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She graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts, with a major in drama.
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Following her graduation in 1988, Fey enrolled at the University of Virginia, where she studied playwriting and acting and was awarded the Pettway Prize. She anonymously wrote the newspaper's satirical column, The Colonel. Fey attended Upper Darby High School, where she was an honors student, a member of the choir, drama club, and tennis team, and co-editor of the school's newspaper, The Acorn. By middle school, she knew she was interested in comedy. She attended Cardington-Stonehurst Elementary School and Beverly Hills Middle School in Upper Darby. įey went by the nickname "Tina" at an early age. She grew up watching Second City Television and has cited Catherine O'Hara as a role model. Īt age 11, Fey read Joe Franklin's Seventy Years of Great Film Comedians for a school project about comedy. I actually have a very low level of Flintstones knowledge for someone my age. We were not allowed to watch The Flintstones though: my dad hated it because it ripped off The Honeymooners. My dad would let us stay up late to watch The Honeymooners. We would also watch Saturday Night Live, or Monty Python, or old Marx Brothers movies. I remember my parents sneaking me in to see Young Frankenstein. She has a brother, Peter, who is eight years older.
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According to a genealogical DNA test arranged by the television series Finding Your Roots, Fey's ancestry is 94% European, 3% Middle Eastern, and 3% from the Caucasus.
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Fey's father had English, German, Irish and Scottish ancestry one of her paternal ancestors was John Hewson, an English textile manufacturer who immigrated to the United States with the support of Benjamin Franklin, enabling Hewson to open a quilting factory in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fey's maternal grandmother, Vasiliki Kourelakou, left the Greek village of Petrina on her own and arrived in the United States in February 1921. Her mother, Zenobia "Jeanne" ( née Xenakes), is a retired brokerage employee born in Piraeus, Greece. Following her father's death, Fey established a scholarship fund in his name at his alma mater, Temple University, to support war veterans studying journalism. Her father, Donald Henry Fey, was a Korean War veteran, university administrator for the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University, and a grant proposal writer who raised $500 million for schools, hospitals, and public service agencies through proposals and direct mail appeals. 2.4 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2020)Įlizabeth Stamatina Fey was born on in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.In 2010, Fey was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, becoming the youngest recipient of the award. In 2008, the Associated Press gave Fey the AP Entertainer of the Year award for her Sarah Palin impression on SNL. Fey created the musical adaptation Mean Girls, which premiered on Broadway in 2018, and earned her a Tony Award nomination.įey has received numerous accolades, including nine Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and seven Writers Guild of America Awards.
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In 2015, she co-created the Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. In 2011, she released her memoir, Bossypants, which topped The New York Times Best Seller list for five weeks and garnered her a Grammy Award nomination. In the series, Fey starred as Liz Lemon, the head writer of a fictional sketch comedy series. After leaving SNL in 2006, Fey created the television series 30 Rock for Broadway Video, a sitcom loosely based on her experiences at SNL. In 2004, she co-starred in and wrote the screenplay for Mean Girls, which was adapted from the 2002 self-help book Queen Bees and Wannabes.
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She joined Saturday Night Live ( SNL) as a writer, later becoming head writer and a performer, appearing as co-anchor in the Weekend Update segment and, later, developing a satirical portrayal of 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in subsequent guest appearances. Fey is also known for her work in film, including Mean Girls (2004), Baby Mama (2008), Date Night (2010), Megamind (2010), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Sisters (2015), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016), Wine Country (2019), and Soul (2020).įey broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City. She is best known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (1997–2006) and for creating the comedy series 30 Rock (2006–2013, 2020) and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2020). Elizabeth Stamatina " Tina" Fey ( / f eɪ/ born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright.