Jan Hooks Biography
Born: April 23, 1957
Born in Georgia, comedian Jan Hooks has perfected her exaggerated Southern accent and carved a niche for herself satirizing the eccentric wives of prominent politicians and public figures. After making her film debut as Tina, the Alamo tour guide in Pee_Wee's_Big_Adventure, she joined the cast of Saturday_Night_Live. Starting in 1986, she created over-the-top characterizations for Nancy_Reagan, Kitty Dukakis, Ivana Trump, Tammy_Faye_Bakker, and Hillary_Clinton. She left the show in 1991 and put her Southern accent permanently on display for Designing_Women as Carlene, the naïve sister of Charlene (Jean_Smart). Movie roles were usually small yet quirky, like the image consultant in Batman_Returns or the driving student in Coneheads. In 1994, she joined a team of hard-working comedians at the The Martin Short Show, who she would later work with on the Comedy Central program Primetime Glick. She was ideal for the role of Dixie Glick, the wife of the 300-pound celebrity talk show host Jiminy Glick (Martin_Short). While making regular appearances as Vicki Dubcek on 3rd Rock From the Sun and as Apu's wife Manjula on The_Simpsons, she reprised her role of Dixie Glick for the feature-length movie La La Wood in 2003. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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