48 Facts About Lilly Tomlin

Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin was born on September 1,1939 and is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer.

Lilly Tomlin started her career as a stand-up comedian as well as performing off-Broadway during the 1960s.

Lilly Tomlin starred as Frankie Bergstein on the Netflix series Grace and Frankie, which debuted in 2015 and earned her nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.

In 1975, Lilly Tomlin made her film debut with Robert Altman's Nashville, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Lilly Tomlin won her first Emmy Awards in 1974 for writing and producing her own television special, Lily.

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Lilly Tomlin won a Grammy Award for her 1972 comedy album This Is a Recording.

Lilly Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Lillie Mae, a housewife and nurse's aide, and Guy Lilly Tomlin, a factory worker.

Lilly Tomlin's parents were Southern Baptists who moved to Detroit from Paducah, Kentucky, during the Great Depression.

Lilly Tomlin is a 1957 graduate of Cass Technical High School.

Lilly Tomlin auditioned for a play, and it sparked her interest in a career in the theatre and she changed her major.

In 1969, after a stint as a hostess on the ABC series Music Scene, Lilly Tomlin joined NBC's sketch comedy show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

Lilly Tomlin was one of the first female comedians to break out in male drag with her characters Tommy Velour and Rick.

Lilly Tomlin used very little, if any, skin-darkening cosmetics as part of the character, instead depending on stage lighting to create the effect.

Lilly Tomlin appeared as three of her minor characters in a 1998 ad campaign for Fidelity Investments that did not include Ernestine or Edith Ann.

Lilly Tomlin brought Edith Ann to the forefront again in the 1990s with three animated prime-time television specials.

Lilly Tomlin published Edith Ann's "autobiography" My Life, co-written with Jane Wagner.

In 1972, Lilly Tomlin released This Is A Recording, her first comedy album on Polydor Records in 1972 that contained Ernestine's run-ins with customers over the phone.

Lilly Tomlin earned a Grammy award that year for Best Comedy Recording.

Lilly Tomlin's 1977 release Lily Tomlin On Stage, was an adaptation of her Broadway show that year.

Lilly Tomlin made her dramatic debut in Robert Altman's Nashville, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; she played Linnea Reese, a straitlaced, gospel-singing mother of two deaf children who has an affair with a womanizing country singer.

In 1980, Tomlin co-starred in 9 to 5, in which she played a secretary named Violet Newstead who joins coworkers Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton in seeking revenge on their boss, Franklin M Hart, Jr.

Lilly Tomlin bounced back with the critical and financial hit All of Me, opposite Steve Martin, in which she played sickly heiress whose spirit became trapped in Martin's body.

Lilly Tomlin played chain-smoking waitress Doreen Piggott in Altman's 1993 ensemble film Short Cuts, based on stories by Raymond Carver.

Lilly Tomlin performed in two films by director David O Russell; she appeared as a peacenik Raku artist in Flirting with Disaster and later, as an existential detective in I Heart Huckabees.

Lilly Tomlin collaborated again with director Robert Altman in what would prove to be his last film, A Prairie Home Companion.

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Lilly Tomlin played Rhonda Johnson, one-half of a middle-aged Midwestern singing duo partnered with Meryl Streep.

Lilly Tomlin provided a voice for the film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, which was released in August 2009.

In 2015, Lilly Tomlin starred in filmmaker Paul Weitz's film, Grandma, which Weitz said was inspired by Lilly Tomlin.

In March 1977, Lilly Tomlin made her Broadway debut in the solo show Appearing Nitely, which she co-wrote and co-directed with Jane Wagner, at the Biltmore Theatre.

Lilly Tomlin's solo show then toured the country and was made into a record album titled On Stage.

Lilly Tomlin revived the show for a run on Broadway in 2000 which then toured the country through mid-2002.

Lilly Tomlin premiered her one-woman show Not Playing with a Full Deck at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in November 2009.

Also, in the 1990s, Lilly Tomlin appeared on the popular sitcom Murphy Brown as the title character's boss.

Lilly Tomlin guest starred on The X-Files in 1998, in episode 6 of season 6 as a ghost haunting an old mansion.

Lilly Tomlin appeared on the dramatic series The West Wing for four years in the recurring role of presidential secretary Deborah Fiderer.

Lilly Tomlin voiced Tammy in the 2005 The Simpsons episode "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas".

In 2010, Lilly Tomlin guest-starred as Marilyn Tobin in the third season of Damages opposite Glenn Close, for which she was nominated for an Emmy.

Lilly Tomlin appeared in the NCIS episode titled "The Penelope Papers", playing Penelope Langston, the grandmother of Agent Timothy McGee.

In 2012, Lilly Tomlin guest starred on the HBO series Eastbound and Down as Tammy Powers, mother of the main character Kenny Powers, and appeared in three episodes of Season 3.

Lilly Tomlin co-starred with Reba McEntire in the TV series Malibu Country as Reba's character's mother Lillie Mae.

Lilly Tomlin starred opposite Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, and Sam Waterston in the Netflix original series Grace and Frankie.

Lilly Tomlin plays Frankie Bergstein, recently separated from her husband of forty years while Fonda plays Grace Hanson, recently separated from her husband.

Lilly Tomlin received her first Emmy nomination in 2015 as a lead actress for the role.

Lilly Tomlin reprised her role as Professor Frizzle in the 2017 Netflix sequel The Magic School Bus Rides Again, a continuation of the original series.

Lilly Tomlin met her future wife, writer Jane Wagner, in March 1971.

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Lilly Tomlin was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1998.

In March 2009, Tomlin received Fenway Health's Dr Susan M Love Award for her contributions to women's health.

In January 2017 Lilly Tomlin won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild ceremony.