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Jenna Maroney
Jenna Maroney
First appearance	"Pilot"
Information
Gender	Female
Age	30s or 40s (claims to be 29)
Occupation	Actress/singer
Family	Werner Maroney (father) Verna Maroney (mother)
Portrayed by	Jane Krakowski
Created by	Tina Fey

Jenna Maroney is a fictional character on the American television series 30 Rock, played by Jane Krakowski.

Jenna's father, Werner Maroney, was a burger server in suburban Santa Barbara. Apparently, he spurned Jenna's mother Verna for a "curly-haired" surfer named Roberta. Jenna still says she will "always be his little girl." Jenna studied voice at Northwestern University and, apparently, when she first met Liz Lemon, Jenna was "slutting it up" to get car dealership owners to put her in their commercials. She later did theater works, including The Jenna Chronicles: A One-Woman Show in 1996, Con Air: The Musical in 1997 and she once participated in a Gangsta rap contest in 2000. In the musical version of Con Air, she appears to have played Rachel Ticotin's character. She was also once engaged to David Blaine.

Jenna was the main star of The Girlie Show, a sketch comedy series that was created by her friend Liz Lemon. Jenna's star billing would be reduced drastically when Jack Donaghy is hired as a new network vice president and brings in Tracy Jordan, a popular and unpredictable actor. And on top of that, Jack decided that Tracy is more a priority than Jenna so he orders the show's title change to TGS with Tracy Jordan.

The move has Jenna furious because not only she was left out of the loop, but upset that Liz gave in to Jack's demands. In addition she finds herself at the mercy of Tracy's mentally unstable antics, the writing staff's constant pranks, and Jack's constant avoidance of her (his reason is that she is not promotable for the show). But despite all this, Liz assures Jenna that her future on the show is safe...for now.

When she is not doing the show, she also does films, having wrapped up filming The Rural Juror written by John Grisham's brother Kevin, which she was going to promote until Jack replaced her appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien with Tracy. In "The Rural Juror", she mentions that The Rural Juror would be her first starring role in a film.

Jenna, who also is a singer as well, claims to be a popular Dance Pop superstar overseas, citing a track that became a major hit in a few territories in Europe, "Muffin Top." Unfortunately no one in the United States ever got a chance to see her perform the song because Liz had the number cut from the show without her knowing. She also sang a song when the crew surprised her with a birthday party, until Josh ran in and announced an antique car show out on the plaza.

One of her characters on the show is "Pam, the Overly-Confident Morbidly Obese Woman", for which she must wear a fat suit. In "The Rural Juror," she appears in a sketch as Paris Hilton.

Generally, she fits into the "dumb blonde" stereotype as well as the stereotype of actresses being airheaded and self-centered. Off-camera, she is conceited, frequently lies about her age and uses her "sexuallity" (i.e. flirting) to get her way with men. She tries to seem smart to her fans and to the general public, even going as far as telling Life and Style magazine her favorite book is the Quran. Sometimes her views gets her in hot water with the public, even when she is misquoted; when Maxim asked her about her view on the Iraqi War Jenna thought the interviewer meant theater troops but the fan sound made it hard for the interviewer to understand what she was saying. When she saw the article afterwards she and Liz was forced to do damage control by placing her on Hardball with Chris Matthews, followed by doing a number about America, but in both cases the damage was made even worse than expected.

She also has a habit of spilling secrets, as evidenced in the episode "The Baby Show," when she told everyone about Liz's desire to have a baby, prompting everyone to volunteer to become Liz's sperm donors and surrogates.

She is shown to be overanxious about her acting career, which is apparently failing. Paranoid about losing her job, she proves to be any easy target for anyone who wants to mess with her head since she tends to foolishly listen to whatever anyone tells her. Liz usually has to intervene at the last moment to bring her back to reality. Jenna also finds it tough to get along with Tracy by watching his antics even as she tries to work, let alone be friends, with him.

In "The Baby Show," she celebrated her birthday. Ignoring the episodes' airdates, which tend to contradict with the show's timeline, and given the mention of Thanksgiving in "Tracy Does Conan" and the fact that in "The Rural Juror," the fictional film of the title, which was stated to have a December 18 release, is still upcoming, her birthday seems to be around late November or early December. According to Liz in "The Rural Juror," Jenna's hair is dyed. In "The Fighting Irish," Jenna stated that she was a follower of Kabbalah.

• The Rural Juror - Constance Justice
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - a "lady rapist"
• ShopRite Supermarkets - Commercial Spokesperson
• Arliss - Received a Cable ACE Award for a guest spot on the show (mentioned in episode "Hard Ball")

v • d • e 30 Rock

Episodes: Season One Crew: Tina Fey • Lorne Michaels • Joann Alfano • Marci Klein • David Miner Cast: Tina Fey • Tracy Morgan • Jane Krakowski • Jack McBrayer • Scott Adsit • Judah Friedlander • Alec Baldwin • Minor cast Characters: Liz Lemon • Tracy Jordan • Jenna Maroney • Kenneth Potsdown • Pete Hornberger • Frank Rossitano • Jack Donaghy • Minor characters