Photo Coverage: Jane Krakowski Lights Up the Empire State Building for Charity

The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation's founders, Susan and Morrie Golick, were also on hand to help Krakowski with the lighting.

Tony Award winner and two-time Emmy nominee Jane Krakowski currently stars as "Jenna Maroney" in NBC's Emmy Award-winning 30 Rock. Jane, along with the 30 Rock cast, won the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. In 2010 and 2009, she received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

This summer, Jane released her solo debut album, "The Laziest Gal in Town," a CD recording captured during her cabaret nightclub debut at the Park Avenue hotspot Feinstein's at Lowes Regency. 

She earned her first Tony nomination for her work in the production of Grand Hotel. Other Broadway credits include Company, Once Upon a Mattress, Tartuffe and Starlight Express. In the summer of 2008, she starred in the Encores revival of Damn Yankees opposite Sean Hayes.

During her five-year stint on the Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild award-winning series Ally McBeal, Jane received a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of "Elaine Vassal."

Making her film debut as "Cousin Vickie" in National Lampoon's Vacation (with Chevy Chase), Jane has also starred alongside Jude Law in Alfie (the remake of the famous 1966 film), Pretty Persuasion (with Evan Rachel Wood and James Woods), and co-starred, opposite Abigail Breslin in the family film Kit Kittredge: All American Girl. Most recently, she appeared in the Universal feature The Vampire Diaries: Cirque du Freak (directed by Paul Weitz).

The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation provides care for lupus patients and advocates awareness of and research about the disease.

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