Jenna Fischer

At 50 years old, Jenna Fischer has this physical status:

Career

Fischer appeared with a touring Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre troupe while attending college at Truman State University in Missouri.

Fischer began performing Commedia dell'arte with the Zoo District Theatre Company in Los Angeles in 1998. She was discovered by a talent agent because of her appearance in a musical theater version of the 1922 film Nosferatu with Zoo District Theatre Company. This resulted in her signing a deal with the agent.

Fischer had trouble getting into film and television. After being rescued from Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, she appeared in a sex education video for psychiatric patients.

Fischer landed her first television speaking role three years ago from the time she arrived in California until she landed her first televised speaking role. In 2001, she appeared as a waitress on the television sitcom Spin City.

During her early years in Southern California, Fischer appeared in bit parts in small independent films, including Employee of the Month, Lucky 13, and The Specials.

On television, she appeared as a guest on programs such as Cold Case, Miss Match, Off Center, Six Feet Under, That '70s Show, Undeclared, and What I Like About You.

Though Fischer's film career was slowly fading, she took matters into her own hands, writing, directing, and starring LolliLove, her only acting credit. Susan Gunn, the film's co-stars, as well as Linda Cardellini, Judy Greer, Lloyd Kaufman, and Jason Segel appeared in the film. She began participating in The Artist's Way, a self-led creativity workshop in book form. "I got this idea from reading the book." It wasn't even supposed to be a real movie when we first started it. "It's just going to be an improv project for James and I to amuse ourselves with." She filmed preliminary improvisational interviews with her friends in the faux documentary style that would later bring her her fame to The Office by using a camera she gave Gunn as a wedding gift. In an interview, she said, "I really feel it was divine grace that I chose to work in this field for a year." "It was the best thing I could have ever done for the possibility of being on the show."

In November 2004, LolliLove premiered at the St. Louis International Film Festival in Fischer and Gunn, Missouri, and was also on display at the TromaDance Film Festival. Fischer received a Screen Actors Guild Emerging Actor Award for her role in the film. Despite the film's contribution to her career, she told a St. Louis arts and entertainment publication that the experience dissuaded her from furthering in directing:

Fischer landed the role of Pam Beesly in 2005, based on the original BBC series, after a string of mostly failed auditions akin to her LolliLove experience. Allison Jones, a casting director, told Fischer, "Dare to bore me." Fischer spent several years in Los Angeles as a receptionist and administrative assistant, much like her television counterpart, who was unable to succeed, but she still felt she was well suited for the job. In 2009, Pam's journey became so attached to her -- she told NPR. "I just love playing this character so much." She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2007.

Fischer was immediately focused on the show's success; in an interview with her alma mater's student newspaper in April 2005, she said: "It would be fantastic to play Pam for a long, long time." I don't have aspirations to be a film actor. I'd love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining part." Fischer's film acting career began to develop as The Office grew into a success. She co-starred in her then-husband's film Slither in 2006, and Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Amy Poehler, and Will Arnett filmed supporting roles in The Brothers Solomon, alongside Will Arnett and Will Forte, Blades of Glory, and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, co-starring Seann William Scott.

Fischer was chosen by the actor's cast to speak out on behalf of the show's win of Outstanding Comedy Series at the 2006 Emmy Awards, stating: "We love working together and being united; as an ensemble, this group suffered for a long time as non-working actors, like 8, 12, 20, 20 years..."

Fischer completed filming on the films Solitary Man and A Little Help in 2009, with the latter opening at the Seattle International Film Festival in the summer of 2010. She finished filming on the Farley Brothers comedy Hall Pass, which was released in February 2011.

Fischer appeared on Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown in 2006, shot in New Orleans, Louisiana, and fundraising for Catholic Charities' Tsunami Relief.

Fischer appeared in Willie Wisely's single "Through Any Window" directed by longtime friend John Cabrera; the opportunity arose because she knew Wisely from work on soundtracks for LolliLove and Tromeo and Juliet, one of her husband's films.

Fischer appeared in episode 25 of Darque Magick, a serialized play written and directed by Jenelle Riley, in December of the same year.

Fischer grew up in left field for the National League's Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game in July 2009.

Fischer returned to the area in March 2010 to co-chair an annual auction for Nerinx Hall High School, her alma mater. She auctioned off a set visit to The Office and several autographed props from the show at the auction.

Fischer was selected as the voice behind the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board Grilled Cheese Academy website in 2009, and he was named official spokeswoman for Proactiv Skincare Solutions.

Fischer was appointed as the producer of the critically acclaimed play Sad Happy Sucker, written by her husband Lee Kirk and directed by friend Sean Gunn, from mid-August to October 2010. In February and March 2007, the production ran as a theatre workshop.

Fischer appeared in Reasons to Be Happy, a non-Broadway drama that ran from May to June 2013.

Fischer appeared 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. She has worked with comedians Greg Germann, Alexandra Henrikson, and Josh Stamberg.

Fischer was on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2018 wearing only a towel and jeans due to a last-minute wardrobe malfunction when the zipper broke on her dress. The actress came out on stage wearing the dress she intended to wear and told the audience, "I'm mentally ill" because "I'm on a talk show in a towel, but I'm physically fit."

Fischer and Angela Kinsey would cohost a weekly The Office rewatch podcast, which premiered on September 11, 2019. Office Ladies' first episode was released on October 16, 2019. Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, and Oscar Nunez, as well as producers/directors Greg Daniels, Paul Feig, and Ken Kwapis were among the guests on the podcast. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Fischer and Kinsey continued to record the podcast by making it from their own homes—recording segments in their closets. They have since returned to recording in-person. Office Ladies received the 2021 iHeartRadio Podcast of the Year award on January 21, 2021.

Fischer and her Office Ladies co-host, Angela Kinsey, announced in February 2021 that they would publish The Office BFFs, a new book. The book will be about their time on the show and its place on the program, with photographs and stories.

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