Why tina fey has a scar

Here are 10 facts about a fantastically blorft American icon. Her father and mother sneaked her in to see Young Frankenstein and would let her stay up late to watch The Honeymooners. Fey wrote in Bossypants that it happened in an alleyway behind her Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, home when she was in kindergarten.

Saturday Night Live hired Fey as a writer in It's really almost like I'm kind of able to forget about it, until I was on-camera. Skip to content Share Icon. Facebook Logo. Link Icon. Eagle-eyed fans may have spotted her scar, but how did she get it? Tina Fey has a scar on the lower half of her face, which she got in childhood.

She sustained the injury after a stranger slashed her in an alley near her home. Her mother was Greek while her father also had European heritage. In , she graduated from the University of Virginia after studying drama and headed to Chicago to pursue her acting career.

It was at the theatre group that Fey met her husband Jeff Richmond. When Fey was 5 years old and living in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, an attacker slashed her face. Fey doesn't often speak about the incident, but in the interview she said it didn't affect her at the time — only once she entered show business. It's really almost like I'm kind of able to forget about it, until I was on-camera, and it became a thing of 'Oh, I guess we should use this side' or whatever.