Tina Fey

Tina Fey is an American writer, producer, comedian and actress known for creating and writing television comedy as well as performing it. She began in improvisational comedy with The Second City in Chicago, then joined the staff of the NBC sketch series Saturday Night Live, where she served as head writer and as co-anchor of Weekend Update from 1997 to 2006. In 2006 she launched the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, which she created and starred in until 2013 and which brought her Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild honors. She went on to create further series, including Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt for Netflix and Mr. Mayor for NBC, and to executive produce Girls5eva. Beyond television she created the Broadway musical adaptation of Mean Girls, which premiered in 2018 and was later adapted as a 2024 musical film, and published the best selling memoir Bossypants in 2011. She is placed here for her creative leadership of television writers rooms and series rather than for her acting alone.