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Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin started her career in stand-up comedy and sketch comedy before transitioning her career to acting across stage and screen. In a career spanning more than fifty years, Tomlin has received numerous accolades, including seven Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, two Tony Awards, and a nomination for an Academy Awar…
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culture · American actress (born 1939) · stage actor · film actor · television actor · voice actor · writer · screenwriter · also Lily Tomlin, Mary Jean Tomlin, Tomlin
Born 1 September 1939 · Q229271
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2026· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
Tomlin received the Career Achievement Peabody Award
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2018· 1 entry
Had a small role voicing Aunt May in the critically acclaimed animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (2017).
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2016· 1 entry
For a TV ad as part of PETA's campaign against SeaWorld
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2015· 2 entries
Tomlin starred in filmmaker Paul Weitz's film Grandma, which Weitz said was inspired by Tomlin
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Tomlin said, "I wasn't totally forthcoming
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2014).
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And the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2017
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2013· 3 entries
Tomlin and Wagner married in a private ceremony in Los Angeles after 42 years together
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for An Apology to Elephants (2013).
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Tomlin and Wagner worked together on the film An Apology to Elephants, which Wagner wrote and Tomlin narrated
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2012· 3 entries
Twenty days after the onscreen death from cancer of her character, Karen McCluskey
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Tomlin and her partner Jane Wagner received a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars
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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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2010· 1 entry
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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2008· 4 entries
Tomlin has been a contributor for wowOwow
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Tomlin stated in 2008, "Everybody in the industry was certainly aware of my sexuality and of Jane ... in interviews, I always reference Jane and talk about Jane, but they don't always write about it." In 2015, Tomlin said, "I wasn't totally forthcoming.
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"Everybody in the industry was certainly aware of my sexuality and of Jane
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“Everybody in the industry was certainly aware of my sexuality and of Jane ... in interviews, I always reference Jane and talk about Jane, but they don”
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2005· 1 entry
And 2006, she had a recurring role as Will Truman's boss Margot on Will & Grace
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2003· 4 entries
Awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2003).
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Awarded Lucy Award (2003).
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Was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and was recognized again by Women in Film with the Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perceptio
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Made two commercials as an "updated" Ernestine for WebEx
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2000· 1 entry
Which then toured the country through mid-2002
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Michigan Women's Hall of Fame (1998).
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In episode 6 ("How The Ghosts Stole Christmas") of season 6 as a ghost haunting an old mansion
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1995· 1 entry
Appeared on an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street as a murder suspect being transported to Baltimore
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1994· 1 entry
Interrupting a speech being given on the information superhighway by then-Vice President Al Gore
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Crystal Award (1992).
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Was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award
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1989· 1 entry
Won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1986).
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1985· 2 entries
Tomlin starred in another one-woman Broadway show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, written by her long-time life partner, writer/producer Jane Wagner
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And earned Tomlin the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
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1982· 1 entry
But later popularized by a Saturday Night Live appearance on January 22, 1983, she premiered Purvis Hawkins, a black rhythm-and-blues soul singer (patterned after Luther Vandross), with a mustache, beard, and close-cropp
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
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
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1979· 1 entry
“I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.”
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1977· 4 entries
Earned Silver Bear for Best Actress (1977).
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Awarded Special Tony Award (1977).
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Her performance as Margo Sperling in The Late Show won her the Silver Bear for Best Actress and nominations for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actress
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And later won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the one-woman play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1986)
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1976· 1 entry
Appeared on Saturday Night Live as Ernestine in a Ma Bell advertisement parody in which she proclaimed, "We don't care, we don't have to
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1975· 1 entry
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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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for This Is a Recording (1972).
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1970· 1 entry
AT&T offered Tomlin $500,000 to play her character Ernestine in a commercial, but she declined, saying it would compromise her artistic integrity
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1969· 1 entry
After a stint as a hostess on the ABC series Music Scene, Tomlin joined NBC's sketch comedy show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-09-01.
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