Janet Vivian Hooks was an American actress and comedian.
10 Facts About Jan Hooks
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Jan Hooks attended Cypress Lake High School, made her stage debut in a play there, and graduated in 1975.
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In 1985, Jan Hooks met with producer Lorne Michaels about a spot on Saturday Night Live, but was passed over in favor of Joan Cusack.
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Tiring of the stress of performing on a live show, Jan Hooks left SNL in 1991 after being asked by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason to replace Jean Smart on the CBS sitcom Designing Women.
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Jan Hooks continued to make occasional appearances on SNL through 1994, usually playing Hillary Clinton.
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Jan Hooks guest-starred on two Matt Groening-produced cartoons for the Fox Broadcasting Company: six episodes of The Simpsons between 1997 and 2002, as Apu's wife Manjula, and in the Futurama episode "Bendless Love", as the voice of the robot Angleyne.
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Jan Hooks made two appearances on 30 Rock in 2010, playing Jenna Maroney's mother, Verna, the last live-action spots Hooks did.
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Jan Hooks guest-starred in the 2013 The Cleveland Show episode "Mr and Mrs Brown", which was her final acting job.
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Jan Hooks turned down a role in the 2003 television film The Music Man and declined to reprise her SNL sketch "The Sweeney Sisters" with Nora Dunn in a special appearance at Carnegie Hall in 2014.
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Jan Hooks was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2009, which was treated and went into remission that May In April 2014, Hooks discovered a bump on her throat.