Jane Krakowski (born October 11, 1968) is an American actress and singer. She is known in television for her roles as Elaine Vassal on Ally McBeal and Jenna Maroney on 30 Rock, and in the theatre for her role in Nine.

Krakowski was born Jane Krajkowski in Parsippany, New Jersey, the daughter of Barbara, a college theater instructor and producing artistic director for the Women's Theater Company, and Ed Krajkowski, a chemical engineer. She has an older brother. Krakowski's father's family is entirely Polish and comes from Kraków, and although she knows few words in Polish, her father and grandparents are fluent. The Krakowski family celebrate Christmas in the traditional Polish manner and her grandmother makes special dishes, like gołąbki. Krakowski often attends the Twelve Chairs restaurant in SoHo, where they serve Polish meals. Krakowski grew up very much immersed in the local theater scene as a result of her parents' activities, saying in one interview "Instead of hiring baby sitters, they brought me along with them." She took ballet lessons from age four, but later stopped because she was the wrong body shape, instead moving more towards Broadway dancing. She attended the Professional Children's School in New York City

She dropped the "j" from the family last name when she began working as an actress as people kept trying to pronounce the letter even though it was silent.