Jenna Fischer

Regina Marie "Jenna" Fischer (born March 7, 1974) is an American actress. She is widely known for her portrayal of Pam Beesly on the NBC sitcom The Office, for which she received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2007. Since then, Fischer has appeared in various films such as Blades of Glory (2007), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), The Promotion (2008), and Hall Pass (2011) before playing Janice in The Giant Mechanical Man (2012), a film directed by her husband, Lee Kirk. She recently starred as Rhonda McNeil in the NBC's comedy-drama series You, Me and the Apocalypse. Fischer's first book, The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide, with an introduction by Steve Carell, was published in November 2017. 2Early life Fischer was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother, Anne (née Miller), is a history teacher; and her father, James E. "Jim" Fischer, is an engineer. She has one younger sister, Emily, a third grade teacher. She first performed at the age of six, when she participated in an acting workshop taught by her mother at Henry School in S