Tina Fey

Actress Tina Fey attends the "Admission" premiere at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 on March 5, 2013, in New York.

Tina Fey, left, and Alec Baldwin in a scene from NBC's "30 Rock." The show ended in January 2013, after seven seasons.

Tina Fey accepts the award for outstanding female actor in a comedy series for "30 Rock" at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Jan. 27, 2013.

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Tina Fey, left, and Amy Poehler host the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel International Ballroom on Jan. 13, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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Actress Tina Fey and husband Jeff Richmond attend Entertainment Weekly and NBC's celebration of the final season of "30 Rock" on Oct. 3, 2012, in New York.

Actress Tina Fey attends the 2011 NBC Upfront at The Hilton Hotel on May 16, 2011, in New York.

(L-R) Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nominees Tina Fey, Martha Plimpton, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Poehler, Edie Falco, and Laura Linney onstage during the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on Sept. 18, 2011, in Los Angeles.

Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and the cast of "30 Rock" attend the shows 100th episode celebration party on March 10, 2011, in New York (Getty Images)

Actress Tina Fey and her husband, composer Jeff Richmond, attend the opening night of "We the People: America Rocks" on July 14, 2010, in New York.

Tina Fey spent a decade working for "Saturday Night Live" - first as a writer, then as head writer, then as head writer and performer, in skits such as those pictured (e.g. as the teenage Barbara Bush, the "Weekend Update" anchor, a character in Jane Austin, etc.) In 2006, she decided to quit the long-running show, and used the experience as inspiration for "30 Rock," which she writes, stars in and co-produces.

Joined by presenters Tina Fey, left, and Steve Martin, right, writer Dustin Lance Black holds the Oscar for best original screenplay for his work on "Milk" during the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in Los Angeles.

Tina Fey arrives at the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Tina Fey poses backstage with the award for Best Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical for "30 Rock" at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Actress Tina Fey and Sen. John McCain, the GOP presidential candidate, act in a "Saturday Night Live" skit on Oct. 1, 2008, in New York. The sharp political satire by Fey, Amy Poehler (Hillary Rodham Clinton) and Jason Sudeikis (Joe Biden) gave a much-needed ratings boost to "SNL" during the 2008 election.

Fey is equally a performer and a writer (here she is on stage as host of the annual Writers Guild Awards). She dreamed of being on "Saturday Night Live" from a young age - the show began when she was 5 years old.

Tina Fey, left, and Amy Poehler are are surrounded by photographers at the Governors Ball in Los Angeles, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008.

Alec Baldwin poses with Tina Fey with their awards for Outstanding Comedy Series "30 Rock" at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008, in Los Angeles.

Tina Fey holds her awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Comedy Series for her work on "30 Rock" backstage at the trophy table at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008, in Los Angeles.

Tina Fey and two of her "30 Rock" co-stars, Alec Baldwin, left, who plays a TV executive, and Tracy Morgan, right, who plays the star of the show-within-a-show, "TGS," are all veterans of "Saturday Night Live" (Baldwin as a frequent guest host) and Lorne Michaels, long-time executive producer of SNL, is the executive producer of "30 Rock"

Tina Fey met her husband Jeff Richmond when he was playing piano for comedy improv company in Chicago where she was involved. After she was hired at "Saturday Night Live" as a writer, he was hired as a composer for the show. They have a daughter, Alice Zenobia Richmond, who was born in 2005.

In 2002, Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon, then writers for "Saturday Night Live," showed off their Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy program at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Since leaving "SNL," Fey has earned multiple writing and acting nominations for "30 Rock," winning the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2008.

Years before she created "30 Rock," she told the New Yorker magazine that the backstage dynamics of "Saturday Night Live" inspired her: "If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs."

Tina Fey and Lindsay Lohan hug at a party for "Mean Girls" in 2004. Fey wrote the script and co-starred with Lohan in the movie, which she's said is based on her experiences in high school in a suburb of Philadelphia. "I was a mean girl," Fey has said. She remained "caustic" in college.

Tina Fey and daughter, Alice Zenobia Richmond, join members of the "30 Rock" cast, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, weatherman Al Roker, and others for the lighting of the 74th annual Rockefeller Center tree in November 2006.