page_title: Lily Tomlin
section_title: Selected list
hierarchical_section_title: Lily Tomlin / Awards / Selected list
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor from Tomlin's 1973 CBS Television special, Lily.
context_page_description: Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin started her career as a stand-up comedian as well as performing Off-Broadway during the 1960s. Her breakout role was on the variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1969 until 1973. She currently stars as Frankie Bergstein on the Netflix series Grace and Frankie, which debuted in 2015 and has earned her nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
  In 1974, Tomlin was cast by Robert Altman in her first film; her performance as Linnea Reese in Nashville won her several awards and nominations for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
  In 1977, her performance as Margo Sperling in The Late Show won her the Best Actress Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and nominations for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Lead Actress. Her other notable films include 9 to 5, All of Me, Big Business, Flirting with Disaster, Tea with Mussolini, I Heart Huckabees, and Grandma.
context_section_description: Tony Awards
  1986 Best Actress in a Play, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
  1977 Special Tony Award, Lifetime Achievement
  Grammy Awards
  1972 Best Comedy Album, This Is A Recording
  Emmy Awards
  Tomlin has won six Emmy awards and a Daytime Emmy:
  1981 Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series, Lily: Sold Out (ABC)
  Lily Tomlin, executive producer and star; Rocco Urbisci, producer; Jane Wagner, executive producer
  1974 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music Special, Lily (1973) (CBS)
  Jerry McPhie, Irene Pinn, Herbert Sargent
  Outstanding Writing—Comedy-Variety or Music Special
  1974 Lily (CBS)
  Rosalyn Drexler, Ann Elder, Karyl Geld, Robert Illes,  Lorne Michaels, Richard Pryor, Jim Rusk, Herb Sargent, James R. Stein, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren, George Yanok, writers
  1976 Lily Tomlin (ABC)
  Ann Elder, Christopher Guest, Lorne Michaels, Earl Pomerantz, Jim Rusk, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren, George Yanok, writers. Additionally, Lily (1973; above), in which she starred but did not produce, won for Outstanding Comedy-Variety, Variety Or Music Special, 1974 Jerry McPhie, Herb Sargent, producers; Irene Pinn, executive producer
  1978 The Paul Simon Special (NBC)
  Chevy Chase, Tom Davis, Al Franken, Charles Grodin, Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin, Alan Zweibel, writers
  Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
  2013 An Apology to Elephants
  Daytime Emmy Award
  1995 Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program, The Magic School Bus: Season 1
  Screen Actors Guild Awards
  2017 Lifetime Achievement Award
caption: Alan Alda, Tomlin and Richard Pryor in Lily (1973)
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