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Lily Tomlin

Lily Tomlin's biography

Lily Tomlin is 83 years old stage actor born on on Friday 1st of September 1939. She is often nicknamed as Lily. According to year of birth 1939 she belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 1st of September means she is Virgo. Virgo is an earthy sign of Zodiac Belt. People born under this Rising Sign are practical in nature. They believe in reality and represents themselves as a strong person.

She is citizen of United States of America. Her primary profession is to be stage actor. You can know her also as film actor, television actor, voice actor, writer. She is recently known as screenwriter. She received Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special Lily in 1974

Lily Tomlin's family

Lily Tomlin's wife

She is known as screenwriter. Her wife was born on Saturday 2nd of February 1935 in Morristown.

Lily Tomlin's ex wife

Lily Tomlin's schools

We found 4 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: Wayne State University, Cass Technical High School, HB Studio, Wayne State University College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts.

Lily Tomlin's career

Her main focus is to be stage actor.

Is Lily Tomlin gay ?

She is known to be lesbianism.

Awards and competitions

Lily Tomlin's Awards

  • Won a Grammy Award for the comedy album "This is a Recording" in 1971 and won Tony Awards in 1977 and 1986.
  • With Meryl Streep presented Robert Altman with his honorary Oscar on March 5th, 2006 at the 78th Academy Awards ceremony.
  • In 2002, Lily Tomlin was The Women's Image Network (WIN) Awards Lifetime Achievement Honoree which Director David O. Russell presented onstage as an opera singer serenading Lily on his one bended knee.
  • Nominated in the Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series, "Eastbound & Down", at The Women's Image Network (WIN) Awards 2012.
  • "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 2003 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Touring Production.
  • Nominated for the 2018 Emmy Award in the Lead Actress in a Comedy Series category for her role as Frankie Bergstein in Grace and Frankie (2015), but lost to Rachel Brosnahan from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017).

Lily Tomlin's Nominations

  • She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work Nashville in 1975

What Lily Tomlin has done for a first time

  • One of her first "professional" gigs was as a waitress in Howard Johnson's on Broadway near Times Square. Her comments to customers and staff heard over the eatery's microphone attracted her first big-city audience.

Lily Tomlin's quotes

  • There will be sex after death - we just won't be able to feel it.
  • Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
  • The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
  • If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.
  • If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
  • I had a friend who was getting married. I gave her a subscription to the magazine "Modern Bride". The subscription lasted longer than the marriage.
  • Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
  • [on John Travolta] Maybe the major thing is how sensual he is. And sexy too. The sensitivity and the sexuality are very strong. It's as if he had every dichotomy -- masculinity, femininity, refinement, crudity. You see him, you fall in love a little bit.
  • Just remember. We're all in this alone.
  • I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody
  • [on Jane Wagner] She can express in words what I feel about the world, about humans, about the struggle that we're in - and, presumably, not the inevitability of it all, something that I know speaks to other people.
  • See also Other Works |  Publicity Listings |  Official Sites

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