Lily Tomlin filmography

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Lily Tomlin is an American actress and entertainer who has had various performances on stage and screen throughout a career spanning almost seven decades since 1965; various of which earned her numerous accolades and honors.

She started her career acting on variety sketch programs such as The Garry Moore Show (1966–1967), Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1969–1973), The Carol Burnett Show (1973) and Saturday Night Live (1976–1977). She voiced Ms. Valerie "Val" Frizzle in The Magic School Bus (1994–1997) and The Magic School Bus Rides Again (2017–2018). She starred in and executive produced the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie from 2015 to 2022. During her career she also took recurring roles in Murphy Brown (1996–1998), The West Wing (2002–2006) and Desperate Housewives (2008–2009).

Tomlin made her film debut in the Robert Altman film Nashville (1975). She then starred in the successful comedy films The Late Show (1977), 9 to 5 (1980), and All of Me (1984). She took supporting roles in Shadows and Fog (1991), Short Cuts (1993), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Tea with Mussolini (1999), I Heart Huckabees (2004), and A Prairie Home Companion (2006). She recently starred in Grandma (2015), Moving On (2022), and 80 for Brady (2023).

She made her Broadway debut acting, writing and directing the play Appearing Nitely (1977). She played various roles in her one woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe in 1985 and again in 2000 both on Broadway.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
1972Scarecrow in a Garden of CucumbersTelephone VoiceUncredited
1975 Nashville Linnea Reese [1]
1977 The Late Show Margo Sperling [1]
1978 Moment by Moment Trisha Rawlings [1]
1980 9 to 5 Violet Newstead [1]
1981 The Incredible Shrinking Woman Pat Kramer / Judith Beasley [1]
1984 All of Me Edwina Cutwater [1]
1988 Big Business Rose Shelton / Rose Ratliff [1]
1991 The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Trudy, et al. [1]
1992 Shadows and Fog Jenny (Prostitute) [1]
The Player Herself [1]
1993 The Beverly Hillbillies Miss Jane Hathaway [1]
Short Cuts Doreen Piggot [1]
1995 Blue in the Face Waffle Eater [1]
The Celluloid Closet NarratorVoice [1]
1996 Getting Away with Murder Inga Mueller [1]
Flirting with Disaster Mary Schlichting [1]
1998 Krippendorf's Tribe Professor Ruth Allen [1]
1999 Get Bruce HerselfDocumentary
Tea with Mussolini Georgie Rockwell [1]
2000 The Kid Janet [1]
2002 Orange County Charlotte Cobb [1]
2004 I Heart Huckabees Vivian Jaffe [1]
2006 A Prairie Home Companion Rhonda Johnson [1]
The Ant Bully MommoVoice [2]
2007 The Walker Abigail DeLorean [1]
2009 The Pink Panther 2 Mrs. Yvette Berenger [1]
Ponyo TokiVoice, English dub [1]
2012 Stars in Shorts MumSegment: "The Procession" [1]
2013 Admission Susannah [1]
2015 Grandma Elle Reid [1]
2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse May Parker Voice [2]
2022 Moving On Evelyn
2023 80 for Brady Lou

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
1966–67 The Garry Moore Show RegularUnknown episodes
1969 Letters to Laugh-In Panelist
The Music Scene Hostess, Various characters
1969–73 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Various charactersEpisode: "Guest Starring Peter Lawford Again"
1973 Lily HerselfTelevision special
The Carol Burnett Show Episode: "Steve Lawrence and Lily Tomlin"
The Electric Company ErnestineEpisode: "Ernestine the Operator"
1974 Woman Alive! HerselfTelevision special
1975The Lily Tomlin Special
1976–77 Saturday Night Live Host / Ernestine / Various4 episodes
1977The Paul Simon SpecialHerselfTelevision special
Lily Tomlin in Appearing Nitely
1979–83 Sesame Street Edith Ann3 episodes
1981Lily: Sold OutHerselfTelevision special
1982Lily for President?
1984 Pryor's Place Episode: "Cousin Rita"
1993 And the Band Played On Dr. Selma Dritz HBO television film
1994 Frasier RitaVoice, episode: "The Unkindest Cut of All" [2]
1994–97 The Magic School Bus Ms. Valerie "Val" Frizzle / The FrizzVoice, main role [2]
1996 Homicide: Life on the Street Rose HalliganEpisode: The Hat
1996–98 Murphy Brown Kay Carter-Shepley46 episodes
1998 The X-Files LydaEpisode: "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"
2000 Bette HerselfEpisode: "Silent But Deadly"
2002–06 The West Wing Deborah Fiderer 35 episodes
2005 The Simpsons TammyVoice, episode: "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"
2005–06 Will & Grace MargotEpisodes: "Partners" and "Forbidden Fruit"
2008 12 Miles of Bad Road Amelia Shakespeare6 episodes
2008–09 Desperate Housewives Roberta Simonds
2010 Damages Marilyn Tobin10 episodes
2011 NCIS Penelope LangstonEpisode: "The Penelope Papers"
2011–15 Web Therapy Putsy Hodge15 episodes
2012 Eastbound & Down Tammy Powers3 episodes
2012–13 Malibu Country Lillie Mae18 episodes
2015–22 Grace and Frankie Frankie BergsteinMain role; 94 episodes; also executive producer
2017–18 The Magic School Bus Rides Again Professor FrizzleVoice; 26 episodes [2]
2020 The Ellen DeGeneres Show Herself (guest host)Episode: "January 17, 2020"
2023 Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love Herself NBC Television special

Theatre

YearTitleRolePlaywrightVenueRef.
1977Appearing NitelyPerformerAlso writer / Director Biltmore Theatre, Broadway [3]
1985 The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Performer / Various Jane Wagner Plymouth Theatre, Broadway [4]
2000 Booth Theatre, Broadway [5]

Discography

Albums

YearAlbum Billboard 200
[6] 		Label
1972 This Is A Recording 15 Polydor Records
And That's the Truth 41
1975Modern Scream—
1978On Stage120 Arista Records
200320th Century Masters: The Best of Lily Tomlin—Polydor Records

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 "Lily Tomlin - Turner Classic Movies". Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Lily Tomlin (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved September 18, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
  3. ↑ "Appearing Nitely (Broadway)". Playbill. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  4. ↑ "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Broadway, 1985)". Playbill. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  5. ↑ "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Broadway, 2000)". Playbill. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
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