Tina Fey and her college roommate Cady in slightly less-than-glamorous roles. (Via UVA Magazine ).
Behold, these awesome pictures of Tina Fey and her friend Cady Garey as "pinheads" in a production of The Elephant Man at the University of Virginia in 1991.
Tina Fey, left, and Cady Garey, right, backstage.
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We were the pinheads—circus freaks who appeared in a dream sequence. The costumes were loose-fitting burlap with heavy padding underneath. If that wasn't humiliating enough, the director of the show could never, never remember our actual names.
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Years later, Fey named the Mean Girls character Cady Heron after her college friend and roommate.
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Fey's 1992 yearbook picture:
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