In 2009, she appeared in The Invention of Lying,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2009c_81-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[81]  alongside Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, and Christopher Guest.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2008d_82-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[82]  Her next film role was in Shawn Levy's 2010 comedy Date Night,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grosz_83-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[83]  a feature that focuses on a married couple, played by Fey and Steve Carell, who go on a date; however, the night goes awry for the two.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2009d_84-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[84]  Also in the same year, she voiced Roxanne Ritchie, a television reporter, in the DreamWorks animated filmMegamind (2010).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ebert2010_85-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[85]  With a total worldwide gross of US$321 million, Megamind is Fey's most commercially successful picture to date. It earned US$173 million outside the U.S. and US$148 million domestically.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-earnings_73-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[73]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2013, Fey starred alongside Paul Rudd in the romantic comedy-drama film Admission, based on the Jean Hanff Korelitz novel by the same name. The film was directed by Paul Weitz.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_86-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[86]  Fey later starred in the 2014 comedy-drama This Is Where I Leave You, helmed by Date Night director Shawn Levy. As was the case withBaby Mama, although both of these films received generally mixed reviews, Fey's performances were well received by film critics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2008d_82-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[82] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2008d_82-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[82] ===Impersonation of Sarah Palin<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === See also: Saturday Night Live parodies of Sarah PalinNBC web promo for 2008 web video of Palin (Fey) and Clinton (Poehler) from NBC<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">From September to November 2008, Fey made frequent guest appearances on SNL to perform a series of parodies ofRepublican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. On the 34th season premiere episode, aired September 13, 2008, Fey imitated Palin in a sketch, alongside Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton. Their repartee included Clinton needling Palin about her "Tina Fey glasses".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Pilkington2008_87-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[87]  The sketch quickly became NBC's most-watched viral video ever, with 5.7 million views by the following Wednesday.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Roberts2010_88-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[88]  Fey reprised this role on the October 4 show,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTimes_89-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[89]  on the October 18 show where she was joined by the real Sarah Palin, and on the November 1 show where she was joined by John McCain and his wife Cindy. The October 18 show had the best ratings of any SNL show since 1994.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Holmwood2008_90-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[90]  The following year Fey won an Emmy in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her impersonation of Palin.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2009b_91-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[91]  Fey returned to SNL in April 2010, and reprised her impression of Palin in one sketch titled the "Sarah Palin Network".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Blas2010_92-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[92]  Fey once again did her impression of Palin when she hosted Saturday Night Live on May 8, 2011.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-93" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[93]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In December 2009, Entertainment Weekly put her impersonation on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, writing, "Fey's freakishly spot-on SNL impersonation of the wannabe VP (and her ability to strike a balance between comedy and cruelty) made for truly transcendent television."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Geier2009_94-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[94] ===Other work<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Fey at the premiere ofBaby Mama in 2008<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 1997, Fey and other members of The Second City provided voices for the pinball game Medieval Madness.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2000, Fey partnered with fellow SNL cast member Rachel Dratch in the Off Broadway two-woman show Dratch & Fey at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wsj_95-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[95] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Watson2000_96-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[96]  The production was well received by critics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pw_97-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[97]  Tim Townsend of The Wall Street Journal in review of Dratch & Fey, wrote that the fun part of watching them perform was "seeing how comfortable they are with each other".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wsj_95-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[95]  He concluded that the production "isn't about two women being funny. [...] Dratch and Fey are just funny. Period."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wsj_95-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[95]  One of the SNL sketches, "Sully and Denise", originated at Second City in Chicago.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-observer_24-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[24]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">On August 13, 2007, Fey made a guest appearance on the children's television series Sesame Street, in the episode, "The Bookaneers".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Walsh2007_98-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[98]  She appeared as a guest judge on the November 25, 2007, episode of the Food Network program Iron Chef America.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_c_99-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[99]  Fey has appeared in Disney's campaign "Year of a Million Dreams" as Tinker Bell, along with Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan and Gisele Bündchen as Wendy Darling.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2008a_100-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[100]  She has also done commercials for American Express credit card in 2008, andGarnier Nutrisse hair color in 2012.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Freydkin2008_101-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[101] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-102" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[102] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-103" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[103]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">On February 23, 2008, Fey hosted the first episode of SNL after the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2008b_104-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[104]  For this appearance, she was nominated for an Emmy in the category of Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2008c_105-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[105]  Fey hosted SNL for a second time on April 10, 2010, and for her appearance she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Porter2010_106-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[106]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">On April 5, 2011, her book, a humorous autobiography entitled Bossypants, was released. It received a positive review from the New York Times.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Maslin2011_107-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[107]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2011, Fey narrated The Secret Life of Girls, a two-hour-long radio documentary produced by The Kitchen Sisters. Fey introduced stories of women and girls from around the world, and also shared memories of her own girlhood and mother.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-108" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[108]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2012, Fey made her rapping debut on Childish Gambino (Donald Glover's music stage name)'s mixtape named "Royalty". Glover is a former writer on 30 Rock, on which he worked with Fey. She was also featured in the iCarly episode "iShock America" as herself.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Fey is serving as executive producer for two upcoming sitcoms - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt for NBC<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-109" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[109]  and Cabot College for Fox.