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LILY TOMLIN
Lily Tomlin, one of America’s foremost comediennes, continues to successfully venture across an ever-widening range of media, extending an extraordinary entertainment career with a 29 city cross country tour in a revival of Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
Most recently, Tomlin co-starred in Disney’s the Kid opposite Bruce Willis and in the Franco Zeffirelli film Tea With Mussolini, with Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Cher. She has also guest starred on the popular series, The X-Files and continues to be the voice of the science teacher Ms. Frizzle on the popular children’s animated series, The Magic School Bus, for which she was awarded an Emmy.
Tomlin has received numerous awards: six Emmy’s, a Special Tony for her one woman Broadway show, Appearing Nightly, a second Tony as Best Actress 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 Christman: Just Say Noel and a second Peabody for narrating and executive producing the HBO telefilm The Celluliod Closet.
Tomlin has starred in numerous films, including Nashville (1975), for which she received an Oscar nomination, 9 to 5 (1980), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981), All of Me (1984), Flirting with Disaster (1996) and Krippendorf’s Tribe (1998). Audiences saw her last in Paramount’s Orange County opposite Colin Hanks and Catherine O’Hara which was released in January 2002.
