Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin was born on September 1,1939 and is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer.
53 Facts About Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin was awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014 and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2017.
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Lily Tomlin started her career as a stand-up comedian as well as performing off-Broadway during the 1960s.
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Lily Tomlin won Emmy Awards for the special, Lily, and received a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for This Is a Recording.
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In 1975, Lily Tomlin made her film debut with Robert Altman's Nashville, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Lily Tomlin is known for her collaborations with Jane Fonda starring in the films 9 to 5,80 for Brady, and Moving On.
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Lily Tomlin starred with Fonda Netflix series Grace and Frankie which ran from 2015 to 2022.
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Lily Tomlin earned her four Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nominations.
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Lily Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Lillie Mae, a housewife and nurse's aide, and Guy Lily Tomlin, a factory worker.
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Lily Tomlin's parents were Southern Baptists who moved to Detroit from Paducah, Kentucky, during the Great Depression.
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Lily Tomlin is a 1957 graduate of Cass Technical High School.
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Lily Tomlin auditioned for a play, and it sparked her interest in a career in the theatre and she changed her major.
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In 1969, after a stint as a hostess on the ABC series Music Scene, Lily Tomlin joined NBC's sketch comedy show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
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Lily Tomlin was one of the first female comedians to break out in male drag with her characters Tommy Velour and Rick.
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Lily Tomlin used very little, if any, skin-darkening cosmetics as part of the character, instead depending on stage lighting to create the effect.
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Lily Tomlin appeared as three of her minor characters in a 1998 ad campaign for Fidelity Investments that did not include Ernestine or Edith Ann.
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Lily Tomlin brought Edith Ann to the forefront again in the 1990s with three animated prime-time television specials.
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Lily Tomlin published Edith Ann's "autobiography" My Life, co-written with Jane Wagner.
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In 1972, Lily 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.
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Lily Tomlin earned a Grammy award that year for Best Comedy Recording.
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Lily Tomlin's 1977 release Lily Tomlin On Stage, was an adaptation of her Broadway show that year.
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Lily 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.
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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.
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Lily 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.
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Lily Tomlin played chain-smoking waitress Doreen Piggott in Altman's 1993 ensemble film Short Cuts, based on stories by Raymond Carver.
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Lily 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.
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Lily Tomlin collaborated again with director Robert Altman in what would prove to be his last film, A Prairie Home Companion.
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Lily Tomlin played Rhonda Johnson, one-half of a middle-aged Midwestern singing duo partnered with Meryl Streep.
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Lily Tomlin provided a voice for the film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, which was released in August 2009.
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In 2015, Lily Tomlin starred in filmmaker Paul Weitz's film, Grandma, which Weitz said was inspired by Lily Tomlin.
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In March 1977, Lily 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.
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Lily Tomlin received a Special Tony Award for this production.
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Lily Tomlin's solo show then toured the country and was made into a record album titled On Stage.
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Lily Tomlin revived the show for a run on Broadway in 2000 which then toured the country through mid-2002.
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Lily Tomlin premiered her one-woman show Not Playing with a Full Deck at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in November 2009.
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Also, in the 1990s, Lily Tomlin appeared on the popular sitcom Murphy Brown as the title character's boss.
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Lily Tomlin guest starred on The X-Files in 1998, in episode 6 of season 6 as a ghost haunting an old mansion.
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Lily Tomlin appeared on the dramatic series The West Wing for four years in the recurring role of presidential secretary Deborah Fiderer.
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Lily Tomlin voiced Tammy in the 2005 The Simpsons episode "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas".
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Since its launch in 2008, Lily Tomlin has been a contributor for wowOwow.
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In 2010, Lily Tomlin guest-starred as Marilyn Tobin in the third season of Damages opposite Glenn Close, for which she was nominated for an Emmy.
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Lily Tomlin appeared in the NCIS episode titled "The Penelope Papers", playing Penelope Langston, the grandmother of Agent Timothy McGee.
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In 2012, Lily 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.
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Lily Tomlin co-starred with Reba McEntire in the TV series Malibu Country as Reba's character's mother Lillie Mae.
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Lily Tomlin starred opposite Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, and Sam Waterston in the Netflix original series Grace and Frankie.
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Lily Tomlin plays Frankie Bergstein, recently separated from her husband of forty years while Fonda plays Grace Hanson, recently separated from her husband.
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Lily Tomlin received her first Emmy nomination in 2015 as a lead actress for the role.
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Lily Tomlin reprised her role as Professor Frizzle in the 2017 Netflix sequel The Magic School Bus Rides Again, a continuation of the original series.
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Lily Tomlin met her future wife, writer Jane Wagner, in March 1971.
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Lily Tomlin was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1998.
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In March 2009, Tomlin received Fenway Health's Dr Susan M Love Award for her contributions to women's health.
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In January 2017 Lily Tomlin won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild ceremony.
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Lily Tomlin has won six Emmy awards and a Daytime Emmy:.