This list is an article of Lily Tomlin's 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.