Jan Hooks(1957-2014)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Jan Hooks is better remembered for her five-year run on
Saturday Night Live (1975)
(1986-91) on the series she impersonated actress ranging from
Bette Davis, to
Ann-Margret, to
Sally Kellerman, to
Jodie Foster. After she left the show, she
was proposed by
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason to
replace Jean Smart on CBS's
Designing Women (1986). She
accepted. She played the role of Carlene Dobber for the final two
seasons. She has also played memorable characters in feature-films
including, Tina (the Alamo girl) in
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985),
and Dixie Glick in
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004).
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 nominations total
Known for
8.0
TV Series
- Various
- Hillary Clinton
- Candy Sweeney
- Ivana Trump
- Jessica Hahn
- Marge Keister
- Nancy Reagan
- Sinead O'Connor
- Tammy Faye Bakker
- Dee Kelly
- Friend
- Sally Kellerman
- Angie
- Barbara Mandrell
- Betty Ford
- Carazpm Aqiomp
- Cashier
- Cheri Carter
- Chia Head Client's Wife
- Client
- Colleen Walsh
- Constance Gregory
- Corazon Aquino
- Crystal Gayle
- Crystal McLanahan
- Date
- Desiree Fortune
- Diana Ross
- Diane Sawyer
- Donna
- Drew Barrymore
- Eleanor Clift
- Eleonor Clift
- Elizabeth Dole
- Elyse Keaton
- Franny Sweeney
- Guest
- Jean Kasem
- Jean Marsh
- Judy Rifkin
- Juliette Delanois
- Kathie Lee Gifford
- Kay Corleone
- Kid
- Kitty Dukakis
- Lady Smythe
- Lesbian Mother
- Log Lady
- Ludmula
- Mary Bailey
- Mary Jo Buttafuoco
- Maude Kaufman
- Megan
- Mia Farrow
- Mistress
- Mother
- Mrs. Hudson
- Mrs. Johnson
- Mrs. Novack
- Nadine Hurley
- Nancy Simmons
- Oprah Winfrey
- Pat Stevens
- Petty Gleming
- Princess Di
- Reporter
- Rose Kennedy
- Roxanne
- Sally Jessy Raphael
- Shelley Long
- Spelling Bee Moderator
- Susan Estrich
- Suspectful Wife
- Syndi
- Tammy Wynette
- Visitor
- Woman
Credits
Actress
Soundtrack
- Saturday Night Live8.0TV Series
- performer: "Silver Bells"
- performer: "The Almost Perfect Christmas", "The Daughter's Song", "Why Am I Here? (The "Pretty" Song)", "Carol Of Intimacy"
- performer: "The Boy from Ipanema" ...
- 1986–2021
- 30 Rock8.3TV Series
- performer: "Don't Go to Bed With a Frown"
- performer: "Do That to Me One More Time" (uncredited)
- 2010
- SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas6.4TV Special
- performer: "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (uncredited)
- 2009
- Saturday Night Live Christmas Special7.9TV Series
- performer: "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing", "The Almost Perfect Christmas", "The Daughter's Song", "Why Am I Here (The 'Pretty' Song)", "Carol of Intimacy" (uncredited)
- 1999
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dana Carvey7.4TV Special
- performer: "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (uncredited)
- 1998
- 1988
Personal details
- Alternative name
- The Sweeney Sisters
- Height
- 5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Born
- Died
- October 9, 2014
- Woodstock, New York, USA(throat cancer)
- Relatives
- Sibling(Sibling)
- Other worksTV commercial for Nike Zoom Air sneakers ("Support Group") (1997)
- Publicity listings
Did you know
- TriviaHooks died of complications due to throat cancer, which had been diagnosed two years before she passed away in 2014. According to an article at the Grantland site, the cancer did not respond to surgery and chemotherapy, and doctors said the last medical option was a major procedure that had poor odds of curing her and would have ended her speaking ability forever. Hooks refused this and used home hospice care for the time between this diagnosis and her death.
- Quotes[on dealing with stage fright during her stint on Saturday Night Live (1975)] Sometimes if I see an old show, I think "Boy, I was good!" I mean, can't you tell how shit-scared I was? And you know how they say, "Well, everybody's got the jitters," and you go out there and you're fine? No! I wasn't! I didn't like it! I don't like roller coasters, and I don't like circus performing. It's just not my thing. The music was too loud. The people, the energy of it just made me very nervous. [It was] an awful, awful time. And I didn't care. I didn't want to be [famous]. I didn't want to be on TV!
- TrademarkSmiled quite a lot when acting
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