Samantha Jayne
Birthdate – January 1, 1990 (34 Years Old)
Birthplace – New Jersey
Samantha Jayne (birthname: Samantha Jayne Siegel) is best known as the co-creator, with her husband Arturo Perez Jr., and star of Quarter Life Poetry (2019), a limited series aired as part of FX’s 2020 anthology show, Cake. Previously, Jayne wrote the book, Quarter Life Poetry: Poems for the Young, Broke and Hangry, published by Grand Central Publishing in 2016.
Before its presentation on FX, episodes of the series first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Samantha Jayne co-directed (with Perez Jr.) the Tina Fey-written screenplay version of her book for the Broadway musical Mean Girls (2024), produced by Lorne Michaels and Fey and with the ensemble of Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp, Auli’I Cravalho, Fey, Tim Meadows, Jenna Fischer, Busy Phillips, and Jon Hamm, and released by Paramount Pictures.
Personal Details
Samantha Jayne was born and raised in New Jersey by her parents. After her K-12 education, Jayne attended and graduated in 2011 from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, leading to posts as an art director in the advertising industry. At the same time, Jayne was fascinated with the drawings and cartoons of Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein, which she adopted as a model for rhyming poetry quips. Jayne is married to filmmaker Arturo Perez Jr.
Filmography
Mean Girls
(2024)
Some Facts About Samantha Jayne
Social Media Phenomenon: Samantha Jayne began what became a book of short quatrain poems and cartoons titled Quarter Life Poetry: Poems for the Young, Broke and Hangry, as a series of rhyming Instagram and Tumblr posts generated on Google Doc about the travails of Millennial life in the ‘20s, and then became viral.
Upbringing: Jayne has commented “I grew up with a lot of shame and my negative self-talk was always very strong. It took years to be able to talk about my anxieties with friends…and I realized that they are more prevalent than I thought.”
