His mother Colleen Murphy Donaghy has nagged him his whole life, going so far as to blame him for John F. Kennedy 's death and that, again when he was two, his father left the family.
From 2008-2013, she was nominated for an Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy for her role as Colleen Donaghy, the mother of Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock. In 1993, she won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order.
her a Drama Desk prize as well. The show was re-created for television, for which Stritch collected the second of her three career Emmys. (The first was for a guest stint on Law & Order, the last for playing Alec Baldwin's character's caustic, overbearing mother Colleen Donaghy on NBC's 30 Rock.)