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Lily Tomlin Bio, Age, Height, Family, Wife, Movies, Net Worth And TV Shows

Lily Tomlin Biography

Lily Tomlin (Mary Jean Tomlin)is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin began her career as a stand-up comic and as well as performing Off-Broadway during the 1960s.

Her breakthrough role was on the variety show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In from 1969 until 1973. She is currently cast on the Netflix series Grace and Frankie as Frankie Bergstein; the role has garnered her four consecutive Emmy nominations since 2015.

Lily Tomlin Age

She was born on September 1, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Lily is 84 years old as of September 2023.

Lily Tomlin Height

Tomlin stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall.

Lily Tomlin Family

Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan, U.S to her loving parents Lillie Mae Ford(mother) and Guy Tomlin(father). Tomlin’s parents, adherents of the Southern Baptist faith, relocated from Paducah, Kentucky, to Detroit amidst the Great Depression. She has a younger brother Richard Tomlin.

Lily Tomlin Wife

Tomlin and Wagner married in a private ceremony in Los Angeles on December 31, 2013, after 42 years together. Tomlin met wife, writer Jane Wagner, in March 1971.

Lily Tomlin

After watching the after-school TV special “J.T.” written by Wagner, Tomlin invited her to Los Angeles to collaborate on Tomlin’s comedy LP record album And That’s The Truth. The couple did not have a formal coming out.

Lily Tomlin Net Worth

Tomlin has an estimated net worth of about $20 million dollars.

Lily Tomlin Movies And TV Shows

Tomlin was cast by Robert Altman in her first film in 1974; her performance as Linnea Reese in Nashville won her several awards and even nominations for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her 1977 performance as Margo Sperling in The Late Show won her the Best Actress Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and nominations for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Lead Actress. Her other notable films include 9 to 5 (1980), All of Me (1984), Big Business (1988), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Tea with Mussolini (1999), I Heart Huckabees (2004), and Grandma (2015).

She has had her signature role written by her then partner (now wife), Jane Wagner, in a show titled The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe which opened on Broadway in 1985 and won Tomlin the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play. Lily is also known as the voice of Ms. Frizzle on the children’s series The Magic School Bus.

Lily Tomlin Movies

Year Title Role  
1972 Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers Telephone Voice  
1975 Nashville Linnea Reese  
1977 The Late Show Margo Sperling  
1978 Moment by Moment Trisha Rawlings  
1980 9 to 5 Violet Newstead  
1981 The Incredible Shrinking Woman Pat Kramer / Judith Beasley  
1984 All of Me Edwina Cutwater  
1988 Big Business Rose Shelton / Rose Ratliff  
1991 The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Trudy, et al.  
1992 Shadows and Fog Prostitute  
1992 The Player Herself  
1993 The Beverly Hillbillies Miss Jane Hathaway  
1993 Short Cuts Doreen Piggot  
1995 Blue in the Face Waffle eater  
1995 The Celluloid Closet Narrator
1996 Getting Away with Murder Inga Mueller  
1996 Flirting with Disaster Mary Schlichting  
1998 Krippendorf’s Tribe Prof. Ruth Allen  
1999 Tea with Mussolini Georgie Rockwell  
2000 The Kid Janet  
2002 Orange County Charlotte Cobb  
2004 I ♥ Huckabees Vivian Jaffe  
2006 A Prairie Home Companion Rhonda Johnson  
2006 The Ant Bully Mommo  
2007 The Walker Abigail  
2009 The Pink Panther 2 Mrs. Yvette Berenger  
2009 Ponyo Toki  
2012 Stars in Shorts Mum  
2013 Admission Susannah  
2015 Grandma Elle Reid  
2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Aunt May Parker (voice)

Lily Tomlin Jane Wagner

The couple’s work is so closely tied together that they were honored with a joint star in 2012 on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars. “I knew we were going to get something great because these days, you go any place and you don’t know if you’re going to get a vaginal probe,” Wagner said during their acceptance speech. “We felt safe here. I rarely get included in these honors.”

Jane Fonda Lily Tomlin

No. of seasons: 4
No. of episodes: 52 (list of episodes)
Original release: May 8, 2015 – present

The series stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in the title roles of Grace and Frankie, two unlikely friends who are brought together after their husbands announce that they are in love with each other and plan to get married.

Is Lily Tomlin Gay

Yes

Lily Tomlin Tour

She is not touring now.

Lily Tomlin Operator

Comedian Lily Tomlin brings her iconic character, telephone operator Ernestine, to deflect criticism at SeaWorld.

Lily Tomlin Show

 
Year TV Show Role
1966–67 The Garry Moore Show Regular
1969 Letters to Laugh-In Panelist
1969 The Music Scene Hostess, also did skits such as the “Eraser Freak”
1969–73 Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In Ernestine, the telephone operator; five-year-old Edith Ann; tasteful lady; other characters
1973 Lily Herself
1973 The Carol Burnett Show Herself
1973 The Electric Company Ernestine
1975 The Lily Tomlin Special Herself
1976–77 Saturday Night Live Host/Ernestine/Various
1977 The Paul Simon Special Herself
1977 Lily Tomlin in Appearing Nitely Herself
1979 Sesame Street Edith Ann
1981 Lily: Sold Out Herself
1982 Lily Tomlin For President? Herself
1984 Pryor’s Place Herself
1993 And the Band Played On Dr. Selma Dritz
1994 Frasier Rita (voice)
1994–97 The Magic School Bus Ms. Vallery “Val” Frizzle/The Frizz
1996 Homicide: Life on the Street Rose Halligan
1996–98 Murphy Brown Kay Carter-Shepley
1998 The X-Files Lyda
2000 Bette Herself
2002–06 The West Wing Deborah Fiderer
2005 The Simpsons Tammy (voice)
2005–06 Will & Grace Margot
2008 12 Miles of Bad Road Amelia Shakespeare
2008–09 Desperate Housewives Roberta Simmons
2010 Damages Marilyn Tobin
2011 NCIS Penelope Langston
2011–15 Web Therapy Putsy Hodge
2012 Eastbound & Down Tammy Powers
2012–13 Malibu Country Lillie Mae
2015–present Grace and Frankie Frankie Bergstein
2017 The Magic School Bus Rides Again Professor Frizzle
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