32 Facts About Jenna Fischer

Regina Marie Kirk, known professionally as Jenna Fischer, is an American actress.

Jenna Fischer is best known for her role as Pam Beesly on the NBC sitcom The Office, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2007; she was a producer for the series' ninth and final season.

Jenna Fischer had starring roles in the comedy films Blades of Glory, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, The Promotion, Hall Pass, and The Giant Mechanical Man, a film directed by her husband, Lee Kirk.

Jenna Fischer had starring roles in the drama films Solitary Man, Brad's Status, and The 15:17 to Paris.

Jenna Fischer had supporting roles in Employee of the Month, Slither, and Mean Girls.

Jenna Fischer is currently the co-host of the podcast Office Ladies alongside her The Office co-star, Angela Kinsey.

Jenna Fischer was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and raised in St Louis, Missouri.

Jenna Fischer's mother, Anne, is a history teacher; her father, James E Fischer, is an engineer.

Jenna Fischer has one younger sister, Emily, a third grade teacher.

Jenna Fischer first performed at the age of six, when she participated in an acting workshop taught by her mother at Henry School in St Louis, a workshop attended by actor Sean Gunn, with whom she grew up.

Jenna Fischer later attended Pierremont Elementary School in Manchester, Missouri, and Nerinx Hall High School, a private all-girls Catholic school in Webster Groves, Missouri.

Jenna Fischer holds a Bachelor of Arts in theater, as well as a minor in journalism, from Truman State University, where she originally enrolled as a pre-law history major.

Jenna Fischer subsequently had bit parts in small independent films, including Employee of the Month, Lucky 13 and The Specials, then progressed to guest roles on television series including Cold Case, Miss Match, Off Centre, Six Feet Under, Strong Medicine, That '70s Show, Undeclared, and What I Like About You.

Unsatisfied with her career's progress, Jenna Fischer took matters into her own hands, writing, directing and starring in her own mockumentary, LolliLove, co-starring her then-husband James Gunn, and friends Linda Cardellini, Judy Greer, Lloyd Kaufman and Jason Segel.

Jenna Fischer began participating in The Artist's Way, a self-led creativity seminar in book form.

In 2005, after a succession of mostly improvised auditions similar to her LolliLove experience, Jenna Fischer landed the role of Pam Beesly on what became the NBC hit The Office, based on the original BBC series.

Jenna Fischer appeared on Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown in 2006, participating in the series' eighth tournament, shot in New Orleans, Louisiana, and playing for Catholic Charities USA's Tsunami Relief.

Also in 2006, she co-starred in Gunn's film Slither; Jenna Fischer said that Gunn gave her the role of Shelby as a "birthday present".

In 2009, Jenna Fischer completed shooting on the films Solitary Man and A Little Help; the latter opened in the summer of 2010 at the Seattle International Film Festival.

Jenna Fischer was named a producer of the mid-August through October 2010 run of the critically acclaimed play Sad Happy Sucker, written by her husband Lee Kirk and directed by friend Sean Gunn; it previously ran as a theatre workshop in February and March 2007.

In July 2009, Jenna Fischer played left field for the National League team in the Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game as part of the MLB All-Star Week festivities at Busch Stadium in St Louis, Missouri, where she grew up.

Jenna Fischer was named an official spokeswoman for Proactiv Skincare Solutions that year and was announced as the voice behind the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board Grilled Cheese Academy website in 2010.

Jenna Fischer starred in the world premiere of Steve Martin's comedy Meteor Shower at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, from July 30 to September 18,2016.

Jenna Fischer worked with actors Greg Germann, Alexandra Henrikson, and Josh Stamberg.

On September 11,2019, Jenna Fischer announced that she and Angela Kinsey would co-host a weekly The Office rewatch podcast called Office Ladies, which premiered on October 16.

On February 28,2023, Jenna Fischer was announced to play Mrs Heron in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Mean Girls, based on the 2004 film of the same name.

That small part in a showcase led to Jenna Fischer getting her first manager.

In 2010, Jenna Fischer helped Gunn cast Rainn Wilson, her The Office co-star, in Gunn's film Super.

Jenna Fischer is passionate about animal welfare, and is involved with the Los Angeles organizations Kitten Rescue and Rescue Rover.

Jenna Fischer regularly fosters cats and hosted Kitten Rescue's annual Fur Ball Gala in 2008,2009, and 2010.

In October 2024, Jenna Fischer revealed she had been diagnosed with breast cancer a year earlier, but she was cancer-free after 12 rounds of chemotherapy, and 3 weeks of radiation therapy and lumpectomy.

Jenna Fischer revealed that Angela Kinsey, her Office Ladies co-host, "protected" and "advocated" for her during their podcast recordings.