The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual formal ceremony and dinner at which the awards are presented is a major part of the film industry's awards season, which culminates each year with the Academy Awards.^[1]

The 1st Golden Globe Awards were held in January 1944 at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles. The 69th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 2011, were presented on January 15, 2012, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, where they have been held annually since 1961.^[2]

History[link]

The first Golden Globe Awards were held in 1944, at the 20th Century Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies would be held at various venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish a special honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as an international figure within the entertainment industry, the first award was presented to director and producer, Cecil B. DeMille. The official name of the award thus became the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced. In its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six (of the films Operation Bikini and Beach Party) and Donna Douglas (of television's The Beverly Hillbillies), respectively.

Revenues generated from the annual ceremony have enabled the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to donate millions of dollars to entertainment-related charities, as well as funding scholarships and other programs for future film and television professionals. The most prominent beneficiary being the Young Artist Awards, presented annually by the Young Artist Foundation, established in 1978 by long-standing Hollywood Foreign Press member, Maureen Dragone to recognize and award excellence of young Hollywood performers under the age of 18, and to provide scholarships for young artists who may be physically and/or financially challenged.^[3][4][5]

Ceremony[link]

The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars and the Grammy Awards. Until Ricky Gervais hosted the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards Ceremony in 2010, the award ceremony was one of two major Hollywood award ceremonies (the other being the Screen Actors Guild Awards) that did not have a regular host; every year a different presenter introduced the ceremony at the beginning of the broadcast. Gervais returned to host the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards in 2011, and the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards in 2012.^[6] The 2012 Golden Globe Awards' theme song was written by YOSHIKI, a member of the popular rock group X Japan.

2008 disruption[link]

On January 7, 2008, it was announced that due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, the 65th Golden Globe Awards would not be telecast live. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event and by actors, threatening to boycott the ceremony, rather than cross picket lines. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast.

NBC originally had exclusive broadcast rights to the ceremonies, but on January 11, HFPA President Jorge Camara announced there would be no restrictions placed on media outlets covering the January 13 press conference, announcing the winners at 6:00pm PST.^[7] As a result, E!, CNN, the TV Guide Network and KNBC-TV, the network's Los Angeles owned-and-operated affiliate, aired the 31-minute event, emanating from the Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel live, leaving NBC to fill the hour from 9:00–10:00pm ET with announcements, made after-the-fact by Access Hollywood hosts Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell.^[8] The remaining hours of programming, set aside for the ceremonies by the network, were filled with a special two-hour edition of Dateline, hosted by Matt Lauer, that included film clips, interviews with some of the nominees and commentary from comedienne Kathy Griffin and the panelists from Football Night in America.

Categories[link]

Motion picture awards[link]

• Best Motion Picture – Drama
• Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
• Best Director
• Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
• Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
• Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
• Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
• Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
• Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
• Best Screenplay
• Best Original Score
• Best Original Song
• Best Foreign Language Film
• Best Animated Feature Film (2006–present)
• Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures

Television awards[link]

Awarded since 1956:

• Best Drama Series
• Best Comedy Series
• Best Actor in a Television Drama Series
• Best Actor in a Television Comedy Series
• Best Actress in a Television Drama Series
• Best Actress in a Television Comedy Series
• Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
• Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
• Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
• Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
• Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television

Retired awards[link]

• Best Documentary Film • Last awarded in 1977 at the 34th Golden Globe Awards
• Best English-Language Foreign Film • Awarded from 1957 - 1973
• New Star of the Year – Actor • Last awarded in 1983 at the 40th Golden Globe Awards
• New Star of the Year – Actress • Last awarded in 1983 at the 40th Golden Globe Awards
• Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite – Female) • Awarded from 1950 to 1979^[9]
• Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite – Male) • Awarded from 1950 to 1979
• Best Film Promoting International Understanding (1945–63)^[10]

Superlatives[link]

In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight. However, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award – World Film Favorite Actor/Actress or Cecil B. DeMille Award – Barbra Streisand leads with 9 awards. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury and Alan Alda have six awards each. Behind them are Rosalind Russell, Sophia Loren and Jessica Lange with five wins. Streep also holds the record for most nominations with twenty-seven (as of the 2012 nominations) and Jack Lemmon is second with twenty-two.

