Emmy winner Tina Fey, co-anchor of SNL's "Weekend Update" segment, is in her sixth season as an on-air performer on "Saturday Night Live." Since her transition to the front of the camera, Fey has won much acclaim ­ including being named one of Entertainment Weekly's Entertainers of the Year in 2001.

An "SNL" staff writer since 1997, Fey was named head writer in 1999, making her the first female head writer in the show's history. Recurring sketches Fey has penned include the recurring "Sully and Denise" sketch featuring Jimmy Fallon and Rachel Dratch as Bostonian teens, the recent commercial parody "Mom Jeans," "Colonel Angus" featuring Christopher Walken and countless other memorable scenes. Fey also served as head writer for the Emmy Award winning special "Saturday Night Live ­The 25th Anniversary."

Fey and the writing staff of "SNL" were honored with a 2002 Primetime Emmy Award and Writers' Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Variety, Music or Comedy Program.

Fey transitioned to feature films in Spring 2004 as both a screenwriter and an actress, opposite Lindsay Lohan, in the hit comedy "Mean Girls," which Fey adapted from Rosalind Wiseman's talked-about non-fiction book "Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Adolescence." Fey was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

In addition to her work on "SNL," she is currently developing a comedy series for NBC as well as a follow up feature for Paramount: "Curly Oxide & Vic Thrill."

In the summer of 2000, Fey joined "SNL" castmate Rachel Dratch in a critically praised sketch comedy show "Dratch & Fey" at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City, dubbed "the funniest thing to be found on any New York comedy stage this summer" by Time Out New York.

Fey came to "SNL" from Chicago's famed Second City where she was a writer-performer. Second City has also produced current cast members Rachel Dratch and Horatio Sanz as well as such famed "SNL" alums as John Belushi, Chris Farley and Bill Murray (among many others). Second City also hosted the first incarnation of "Dratch & Fey" in the summer of 1999.

Fey is married and has a daughter. They live in New York. Her birthday is May 18.