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Saturday Night Live's head writer Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born in 1970 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. After graduating from the University of Virginia, she moved to Chicago where she joined Second City and ImprovOlympic. In 1997, SNL recruited her as a writer, and she stepped onto the SNL stage three years later.

In 1999, Fey was named writing supervisor, making her the first female head writer in the show's 25-year history. Recurring sketches Fey has penned include the biting satires of "The View" and "Sully and Denise" featuring Jimmy Fallon and Rachel Dratch as the Bostonian teens. Fey also served as head writer for the Emmy Award winning special "Saturday Night Live -The 25th Anniversary." Fey has won much acclaim for her work - including being named one of Entertainment Weekly's 2001 Entertainers of the Year - for her work on the revitalized "Weekend Update."

2004 saw the release of the movie "Mean Girls," which Fey wrote and starred in. The movie, starring Lindsay Lohan, was adapted from Rosalind Wiseman's much-talked-about book, "Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Adolescence."

Other ventures included the critically praised sketch comedy show "Dratch & Fey" with fellow SNLer Rachel Dratch at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City in 2000, which was dubbed "the funniest thing to be found on any New York comedy stage this summer" by Time Out New York.
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