Only four people have won two acting awards in the same year:

• Sigourney Weaver (1989)
  • Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey
  • Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Working Girl
• Joan Plowright (1993)
  • Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Enchanted April
  • Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film, Stalin
• Helen Mirren (2007)
  • Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, The Queen
  • Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film, Elizabeth I
• Kate Winslet (2009)
  • Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Revolutionary Road
  • Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, The Reader

Criticism[link]

1968-1974 NBC broadcast ban[link]

The HFPA has had a lucrative contract with NBC for decades,^[11] which began broadcasting the award ceremony locally in Los Angeles in 1958, then nationally in 1964. However, in 1968, the Federal Communications Commission claimed the show “misled the public as to how the winners were determined” (winners were determined by lobby; if winners did not attend the event then another name would be chosen) and admonished NBC for participating in the scandal. Subsequently, NBC refused to broadcast the ceremony from 1968 until after 1974.^[12][13]

Pia Zadora awarded 1981 "Newcomer-of-the-Year"[link]

In 1981, Pia Zadora won a Golden Globe in the category "Newcomer-of-the-Year" for her performance in Butterfly, over such competition as Elizabeth McGovern (Ragtime) and Kathleen Turner (Body Heat).^[14] Accusations were made that the Foreign Press Association members had been bought off.^[15] Zadora's husband, multimillionaire Meshulam Riklis, flew voting members to his casino, the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, which gave the appearance that they voted for Zadora to repay this. Riklis also invited voting members to his house for a lavish lunch and a showing of the film. He also spent a great deal on advertising.^[16] The film had not been released in the U.S. at the time of the awards,^[17] which should have made Zadora ineligible for an award associated with it.^[18] Furthermore, Zadora had made her film debut some 17 years earlier as a child performer in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.

[edit] 2011 The Tourist Best Musical/Comedy nominations

The nominations for the 2011 Globes drew initial skepticism, as the Foreign Press Association nominated The Tourist in its Best Musical/Comedy category, despite the critical failures of the film. The skepticism turned to outrage when rumors surfaced that Sony, the distributor of The Tourist had bribed Globes voters with an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas, culminating in a concert by Cher.^[19]

See also[link]

• List of Golden Globe Awards ceremonies
• List of Golden Globe Award winning films
• List of Golden Globe Award winners
• Young Artist Award

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Golden Globes website
• Awards listing at the Internet Movie Database
• Complete Downloadable List of Golden Globe Nominees and Winners

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Tina Fey
Fey at the premiere of Baby Mama in 2008.
Born	Elizabeth Stamatina Fey (1970-05-18) May 18, 1970 (age 42) Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	University of Virginia (BA)
Occupation	Actress, comedian, writer, producer
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	Jeff Richmond (2001–present)
Children	Alice Zenobia Richmond (b. 2005) Penelope Athena Richmond (b. 2011)
Signature	150px

Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey ( /ˈfeɪ/; born May 18, 1970)^[1] is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer, known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL), the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, and films such as Mean Girls (2004) and Baby Mama (2008).

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 the Weekend Update segment. In 2004 she adapted the screenplay Mean Girls in which she also co-starred. 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 in the 2010 comedy films Date Night and Megamind.

She has received seven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four 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. She was singled out as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008 by the Associated Press, which gave her its AP Entertainer of the Year award for her satirical portrayal of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a guest appearance on SNL.^[2] In 2010, Fey was the recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the youngest-ever winner of the award.^[3]

Early life[link]

Fey was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania – a township just west of Philadelphia. Her mother, Zenobia "Jeanne" (née Xenakes),^[4][5] is a brokerage employee of Greek descent,^[6] and her father, Donald Fey, is a university grant-proposal writer of half German and half Scottish descent.^[4][7][8] She has a brother, who is eight years older, named Peter.^[4][9]

Fey was exposed to comedy early. She has recalled:

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.^[10] I actually have a very low level of Flintstones knowledge for someone my age.^[11]

She also grew up watching Second City Television (SCTV), and has cited Catherine O'Hara as a role model.^[12]

Fey attended Cardington Elementary School and Beverly Hills Middle School in Upper Darby.^[13] By middle school, she knew she was interested in comedy, doing an independent-study project on the subject in eighth grade.^[10] Fey attended Upper Darby High School, where she was an honor student,^[14] a member of the choir, drama club, and tennis team, and co-editor of the school's newspaper.^[14][15] She also anonymously wrote the newspaper's satirical column, The Acorn.^[16] Following her graduation in 1988,^[13][17] Fey enrolled at the University of Virginia, where she studied playwriting and acting.^[18] She graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama.^[19]

Career[link]

[edit] Saturday Night Live (1997–2006)

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 writer Adam McKay, a former performer at Second City.^[6] She was hired as a writer^[20] for SNL following a meeting with SNL creator Lorne Michaels, and moved to New York.^[21] Fey told The New Yorker, "I’d had my eye on the show forever, the way other kids have their eye on Derek Jeter."^[6] Originally, Fey "struggled" at SNL.^[21] Her first sketch to air starred Chris Farley in a Sally Jessy Raphael satire.^[21] Fey went on to write a series of parodies, including one of ABC's morning talk show The View.^[22] She co-wrote the "Sully and Denise" sketches with Rachel Dratch,^[21] who plays one of the teens.^[22]

