26  Nov
Tina Fey

Tina Fey is an American writer, comedian, actress and producer. She is one of the most talented comedy writers in the entertainment industry. She is best known for her work on Mean Girls, Saturday Night Live (SNL)series for NBC. Recently her acting as Sara Palin, the republican vice presidential nominee in 30 Rock, a situation comedy series, bring very famous to her. She is a writer on SNL in 1997. She is also acting in SNL. After leaving SNL, she started a new series named 30 Rock in which she portrays many famous people. She also acted in the movie Baby Mama. She was born in Pennsylvania as the daughter of Zenobia Jeanne and Donald Fey. Fey is married to Jeff Richmond, a composer on SNL and have a daughter. She is also known as committed environmentalist and supported humanitarian causes, such as the Mercy Corps world hunger center in New York City. After gaining graduation from the University of Virginia, she joined the improvisational theatre The second city. Improvisation make an important influence on her. She became a head writer for NBC’s Saturday Night Live (SNL). In SNL’s 25th anniversary special, Fey won a 2001 Writers Guild of America Award. In 2002, she and her staff writers won Emmy award for their work on the show. In 2008, she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical, and won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance in the comedy series.

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26  Nov
Hillary Clinton

Hilary Clinton is the junior US senator from New York and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in 2008 US presidential election. She is also a wife of former American President Bill Clinton. She was born in Chicago, Illinois as the daughter of Dorothy and Hugh Rodham. In childhood, she was member of the National Honor Society, and a student leader. After graduating from Yale Law School, she entered in the career of lawyer and earned fame as one of the one hundred most influential lawyers in America. She was also active in a number of organizations concerned with child welfare and several various corporations. When she was first lady of the United States, she played a role in advocating for the establishment of the state children’s health insurance program, the adoption and safe families act, and the foster care independence act. She was never charged with any wrongdoing during her husband’s administration and her marriage life was the subject of considerable public discussion following Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky issue. In 2000, she was selected as first female senator for New York. In the senate, she initially supported the Bush’s administration on some foreign policy issues, which included voting for the Iraq War Resolution. Later she opposed the administration on its conduct of the war in Iraq. In 2008 presidential nomination race, she narrowly lost to Senator Barack Obama. Moreover, it was reported that she will be Obama’s nominee for U.S. secretary of state. She was also a writer and she wrote many books. Her audio recording of the book earned her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

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