Jan Hooks of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Dies at age 57

Jan Hooks, a performing artist whose style for satire and capacity to possess a character was showcased amid her five years on "Saturday Night Live," passed on Thursday. She was 57.

Her passing was affirmed by her agent, Lisa Lieberman, who did not give whatever other points of interest. A few news reports said she died in New York of an undisclosed disease. A representative for "S.n.l." declined to remark.

Ms. Snares joined "S.n.l." in 1986 and was a piece of a cast that is broadly viewed as one of the best in the show's history, close by any semblance of Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Jon Lovitz, Nora Dunn and later Mike Myers.

Among the unmistakable ladies she imitated were Donald Trump's wife, Ivana, and the TV evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, whom she had seen on link in Atlanta before Ms. Bakker and her spouse, Jim, got to be broadly known. In the wake of leaving the show in 1991, Ms. Snares gave back a few times to depict Hillary Rodham Clinton — the first "S.n.l." cast part to handle that task.

She was presumably best known for her incessant appearances with Ms. Dunn as the Sweeney Sisters, an excruciatingly energetic yet negligibly capable parlor act. Reviewing the first "S.n.l." stars Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, Allan Johnson of The Chicago Tribune wrote in 1999, "If Aykroyd and Belushi were the ideal satire association on "S.n.l.," then Hooks and Dunn were close behind."

Ms. Snares' first employment after "S.n.l." was a part on "Outlining Women," the long-running sitcom about ladies who run an outline business in Atlanta. She supplanted Jean Smart, playing the sister of Ms. Brilliant's character.

She had not been wanting to leave "S.n.l.," she told The Associated Press in 1991: "In spite of the fact that my five-year contract was up, I was completely meaning to return. In any case I needed to research different potential outcomes." The "Planning Women" offer came, she said, "out of the blue."

Ms. Snares later had repeating parts on "third Rock From the Sun" and "The Simpsons." Most as of late she played the mother of Jenna Maroney, the flaky and conceited TV star played by Jane Krakowski, on "30 Rock," the Tina Fey sitcom about existence in the background at a late-night representation demonstrate much the same as "S.n.l." (Ms. Fey had been an author and normal entertainer on "S.n.l." after Ms. Snares left the show.)

Ms. Snares' motion picture parts incorporated a paramount turn as a visit guide at the Alamo in "Pee-small's Big Adventure" (1985). She was additionally in "Batman Returns" (1992) and "Simon Birch" (1998). In 1995 she supplanted Sarah Jessica Parker as a human pooch in "Sylvia," an Off Broadway drama by A. R. Gurney.

Conceived in Decatur, Ga., on April 23, 1957, and brought up in Atlanta, Ms. Snares got her parody preparing, as numerous other "S.n.l." entertainers did, at the Groundlings, the Los Angeles act of spontaneity and portrayal troupe. An alternate Groundling was Mr. Hartman, who joined the "S.n.l." cast that year she did and who was an incessant portrayal accomplice. (He was executed by his wife in 1998.)

Ms. Snares regularly credited Mr. Hartman with helping her overcome what she called her "appalling stage trepidation."

"I was one of the ones that in the middle of dress and air was sitting in a corner going, 'Please cut all that I'm in!' " James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales cited her as saying in their book "Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live" (2002).

In a meeting with The Toronto Star in 1998, Ms. Snares recognized that it had ended up "polished" for female previous "S.n.l." cast parts to "bash the show." She didn't, she said, in light of the fact that "it did me a great deal of good"