Fey played an extra in one of the episodes in 1998,^[23] and after watching herself, decided to diet^[24] 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."^[25] In 1999, McKay stepped down as head writer, which led Michaels to approach Fey for the position.^[21] She became SNL's first female head writer, a milestone she downplays.^[26]

In 2000, Fey began performing in sketches,^[6] and she and Jimmy Fallon became co-anchors of SNL's Weekend Update segment.^[27] Fey said she did not ask to audition, but that Michaels approached her.^[24][28] Michaels explained that there was "chemistry" between Fey and Fallon.^[28] Michaels, however, revealed that choosing Fey was "kind of risky" at the time.^[29] 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."^[30] 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".^[31] Robert Bianco of USA Today, however, commented that he was "not enamored" of the pairing.^[32]

In 2001, Fey and the writing staff won a Writers Guild of America Award for SNL's 25th anniversary special.^[6] 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.^[33]

The pairing of Fey and Fallon ended in May 2004 when Fallon last appeared as a cast member.^[34] He was replaced by Amy Poehler.^[35] It was the first time that two women co-anchored Weekend Update.^[36] Fey revealed that she "hired" Poehler as her co-host for the segment.^[37] 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".^[35]

The 2005–2006 season was her last; she thereafter departed to develop 30 Rock.^[38]

[edit] 30 Rock (2006–present)

Fey filming an episode of 30 Rock at Rockefeller Center in October 2007.^[39]

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.^[40] 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 primetime project to be produced by Broadway Video and NBC Universal.^[41] She began developing the pilot project under the working title Untitled Tina Fey Project.^[42] The pilot, directed by Adam Bernstein,^[43] 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.^[44] In October 2006, the pilot aired on NBC as 30 Rock. Although the episode received generally favorable reviews,^[45] it finished third in its timeslot.^[46]

The network renewed the series for a second season, which began in October 2007.^[47] The show's third season premiered on October 30, 2008. The premiere episode set records for the highest ratings of the series.^[48] In January 2009, NBC renewed 30 Rock for the 2009–2010 season.^[49]

In 2007, Fey received an Emmy Award^[50] nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series.^[51] The show itself won the 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series.^[52] In 2008, she won the Golden Globe,^[53] Screen Actors Guild,^[54] and Emmy awards all in the category for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.^[55] The following year, Fey again won the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award in the same categories,^[53][56] and was nominated for an Emmy Award.^[57] In early 2010, Fey received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress,^[58] and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Lead Actress.^[59] 30 Rock was renewed for the 2010–2011 season in March 2010.^[60] It will return for the 2011–2012 season, though due to Fey's pregnancy with her second child, the season premiere will be delayed until midseason.^[61] Fey once mentioned that her performance on the show is inspired by Julia Louis Dreyfus,^[62] and later used Dreyfus to play the stand-in for the character of Liz Lemon in flashback scenes during the live episode of the fifth season.

Feature films[link]

In 2002, Fey appeared in the surreal comedy Martin & Orloff.^[63] 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^[64] and on the non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman.^[65] The cast includes other past cast members of SNL including Tim Meadows, Ana Gasteyer, and Amy Poehler. The film received favorable reviews,^[66] and was a box office success, grossing US$129 million worldwide.^[67]

Fey with Amy Poehler at the premiere of Baby Mama in New York.

In a 2004 interview, Fey expressed that she would like to write and direct movies in which she has small parts.^[14] 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.^[68][69] In 2007, she was cast in the animated comedy film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters as the Aqua Teens' mother, a giant burrito.^[70]

Fey and former SNL castmate Amy Poehler starred in the 2008 comedy Baby Mama. The movie was written and directed by Michael 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.^[71] 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."^[72] The movie grossed over US$64 million at the box office.^[67]

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).^[73] In 2009, she appeared in The Invention of Lying,^[74] alongside Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, and Christopher Guest.^[75] Her next film role was in Shawn Levy's 2010 comedy Date Night,^[76] 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.^[77] Also in the same year, she voiced Roxanne Ritchie, a television reporter, in the DreamWorks animated film Megamind (2010).^[78] 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.^[67]

In January 2011, it was announced that Fey will star in an upcoming comedy/drama entitled Admission, based on the Jean Hanff Korelitz novel by the same name. The film will be directed by Paul Weitz.^[79]

Impersonation of Sarah Palin[link]

From September to November 2008, Fey made frequent guest appearances on SNL to perform a series of parodies of Republican 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".^[80] The sketch quickly became NBC.com's most-watched viral video ever, with 5.7 million views by the following Wednesday.^[81] Fey reprised this role on the October 4 show,^[82] 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.^[83] The following year Fey won an Emmy in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her impersonation of Palin.^[84] Fey returned to SNL in April 2010, and reprised her impression of Palin in one sketch titled "Sarah Palin Network".^[85] Fey once again did her impression of Palin when she hosted Saturday Night Live on May 8, 2011.^[86]

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."^[87]

Other work[link]

Fey at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International promoting Megamind.

