Jenna Fischer

Jenna Fischer is best known for playing Pam Beesly on the acclaimed television show "The Office," for which she received an Emmy nomination for best supporting actress and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for outstanding performance by an ensemble comedy.

A trained theater actress, Fischer has also starred in the off-Broadway play "Reasons to Be Happy," written and directed by Neil LaBute and co-starring Josh Hamilton, Leslie Bibb and Fred Weller. She also starred in the world premiere of Steve Martin's play "Meteor Shower," an absurdist comedy opposite Greg Germann and Josh Stamberg, during a record-breaking run at the Old Globe Theatre.

Fischer's film credits include Mike White's feature "Brad's Status," opposite Ben Stiller; "The 15:17 to Paris," directed by Clint Eastwood; "The Giant Mechanical Man," which she also produced; the Farrelly Brothers’ comedy "Hall Pass"; "Solitary Man," opposite Michael Douglas; "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," produced by Judd Apatow; and "Blades of Glory," opposite Will Ferrell. Most recently, she appeared in the new "Mean Girls" as Ms. Heron.

In 2018 Fischer’s first book, "The Actor's Life," was published by Ben Bella Books. In 2022 Fischer, along with Angela Kinsey, released the New York Times No. 1 bestselling book "The Office BFFs: Tales from The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There," a memoir of their friendship and time on "The Office."

Today she mostly works from home in sweatpants, running the media company Ramble that she co-founded with Kinsey and producing and hosting the "Office Ladies" podcast, which she has said makes her very happy.