Jan Hooks

Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia
Birthday: April 23, 1957

Southern-born, live-wire comedienne who, after regional stage and television experience and a stint as Tina, the tour guide at the Alamo in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" (1985), gained attention as an ideal cast regular on the iconoclastic NBC perennial, "Saturday Night Live". Best known for her outlandish yet on-target impersonations of figures from Tammy Faye Bakker and Diane Sawyer to Bette Davis and Ann-Margret, Hooks enjoyed personal triumphs when she essayed conflicting pairs of media notables (e.g. Ivana Trump and Marla Maples, Nancy Reagan …more

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Actor

The Show Formerly Known As The Martin Short Show
The Martin Short Show
Meg
Designing Women
Carlene Frazier Dobber
The Joe Piscopo Special
Saturday Night Live Goes Commercial

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Career Milestones

2005
Reprised role of Dixie Glick in "Jiminy Glick in La La Wood"
2001 to 2003
Cast as Martin Short's wife on Comedy Central's "Primetime Glick"
1998
Appeared in the film "Simon Birch" as Miss Leavey
1996 to 2000
Had recurring role as Vicki Dubcek on "3rd Rock From the Sun" (NBC)
1995
Returned to New York stage in A.R. Gurney's "Sylvia" (replacing Sarah Jessica Parker)