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-110" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[110] ==In the media<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2002, Fey was ranked in the Hot 100 List at number 80 on Maxim magazine,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-believerint_111-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[111]  which used photos taken earlier by Rolling Stone calling her "the thinking man's sex symbol".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Yahoo_voices_112-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[112]  She was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 2003,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins2003_113-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[113]  and one of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in 2007, 2008, and 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2007a_114-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[114] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Nichols2008_115-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[115] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2009e_116-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[116] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2007b_117-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[117]  In 2007, Fey placed seventh on the Hot 100 List on AfterEllen.com.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2007c_118-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[118]  She repeated the appearance the following year, being voted as number one on the list.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mucha2008_119-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[119]

Fey at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International promotingMegamind<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2001, Entertainment Weekly named Fey as one of their Entertainers of the Year for her work on Weekend Update.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Baldwin2001_120-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[120]  In 2007, she was named one of the magazine's Entertainers of the Year,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Shaw_121-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[121]  and placed number two in 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Armstrong2008_122-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[122]  In 2009, Fey was named as Entertainment Weekly's fifth individual in their 15 Entertainers of the 2000s list.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Armstrong_123-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[123]  In 2013, Entertainment Weekly crowned Fey as "The Once and Future Queen" (an allusion to The Once and Future King) in their feature on "Women Who Run TV," calling her "the funniest woman in the free world." EW quoted Mindy Kaling as saying, "I always feel unoriginal bringing up Tina as my inspiration, but she's everyone's inspiration for a reason." The column also quoted praise by Zooey Deschanel and Lena Dunham.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-124" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[124]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The newspaper editors and broadcast producers of the Associated Press voted Fey the AP Entertainer of the Year as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008, citing her impression of Sarah Palin on SNL.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-san_fran_3-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[3] She has appeared on Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list of the 100 most powerful celebrities in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 at No. 99, No. 86, No. 90, No. 92, and No. 79 respectively.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Wasden2008_125-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[125] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2009f_126-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[126] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2010_127-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[127] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-128" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[128] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-129" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[129]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2007, the New York Post included Fey in New York's 50 Most Powerful Women, ranking her at number 33.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Standtmiller2007_130-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[130]  Fey was among the Time 100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2007 and 2009, as selected annually by Timemagazine.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Poniewozik2007_131-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[131] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-time_2009_132-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[132]  Fey's featured article for the 2009 list was written by 30 Rock co-star, Alec Baldwin.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-time_2009_132-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[132]  She was selected by Barbara Walters as one of America's 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dimond2008_133-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[133]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In September 2011, Fey landed at the top of the Forbes magazine's list of the highest-paid TV actresses.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-134" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[134]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In June 2010, it was announced she would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schneider2010_135-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[135] ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Fey with husband Jeff Richmond in April 2010 at the premiere of Date Night<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 1994, two years after she joined Chicago's Second City improvisational theatre troupe, she began dating Jeff Richmond, a piano player who later became Second City's musical director and then a composer on 30 Rock. They married in a Greek Orthodox ceremony on June 3, 2001.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-People.C2.A0.E2.80.94_Bio_2-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[2]  They have two daughters: Alice Zenobia Richmond (born September 10, 2005)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Reardanz2005_136-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[136]  and Penelope Athena Richmond (born August 10, 2011).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-People2011_137-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[137] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Peterson2005_138-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[138]  In April 2009, Fey and Richmond purchased a US$3.4 million apartment on the Upper West Side in New York City.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Rovzar2009_139-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[139]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Fey has a scar a few inches long on the left side of her chin and cheek, the cause of which remained unexplained to the public until a 2008 Vanity Fair profile by Maureen Dowd,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-140" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[140]  and subsequently in her autobiographical book, where she revealed "During the spring semester of kindergarten, I was slashed in the face by a stranger in the alley behind my house."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-141" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[141] ===Charity work<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Her charity work includes support of Autism Speaks, an organization that sponsors autism research.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_g_142-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[142] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2007d_143-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[143]  In April 2008, she participated in Night of Too Many Stars, a comedy benefit show for autism education.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Freydkin2008a_144-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[144]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Fey is also a supporter of Mercy Corps, a global relief and development organization, in their campaign to end world hunger.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mercy2008_145-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[145]  Fey narrated a video for Mercy Corps's Action Center in New York City, describing hunger as a symptom of many wider world problems.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hajela2008_146-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[146]  She also supports the Love Our Children USA organization, which fights violence against children,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Madigan2009_147-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[147]  who named her among their Mothers Who Make a Difference, in 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ordona2010_148-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[148]  She was the 2009 national spokesperson for the Light the Night Walk, which benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ref_2009g_149-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[149] ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Film<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Television<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Fey, Tina (2011). Bossypants. Reagan Arthur Books. ISBN 978-0316056861.