Tina Fey (born Elizabeth Stamatina Fey; May 18, 1970) is an American writer, comedian, actress, and producer. She has won five Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a SAG Award. Fey is best known for her work on Mean Girls, Saturday Night Live, her impersonation of Alaskan Governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as well as and her work on 30 Rock, a situation comedy loosely based on her experiences at Saturday Night Live. On December 1, 2008, TV Guide reported that Fey was selected by Barbara Walters as one of America's "10 most fascinating people of 2008". Walters' special aired on ABC on December 4, 2008.
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Tina Fey (born Elizabeth Stamatina Fey; May 18, 1970) is an American writer, comedian, actress, and producer. She has won five Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a SAG Award. Fey is best known for her work on Mean Girls, Saturday Night Live, her impersonation of Alaskan Governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as well as and her work on 30 Rock, a situation comedy loosely based on her experiences at Saturday Night Live. On December 1, 2008, TV Guide reported that Fey was selected by Barbara Walters as one of America's "10 most fascinating people of 2008". Walters' special aired on ABC on December 4, 2008.
Fey became a writer on SNL in 1997. She was promoted to the position of head writer in 1999. She was added to the cast of SNL in 2000. After leaving SNL in 2006, Fey created her own television series called 30 Rock. In the series, she portrays Liz Lemon, the head writer of TGS with Tracy Jordan, a fictional sketch comedy series. In early 2008, she starred in the movie Baby Mama, alongside Amy Poehler.

Early life
Fey was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, the daughter of Zenobia "Jeanne" (née Xenakes), a brokerage employee, and Donald Fey, a university grant proposal-writer. Fey's father is of German and Scottish ancestry and her mother of Greek ancestry.
Fey was exposed to comedy early. She recalls:

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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: my dad hated it because it ripped off The Honeymooners. I actually have a very low level of Flintstones knowledge for someone my age.
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She also grew up watching SCTV and includes Catherine O'Hara among her role models.
Fey attended Cardington Elementary School and Beverly Hills Middle School in Upper Darby. 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.
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