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LIZ LEMON | TINA FEY

VITAL STATS

Occupation: Head writer of TGS with Tracy Jordan

Personality type: As Jack describes her, she's a "New York third-wave feminist, college-educated, single-and-pretending-to-be-happy-about-it, over-scheduled, undersexed, you buy any magazine that says 'healthy body image' on the cover and every two years you take up knitting for...a week." Liz has an acerbic wit and the ability to keep relatively cool in the face of all the chaos that surrounds her on a daily basis.

Quirks: Stress eater, allergic to "anything warm and adorable," Star Wars fanatic, nervous around people in power

Signature look: Normally wears "bi-curious" shoes, plastic-rimmed glasses, and "gender-neutral," casual clothes. Cleans up well.

Strength(s): Acerbic wit, strong conviction to fairness, intelligence, keeps cool under pressure, speaks German (but not quite fluent)

Weakness(es): Lacks social skills, acts rashly when angered, motherhood, white guilt

Nicknames: Lemon

Hobbies: watching television (favorite shows are Heroes, Lost, Little People, Big World, Ugly Betty, Top Chef, Designing Women and the Daily Show), Star Wars trivia, eating junk food.

LIZ LEMON'S BACK STORY

Liz Lemon grew up in White Haven, Pennsylvania. She has one brother, who due to a skiing accident, thinks he is perpetually in 1985 and that he is 17 years old. Liz's career in television writing was inspired by Rosemary Howard, the first female head writer of Laugh-In. While attending Smith College she earned a B.A. in theater tech and spent her junior year in Frankfurt, Germany.

After graduation she lived with TGS cast member Jenna Malone in Chicago. The two developed The Girlie Show as part of the Second City theater group. When The Girlie Show was picked up by NBC the pair moved to New York and Liz became head writer.

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WHY WE LIZ

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She had a catfight with Isabella Rosselini

She makes man shirts look feminine

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BEST EPISODES AND SCENES

Season 1, Episode 8, The Break Up - Liz finally dumps her loser 1st season boyfriend and tries to pick up men with Jenna's help.

Season 2, Episode 9, Ludachristmas - Liz's family shows up to help her celebrate the holiday.

Season 3, Episode 5, Reunion - Liz's self-image as a nerd in high school is destroyed when she attends her high school reunion and discovers that she was a jerk.

Season 4, Episode 7, Dealbreakers Talk Show #0001 - Liz becomes one of the actors that she's always hated as she tries to do the promos for her new talk show. Jack has to talk her down off of the virtual ledge, and she does an awesome Gollum/Smeagol impression.

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	Name: Jack Donaghy
	Occupation: Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Programming
	Relationship: Boss, friend

	Name: Tracy Jordan
	Occupation: Actor/Star of TGS
	Relationship: co-worker

	Name: Jenna Maroney
	Occupation: Actress/star of TGS, co-creator of The Girlie Show
	Relationship: friend, co-worker, former roomate

	Name: Kenneth Parcell
	Occupation: NBC page
	Relationship: co-worker

	Name: Pete Hornberger
	Occupation: producer of TGS
	Relationship: co-worker, friend

	Name: Cerie Xerox
	Occupation: Liz's assistant
	Relationship: employee

	Name: James "Twofer" Spurlock
	Occupation: Staff writer
	Relationship: employee

	Name: Frank Rossitano
	Occupation: Staff writer
	Relationship: employee

LIZ LEMON QUOTES

"I want to go there."

"I pretty much just do whatever Oprah tells me to do."

"I *love* cursing. I love it!"

"Tracy took advantage of my white guilt, which is to be used only for good like overtipping and supporting Barack Obama."

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Liz is allergic to dogs and cats

Liz is left handed

Babies have a hypnotic effect over her.

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Birthplace

Feb 29 2012, 3:18 AM EST by mjr426

Thread started: Feb 29 2012, 3:18 AM EST Watch

The character of Liz Lemon has often mentioned she is from White Haven, PA, and she acts as though that is a suburb of Philadelphia. White Haven is actually about a two-hour drive north from Philadelphia, closer to Scranton and the Poconos than Philadelphia. Oddly, Tina Fey is really from Upper Darby, PA, which actually is a suburb of Philadelphia, so if this was a writer's gaffe, she should have caught it.

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