One of the highest-paid women in television, Elizabeth Stamatina “Tina” Fey. Forbes reported she earned $10 million in 2013, less than she made in 2010-11, likely due to the ending of her critically acclaimed comedy “30 Rock” in 2013. She tops the list of television actresses in marketability. Dhe broke into comedy first as a member of the Chicago improvisational comedy group The Second City before getting her big break in New York City. She put her comedic knack and writing to work as a writer for NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 1997 to 2006. Her wit lifted her to the top of that male-dominated organization, and she became the first female head writer in 1999, as well as a performer starting in 2000 through 2005. At SNL, she gave her own twist on current events as a co-anchor of the Weekend Update news segment. Life imitated art – and vice-versa – as she created the NBC television show ‘30 Rock,” which was inspired by her own SNL experience. Fey also put her stamp on American politics with a guest appearance back at SNL doing a spot-on impersonation of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in 2008. Again, Fey’s turn to autobiography paid off for her, financially, as her book of autobiographical, self-deprecating anecdotes, Bossypants, sold a million copies. The New York Times estimated her advance for that book was at $5 million. Included are tales of her life growing up in Upper Darby, Pa., with plenty of references to both the Greek and German sides within her (from her mother and German/Scottish father, respectively). She talks in the book too of feeling very much a minority in college at University of Virginia, but always completely at home in the world of theater people. Fey has written or starred in film comedies including “Mean Girls,” “Baby Mama,” “Date Night,” and “Megamind,” to name a few. Her television work has paid off in eight Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Gracie Allen Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Writers Guild of America Awards. She is married to composer and producer Jeff Richmond and has two daughters.