Jenna Fischer: a birth tie, printed at its size

Born 7 March 1974, Fort Wayne — raised in St. Louis

The tie, exactly: Jenna Fischer was born Regina Marie Fischer in Fort Wayne on March 7, 1974, and left in infancy. In her own words: "I was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana but moved away to St. Louis just before I turned 2. I grew up in St. Louis." That is the whole of the Fort Wayne tie, and this entry prints it at that size — no upbringing, no schooling, no local stage. What the city can record is that one of the most watched sitcom performances of its century was given by a woman born here.

The work: Fischer played Pam Beesly, the receptionist at the center of NBC's The Office, through the series' whole run, 2005 to 2013 — 188 episodes — and was a producer on its final season. For the third season she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, in 2007, and she shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for the ensemble in a comedy series. The performance was the show's still center — played quiet against the office's noise — and it made her the third Fort Wayne-born performer, after Long and York, to hold a defining role in a defining American sitcom. The resemblance among the three entries ends there: York's and Long's ties are birth and childhood respectively, Fischer's is birth alone, and the record keeps the three distinct.

Sources:

1. Jenna Fischer, biographical record as carried by Wikipedia — born Regina Marie Fischer, March 7, 1974, Fort Wayne; born in Fort Wayne and raised in St. Louis; The Office (2005–2013), the 2007 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and the producer credit on the final season; her own statement of the move to St. Louis before the age of two, as quoted there.
2. Emmy Awards record — the 2007 nomination at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards; the Screen Actors Guild ensemble award for The Office, as carried in the standard summaries.