Jan Hooks Bio
Jan Hooks real name Janet Vivian was an American actress and comedian, best known for her work on Saturday Night Live, where she was a repertory player from 1986 to 1991, and continued making cameo appearances until 1994.
Her subsequent work included a regular role on the final two seasons of Designing Women, a recurring role on 3rd Rock from the Sun and a number of other roles in film and television including on Tina Fey’s NBC’s Show 30 Rock.
Jan Hooks Age
Jan was born on April 23, 1957, and died on October 9, 2014, at the age of 57 years old.
Jan Hooks Family/Life
Hooks was born and raised in Decatur, Georgia, where she attended Canby Lane Elementary School and Towers High School. In 1974, she moved to Fort Myers, Florida, her junior year when her father, a Sears employee, was transferred.
At this point, Hooks attended Cypress Lake High School and made her stage debut in a high school play and graduated in 1975. She attended Edison State College where she majored in Theatre but opted to leave before completion, to pursue acting full time.
Jan Hooks Career
She began her career as a member of the Los Angeles-based comedy troupe The Groundlings and in an Atlanta nightclub act called The Wits End Players.
From 1980 to 1981, she appeared in Tush on Ted Turner’s television station WTBS, which eventually became TBS. She gained notice in the early 1980s on the HBO comedy series Not Necessarily the News.
Hooks made guest appearances on Comedy Break with Mack and Jamie in the mid-1980s.
Hooks was considered for SNL in 1985 but was passed over by the show’s producers in favor of Joan Cusack. After the show’s 1985–1986 season was deemed a rating disaster and put on the chopping block for cancellation, returning producer Lorne Michaels offered Hooks a contract in 1986, along with new recruits Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman, among others.
They helped put the show back in the national spotlight. Her characters included Candy Sweeney of “The Sweeney Sisters”.
She performed notable impressions of Bette Davis, Ann-Margret, Betty Ford, Nancy Reagan, Sinéad O’Connor, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore, Tammy Faye Bakker, Kathie Lee Gifford, Kitty Dukakis, Diane Sawyer and Hillary Clinton.
Tiring of the stress of performing on a live show, Hooks left SNL in 1991 after being asked by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason to replace Jean Smart on the CBS sitcom Designing Women. Hooks played the role of Carlene Dobber for the final two seasons of the show. She continued to make occasional appearances on SNL through 1994, usually playing Hillary Clinton.
According to a 2014 Grantland article about her career and death, Hooks’ combination of anxiety about acting and generally laidback approach to seeking out work led to her often turning down both prestigious auditions and lucrative acting roles.
Tina Fey commented after her death that she was angry that Hooks didn’t have a more successful career but another friend stated that Hooks didn’t have doors slammed in her face and often made no efforts to seek out work.
She appeared in several movies, starred as Dixie Glick in the series Primetime Glick, and the movie Jiminy Glick in Lalawood. She had a recurring role as the trashy Vicki Dubcek on 3rd Rock from the Sun, which earned Hooks an Emmy Award nomination.
Hooks guest-starred on two Matt Groening-produced cartoons for the FOX Network: six episodes of The Simpsons between 1997 and 2002, as Apu’s wife Manjula and in Futurama.
appeared in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure as a know-it-all tour guide at the Alamo and made a cameo appearance in the 1992 movie Batman Returns as Jen, the Penguin’s image consultant during his campaign to become Mayor of Gotham City.
She made two appearances on 30 Rock in 2010 playing Jenna Maroney’s mother, Verna, which ultimately were the last live-action spots she ever did. She guest-starred in a 2013 episode of The Cleveland Show called “Mr. and Mrs. Brown”, which was her final acting job
Jan Hooks Funeral/Death
Hooks died on October 9, 2014, at her home in Woodstock, New York, at the age of 57 from throat cancer. Her remains were interred in Northview Cemetery in Cedartown, Georgia.
The Simpsons episode “Super Franchise Me” memorialized her on October 12, 2014, with her longtime character Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon honored during the credits.
Jan Hooks Grave
Northview Cemetery, Cedartown, GA
Jan Hooks Batman Returns
Max Shreck hired Josh and Jen, his image consultants, to give The Penguin a makeover, so that he could credibly stand for mayor of Gotham City, as part of Max’s plan to build a new power plant.
Jen attempted to put gloves on the Penguin’s flippers, whilst advising her boss, Max, that research had demonstrated that “voters like fingers”. All the while, the Penguin was grunting, presumably, because he lusted after Jen, one of the first, maybe only, women who had ever shown any type of ‘interest’ in him.
Jen laughed at her colleague Josh’s insensitive joke to The Penguin: “Not a lot of reflective surfaces down in the sewer, huh?”
And continued to laugh at The Penguin’s apparent non-sequitur: “Still, it could be worse! My nose could be gushing blood!” although it wasn’t clear if Jen genuinely found The Penguin funny or was simply humoring him.
Unfortunately, the laughter stopped as soon as The Penguin demonstrated what he meant by ‘it could be worse’, by proceeding to viciously bite Josh’s nose, which left Jen visibly aghast.
Jen immediately attended to Josh and began swabbing at his bleeding nose, whilst Max and The Penguin continued to discuss their plans to make the Penguin mayor.
Unfortunately for Jen, The Penguin was still clearly distracted by his lust for her. In response to Max suggesting that they bring down the current mayor, Roscoe Jenkins, so that The Penguin may supplant him and thus ‘fill the void’, the Penguin made a creepy reference to Jen: “I’d like to fill her void” whilst staring at her bottom, which was clearly audible enough to leave Jen visibly disturbed and repulsed
Jan Hooks Simpsons
The Simpsons voice actress Jan Hooks dies aged 57
The actress was the original voice of Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon and brought the character to life for six episodes between 1997 and 2002. Her agent Lisa Lieberman confirmed Ms. Hooks died in New York yesterday but no cause of death was given.
The comic played Manjula for a number of episodes on The Simpsons before she was later replaced by Tress MacNeille.
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane posted on Twitter: “Jan Hooks still stands out as one of the funniest cast members in SNL history. “Very sorry to read about her passing.”
While Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler tweeted: “Jan Hooks was an incredibly talented and lovely person. She will be dearly missed”. Ms. Hooks featured on iconic US show Saturday Night Live (SNL) in the Eighties and helped it return to form after its ratings dived in 1985.
She featured alongside Wayne’s World star Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman, the latter voiced failed Springfield actor Troy McClure on The Simpsons.
Jan Hooks Phil Hartman
Love Is A Dream’ With Jan Hooks And Phil Hartman Is The Perfect Way To Remember Them Both. … After the death of Jan Hooks, the tender scene with the late Phil Hartman is a full-on tearjerker.
Jan Hooks SNL Characters
1. Stefon
2. Debbie Downer
3. The Church Lady
4. Gilly
5. Harry Potter
6. Matt Foley
7. Mary Katherine G.
8. Roseanne
9. Emily Litella
10. The Boston Teens
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Jan Hooks Net Worth
Jan Hooks was an American comedienne and actress who had a net worth of $1.5 million dollars.
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