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Characters: Thirty Rock
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     Main Characters 

Liz Lemon

Played By: Tina Fey
The showrunner of TGS who pretty much has to babysit everyone else.

Jack Donaghy

Played By: Alec Baldwin
NBC Executive who regularly calls for changes on TGS.

Tracy Jordan

Played By: Tracy Morgan

The famous movie star that Jack brings on to TGS. Played by Tracy Morgan.

Later:
Tracy I've put more money into this than my money pit in Conneticut.
Jack You have a house in Conneticut?
Tracy ...no.

Jenna Maroney

Played By: Jane Krakowski

TGS's crazy, attention loving star.

  • Attention Whore: Big time. She even considered having a baby to get more attention.
    • Though she does resort to Suspiciously Specific Denial to try to put bad attention behind her: "I don't know what you're talking about, and that was two years ago."
  • Dumb Blonde: Surprisingly averted. She is, however, monstrously self-obsessed and will do anything for attention.
  • Hidden Depths: Once proved herself a surprisingly efficient businesswoman.
  • It's All About Me: She has this bad.
  • Lack of Empathy: "You look like that flash card they told me means sadness."
  • Noodle Incident: Has an unspecified feud with Raven Symone.
    • She also views Jenny McCarthy as her nemesis.
  • Manipulative Bitch
  • Narcissist: A fairly accurate portrayal of a more extreme case. She lacks empathy, has a disproportionately large ego, and is threatened easily by the opinions of others — but she does have genuine affection for a small handful of people, and is capable of (limited) remorse.
  • Parental Abandonment: "My mother's boyfriend raised me to believe..."
  • The Sociopath: In one episode, Pete and the writers test her to see if she is one. When she shows genuine remorse for hurting Kenneth, however, he deems her an "extreme narcissist" instead.
  • Weird Aside: "That's a double edged sword, like the one Mickey Rourke tried to kill me with." "Telling Dennis off last night was so empowering, I was so pumped on the way home that I tossed a brick through the window of a Banana Republic!" "I still think the album would have sold better had he shot me in the face!"
    • In the finale, it's Implied in a Medium Aware moment when she says "I've never met Mickey Rourke" that she made up all those stories.
  • White Dwarf Starlet: She's trying to avert this.

Kenneth Parcell

Played By: Jack McBrayer

The NBC page who is a Wide-Eyed Idealist despite how he's treated by the staff of TGS.

Pete Hornberger

Played By: Scott Adsit

The beleaguered producer with a big family and a fatalistic outlook.

  • Bald of Awesome
  • Creepy Child: One of Pete's kids is frequently referenced as "the creepy one"
  • The Cynic: Arguably the most jaded in the entire cast of TGS
  • Deadpan Snarker: To Liz at times.
  • Demoted to Extra
  • Expansion Pack Past: as told by Pete in season 6 "My father was a congressman, I was valedictorian at St. Andrew's, an Olympic Archer, fourth guitarist in Loverboy as a teenager." Immediately lampshaded by Jack " If it weren't all true I would say it doesn't even make sense."
  • Hidden Depths: He's an impeccable archer and a pretty good musician.
  • Jaded Washout: Definitely jaded, though not exactly a washout. Although he did get denied the chance to participate in the olympics, and a DUI prevented him from being a Congressman. He still manages to keep his sanity and tends not to relive his past glory.
  • Not so Above It All: Has been becoming increasingly unstable as the series goes on.
  • Only Sane Employee: Slightly less sane than Liz, but that's just because he's far more cynical
  • Parental Abandonment: Inverted. Pete confesses to wanting to run away from his wife with each of her seven pregnancies, but he always comes back.
  • The Straight and Arrow Path: It's rare that it's relevant, but there have been a few times where his archery skills resolved the episode's conflict.

Frank Rossitano

Played By: Judah Friedlander

Cerie Xerox

Played By: Katrina Bowden

Liz's young, airheaded assistant, who is treated as the resident hot girl.

  • Hidden Depths: She disapproves of Greek treatment of Cyprus, she knows the exact speed of light, and she's just saner in general than most people at TGS.
  • Meaningful Name: She's a copy girl, and Los Angeles is apparently brimming with girls who look exactly like her.
  • Ms. Fanservice
  • Sexy Secretary
  • Spoiled Sweet: She's obviously from a wealthy background but is consistently sweet and kind.
  • Valley Girl

James 'Toofer' Spurlock

Played By: Keith Powell

Warren "Grizz" Griswold

Played By: Grizz Chapman

Part of Tracy Jordan's entourage.

Walter "DotCom" Slattery

Played By: Kevin Brown

Part of Tracy Jordan's entourage.

Jonathan

Played By: Mauilik Pancholy

Jack's assistant, who seems to have a gay crush on him.

JD Lutz

Played By: John Lutz


     Recurring GE/NBC/Kabletown employees 

Danny Baker

Played By: Cheyenne Jackson

Don Geiss

Played By: Rip Torn

Josh Girard

Played By: Lonny Ross

Kathy Geiss

Played By: Marceline Hugot

Devon Banks

Played By: Will Arnett

     Liz's Love Interests 

Dennis Duffy

Played By: Dean Winters

Liz's boyfriend at the beginning of the series. Generally disliked by all the characters but keeps on finding ways back into Liz's life every so often.

Floyd DeBarber

Played By: Jason Sudekis

Drew Baird

Played By: Jon Hamm

Wesley Snipes

Played By: Michael Sheen

Carol Burnett

Played By: Matt Damon

Criss Chross

Played By: James Mardsen

     Jack's Love Interests 

Bianca

Played By: Isabella Rossellini

Jack's ex-wife.

Phoebe

Played By: Emily Mortimer

Celsete "C.C." Cunningham

Played By: Edie Falco

Elisa Pedrera

Played By: Salma Hayek

Nancy Donovan

Played By: Julianne Moore

  • Betty and Veronica: Betty to Jack's Archie and Avery's Veronica.
  • The Cameo: Appears for the finale during Jack's quest for happiness and meaning. It involves getting into a threesome with Jack and Elisa.
  • Hollywood New England: Some of her characteristics—including her accent, sports fandom, and attitude towards marriage—are almost ludicrously stereotypically Boston Irish.

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