--- description: The actress was famous for her impressions title: Saturday Night Live Actress Jan Hooks Dies at 57 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e4590e1edaa339a/69875fd6e53aba88274d4ed3/jan-hooks.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Rememberance](/tag/rememberance/) ## Rememberance Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # SNL Alumna Jan Hooks Dies at 57  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Oct 9, 2014 10:42 PM CUT  Jan Hooks as Verna on 30 Rock Jan Hooks as Verna on 30 RockAli Goldstein—NBC/Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Oct 9, 2014 10:42 PM CUT Jan Hooks, a cast member on _Saturday Night Live_ from 1986 to 1994, died on Thursday in New York at the age of 57, TMZ [reported](http://www.tmz.com/2014/10/09/jan-hooks-dead-dies-snl/ "undefined") and _The Hollywood Reporter_ [confirmed](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/saturday-night-live-actress-jan-739697?utm%5Fsource=Sailthru&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fterm=hollywoodreporter%5Fbreakingnews&utm%5Fcampaign=THR%20Breaking%20News%5Fnow%5F2014-10-09%2015%3A04%3A07%5Fehayden "undefined"). Hooks recently had a recurring role on _30 Rock_ as Jenna Maroney’s mother, Verna Maroney. Hooks also appeared in _The Simpsons_, _Designing Women_ and _Batman Returns_. Here’s one of her skits from _SNL_: \[[_THR_\]](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/saturday-night-live-actress-jan-739697?utm%5Fsource=Sailthru&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fterm=hollywoodreporter%5Fbreakingnews&utm%5Fcampaign=THR%20Breaking%20News%5Fnow%5F2014-10-09%2015%3A04%3A07%5Fehayden "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3486810/snl-alumna-jan-hooks-dies-at-57/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3486810/snl-alumna-jan-hooks-dies-at-57/"},"headline":"SNL Alumna Jan Hooks Dies at 57","datePublished":"2014-10-09T22:42:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:42:15.652Z","description":"The actress was famous for her impressions of Hillary Clinton, Sinead O'Connor and others","url":"https://time.com/3486810/snl-alumna-jan-hooks-dies-at-57/","keywords":["Rememberance","SNL","Saturday Night Live"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e4590e1edaa339a/69875fd6e53aba88274d4ed3/jan-hooks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e4590e1edaa339a/69875fd6e53aba88274d4ed3/jan-hooks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"30 Rock","caption":"30 Rock","creditText":"Ali Goldstein—NBC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/rememberance/","name":"Rememberance"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3486810/snl-alumna-jan-hooks-dies-at-57/","name":"SNL Alumna Jan Hooks Dies at 57"}}]}] ```