Lily Tomlin

Lily Tomlin

actress, producer, writer

Lily Tomlin was born on Sep 01, 1939 in USA. Lily Tomlin's big-screen debut came with Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - Season 3 directed by Mark Warren in 1969. Lily Tomlin is known for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse directed by Bob Persichetti, Shameik Moore stars as Miles Morales and Jake Johnson as Peter B. Parker. Lily Tomlin has got 46 awards and 75 nominations so far. The most recent award Lily Tomlin achieved is AARP Movies for Grownups Awards. The upcoming new movie Lily Tomlin plays is The Road Home which will be released on Dec 31, 2023.

Lily Tomlin was born September 1, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, to Lillie Mae (Ford) and Guy Tomlin, who moved to Michigan from Paducah, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. Her mother was a nurse's aide and her father was a factory worker. She graduated from Cass Technical High School in 1957, and later enrolled at Wayne State University. She began career by doing stand-up comedy in nightclubs in Detroit and New York City. Her first television appearance was on "The Merv Griffin Show". She went on to have astronomical success with several characters, notably Ernestine, a nosy, condescending telephone operator who generally treated customers with little sympathy and regard, on Laugh-In (1967). Other notable characters are in film include Linnea Reese, a gospel-singing mother of two deaf children who has an affair with a womanizing country singer (played by (Keith Carradine) in Robert Altman's Nashville (1975), a performance for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. Violet Newstead who joins her on-screen coworkers (played by Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton) in seeking revenge on their monstrous and sexist boss, Franklin M. Hart Jr., (played by Dabney Coleman) in the comedy Comment se débarrasser de son patron (1980), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981), Doreen Piggot in Robert Altman's Short Cuts - Les Américains (1993), Cher's best-friend and American compatriot Georgie Rockwell in Un thé avec Mussolini (1999), deadpan private investigator, and existentialist Vivian Jaffe in J'adore Huckabees (2004), and Country-Western singer Rhonda Johnson in Robert Altman's final film The Last Show (2006).

  • Birthday

    Sep 01, 1939
  • Place of Birth

    Detroit, Michigan, USA
  • Also known

    Mary Jean Tomlin

Known For

Awards

46 wins & 75 nominations

AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
2022
Winner - Career Achievement Award
2022
Best Actress - Television
Winner - Career Achievement Award
2016
Best Actress
Winner - Movies for Grownups Award
Grandma (2015)
The Queerties
2020
Love is Great
Winner - Queerty
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