Meagen Fay Biography

Fast Facts

• When she was 4 years old, her parents enrolled her and her four brothers in a little theater group in their hometown of Joliet, Ill
• Quote: "I`ve been doing a recurring role on [the TV series] 'Roseanne,' playing Roseanne`s next-door neighbor, a b***h who hates her․ It`s just a joy to do․ Roseanne is great to work with․"
• Quote: "(On her audition for the TV series "Carol & Company") "I remember waiting around to have someone call me out to read with her, when suddenly [Carol Burnett] poked her head in the waiting room and said, `I just thought I`d come get you myself․'""
• Quote: "(On leaving Ireland) "Everything was going great until my parents called and said, 'Weren`t you going to do the school thing?' I felt a sense of Catholic guilt, so I came home to Joliet with the idea of going back to school․""
• Quote: "It`s obnoxiously boring and trite, but I always wanted to be an actress․ That`s probably because I came from such an expressive family, and it was an accepted way of being out in front of people․"
• She served her theatre apprenticeship in Dublin, Ireland, and earned glowing reviews for her work in a production of "Lysistrata" at The Dublin Theatre Festival
• She joined Chicago' famed Second City comedy troupe in 1980 and followed them into an extended engagement at the Village Gate nightclub in New York City