Tracy Jordan

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Tracy Jordan
Tracy Jordan.
First appearance	"Pilot"
Information
Gender	Male
Age	30s
Occupation	Movie star/comedian
Relationships	Angie Jordan (married since around 1990)
Children	At least two sons (names unknown), no daughters
Portrayed by	Tracy Morgan Elijah Cook (as a child in "The Source Awards")
Created by	Tina Fey

Tracy Jordan is a fictional character on the American television series 30 Rock, played by Tracy Morgan.

[edit] Personal history

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Tracy is a highly successful African-American movie star. In the pilot, he stated that he grew up in New York City, where he lived in foster care with two other boys and one girl in a low-class apartment, but, in "The Head and the Hair," he described himself as living in a house with a single mother in 1979. In the episode, Frank Rossitano reads on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia that Tracy was discovered after doing stand-up comedy at the Apollo Theater in 1984, but Tracy has no memory of this.

Tracy has made a string of rather bad movies, including:

Who Dat Ninja?, where he plays an African-American ninja.
Black Cop/White Cop ("One does the duty; the other gets the booty!"), in which he plays a Black cop who disguises himself as a White cop.
Honky Grandma be Trippin', in which he portrays a Black man who disguises himself as an overweight elderly White woman.
President Homeboy, in which he plays a Black president.

He was also in a Western in which his entire role was done without leaving his car.

He also tends to play multiple roles in his films, much like actors Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy. Tracy did a Christmas album in 1998 and is a big fan of Pat Benatar. In addition to his acting career, he writes a column in Ebony Magazine called "Musings". He owns several houses and later got into debt (owing Quincy Jones $75,000) because he didn't make the payments on them.

He mentioned in "Up All Night" that he's been married for seventeen years, implying that he was married around 1990. Tracy is married to Angie Jordan. According to Tracy, he and Angie like to role-play, including 'playing' rape. Tracy mentioned in "Tracy Does Conan" that he often walks around his house naked to show his oldest boy "who got the biggest ding-dong".

When Jack Donaghy is made the new Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming at NBC, he forces Liz Lemon, the head writer of The Girlie Show, to hire Tracy as the show's new star. When Tracy joins the cast, the show is re-named TGS with Tracy Jordan. Jack is constantly doing anything that he can to keep Tracy happy, but most of the cast and writing staff is unhappy with Jack's decision to hire Tracy because they do not respect his unprofessional demeanor or his film career. However, writer Frank Rossitano enjoys Tracy's films. Jenna Maroney, another actress on the show, feels upstaged by Tracy and becomes angry when she learns that he does not even know her name.

Tracy is unpredictable and mentally unstable. He is known in the media for his unpredictability and for being responsible for many minor controversies. These incidents include:

Running down the 405 Freeway in his underwear while shouting "I am a Jedi!".
Trying to stab talk show host Conan O'Brien and claiming to be a robot while he was being interviewed on his show.
Getting arrested for walking naked through LaGuardia Airport.
Falling asleep on Ted Danson's roof.
Biting actress Dakota Fanning on the face.

He is being treated for his mental problems by Dr. Leo Spaceman (whose name Tracy pronounces literally despite all the other characters pronouncing it "spuh-cheh-min", played by Chris Parnell). Dr. Spaceman describes Tracy's problems as "erratic tendencies and delusions brought on by excessive notoriety". Prior to appeearing on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Jordan had reactions to the various medications he is on, causing delusions of a blue creature that Jordan referred to as 'The Blue Man'.

Tracy often lurks around the studio with his two friends/bodyguards Dot Com (portrayed by Kevin Brown) and Grizz (portrayed by Grizz Chapman).

Tracy always refers to Liz by either her last name or her full name. He seems to have little or no respect for her or her job, generally only communicating with her when he asks/demands for things to go his way. He also considers saying "Hi, I'm Liz Lemon! I like to wear man shirts! Watch me skateboard!" in a high-pitched voice to be a stinging impersonation of her, despite the fact that she doesn't skateboard.

In "The Source Awards," he mentioned that, as a child, he was a castmember on the Nickelodeon show Ray Ray's Mystery Garage. Tracy also mentions that he thinks of himself as Kenneth's mentor.