Jan Hooks' Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Designing Women Carlene Fra… Primetime Glick Dixie Glick The Dana Carvey Show Kathie Lee … Hiller and Diller Kate The Martin Short Show (1994) Meg Harper … The 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour Regular (3)

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BIOGRAPHY:

Janet Vivian Hooks was an American actress and comedian, best known for her work on Saturday Night Live, where she was a repertory player from 1986 to 1991, and continued making cameo appearances until 1994.
Hooks’ other TV credits include Not Necessarily the News, Designing Women, 3rd Rock From the Sun and voicing Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu’s wife, Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon, in a half-dozen episodes of The Simpsons.
In 1998, she was nominated for an Emmy in the outstanding guest actress in a comedy series category for her 3rd Rock From the Sun role. Her film credits include Batman Returns (1992), A Dangerous Woman (1993), Simon Birch (1998) and the Martin Short comedy Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004).

In February, 2009 Jan was diagnosed with leukemia, and was treated in March and April (it went into remission that May). In April, 2014 Jan discovered a bump the size of a pencil eraser on her throat. The results weren’t good. The lump on Jan’s neck was growing, and doctors urged her to return in early September for more tests. Faced with a total laryngectomy Jan decided to forgo treatment.

Jan Hooks died in her upstate New York home,



TRIVIA:

• Was formerly part of the improv group the Groundlings.
• Originally turned down for a regular spot on _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv) in 1985 because they thought at age 28, she was too old; they hired her the next year, when she was 29.