Lily Tomlin is one of America's foremost comediennes who continues to successfully venture across an ever-widening range of media. Extending an extraordinary entertainment career that spans many years.
Tomlin, of course, has starred in motion pictures, television, animation, theater and video. Tomlin has received numerous awards: six Emmys, a Special Tony for her one woman Broadway show, "Appearing Nightly," a second Tony as Best Actress, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics' Circle Award in 1986 for her one woman performance in Jane Wagner's, "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," a Grammy for her comedy album, "This is a Recording," two Peabody awards, the first for the ABC television special, "Edith Ann's Christmas: Just Say Noel" and a second Peabody for narrating and executive producing the HBO telefilm "The Celluloid Closet."
Most recently Tomlin starred opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Jenna Elfman in Buena Vista's "Krippendorf's Tribe" (1998).
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