In 1997, Fey and other members of The Second City provided voices for the pinball game Medieval Madness.

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.^[88][89] The production was well received by critics.^[90] 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".^[88] He concluded that the production "isn't about two women being funny. [...] Dratch and Fey are just funny. Period."^[88] One of the SNL sketches, "Sully and Denise", originated at Second City in Chicago.^[21]

On August 13, 2007, Fey made a guest appearance on the children's television series Sesame Street, in the episode, "The Bookaneers".^[91] She appeared as a guest judge on the November 25, 2007 episode of the Food Network program Iron Chef America.^[92] 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.^[93] She has also done commercials for American Express credit card in 2008, and Garnier Nutrisse hair color in 2012.^[94][95][96]

On February 23, 2008, Fey hosted the first episode of SNL after the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.^[97] For this appearance, she was nominated for an Emmy in the category of Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.^[98] 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.^[99]

On April 5, 2011, her book, a humorous autobiography entitled Bossypants, was released. It received a positive review from the New York Times.^[100]

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.^[101]

In the media[link]

Fey was ranked in the Hot 100 List at number 80 on Maxim magazine in 2002.^[102] She was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 2003,^[103] and one of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in 2007, 2008, and 2009.^{[104][105][106][107]} In 2007, Fey placed seventh on the Hot 100 List on AfterEllen.com.^[108] She repeated the appearance the following year, however, being voted as number one on the list.^[109]

In 2001, Entertainment Weekly named Fey as one of their Entertainers of the Year for her work on Weekend Update.^[110] She was named one of the magazine's Entertainers of the Year in 2007,^[111] and placed number two in 2008.^[112] In 2009, Fey was named as Entertainment Weekly's fifth individual in their 15 Entertainers of the 2000s list.^[113] 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.^[2] She has appeared on Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list of the 100 most powerful celebrities in 2008, 2009, and 2010, at No. 99, No. 86, and No. 90 respectively.^{[114][115][116]}

In 2007, the New York Post included Fey in New York's 50 Most Powerful Women, ranking her at number 33.^[117] 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 Time magazine.^[118][119] Fey's featured article for the 2009 list was written by 30 Rock co-star, Alec Baldwin.^[119] She was selected by Barbara Walters as one of America's 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008.^[120]

In September 2011, Tina Fey landed at the top of the Forbes magazine’s list of the highest-paid TV actresses.^[121]

Personal life[link]

Fey with husband Jeff Richmond in April 2010 at the premiere of Date Night

Fey met Richmond, now a composer on 30 Rock, at Chicago's Second City. They dated for seven years, before marrying in a Greek Orthodox ceremony on June 3, 2001.^[1] The couple has two daughters: Alice Zenobia Richmond (born September 10, 2005)^[122] and Penelope Athena Richmond (born August 10, 2011).^[123][124] In April 2009, Fey and Richmond purchased a US$3.4 million apartment on the Upper West Side in New York City.^[125]

A faint scar running across Tina Fey’s left cheek, the cause of which remained unexplained to the public until 2008, is the result of a violent cutting attack by a stranger in an alley behind her home when Fey was six years old. In her autobiographical book, she revealed that she was slashed by a man when she was six, but withheld specific details of the incident.^[126]

Charity work[link]

Her charity work includes support of Autism Speaks, an organization that sponsors autism research.^[127][128] In April 2008, she participated in Night of Too Many Stars, a comedy show benefit for autism education.^[129]

Fey is also a supporter of Mercy Corps, a global relief and development organization, in their campaign to end world hunger.^[130] Fey narrated a video for Mercy Corps's Action Center in New York City, describing hunger as a symptom of many wider world problems.^[131] She also supports the Love Our Children USA organization, which fights violence against children,^[132] who named her among their Mothers Who Make a Difference, in 2009.^[133] She was the 2009 national spokesperson for the Light the Night Walk, which benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.^[134]

In June 2010, it was announced she would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.^[135]

Detailed works[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

The following awards are categorized under the year they were announced (and not necessarily the year covered by the award ceremony).

References[link]