Meet Tina Fey’s funny teenage daughters, Alice and Penelope – who weighed in on the Mean Girls reboot and have variously appeared in mum’s shows 30 Rock and Girls5eva
Judging by a short film the sisters made together 6 years ago – which saw its ‘world premiere’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – their sense of humour is about as irreverent as their mum’s
Here’s what we know about the star’s two children.
Tina Fey had her daughters with husband Jeff Richmond
Tina Fey met her husband, the music composer Jeff Richmond, in the 90s when the pair were doing improv with Chicago’s famous Second City theatre troupe. “I don’t want to say she was funny ‘for a woman’, but there were so many talented men there, and suddenly there was Tina, who was so funny,” he told The New Yorker several years later.
The pair married in 2001 and had their first daughter, Alice Zenobia Richmond in 2005. Six years later, they welcomed Penelope Athena Richmond.
She wrestled with the decision to have a second child
In a 2011 essay for The New Yorker, Fey discussed how she wrangled with her emotions after having Alice. “Science shows that fertility and movie offers drop off steeply for women after 40,” she commented wryly. “When my daughter says, ‘I wish I had a baby sister,’ I am stricken with guilt and panic.”