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Mary Jean “Lily” Tomlin Wiki Biography

Mary Jean “Lily” Tomlin was born on the 1st September 1939 in Detroit, Michigan USA, and is an actress probably now best known for her role as Frankie Bergstein in the Netflix series “Grace And Frankie” (2015). She has also appeared in a number of films and TV series, particularly “Nashville” (1975), “Big Business” (1988), “Murphy Brown” (1996-1998), and “The West Wing” (2002-2006). She has been an active member of the entertainment industry since 1965.

Have you ever wondered how rich Lily Tomlin is as of mid-2017? According to sources it has been estimated that the overall size of Lily’s net worth is $20 million, an amount earned through her successful career in the entertainment industry.

Lily Tomlin was born to Lillie Mae and Guy Tomlin, and attended Cass Technical High School, receiving her diploma in 1957. She enrolled at Wayne State University and studied Biology. After graduation, Lily decided to try an acting career, and she went to audition for a play, soon after which she dived into stand-up comedy.

Lily`s career beginnings trace back to the mid 1960s, when she performed as a stand-up comedian off-Broadway. She slowly climbed her way up the ladder, and in 1970 became a member of the show “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In”, which aired until 1973. Lily received several nominations for her appearance in the show, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Since that appearance, her career has only gone upwards, and so has her net worth, as it became rather easy for her to acquire roles in high production films and TV series.

Two years later Lily earned her first film appearance, as Linnea Rese in the film “Nashville” (1975), directed by Robert Altman. During the 1970s, Lily was featured in the films and shows “The Late Show” (1977), “Sesame Street” (1976-1988), and she also had her own show entitled “Lily” (1973), for which she won the Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.

She proved herself in 1970s, and just continued with successful appearances throughout the 1980s, which included such films as “All Of Me” (1984) as Edwina Cutwater alongside Steve Martin and Victoria Tennant, “9 To 5” (1980) with Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton, and “The Incredible Shrinking Woman” (1981) with Charles Grodin and Ned Beaty.

Furthermore, she appeared in the film “Big Business” (1988), directed by Jim Abrahams, and which also featured actors such as Bette Midler and Fred Ward in the lead roles.

Lily`s net worth also rose through 1990s, as she appeared in successful films such as “Short Cuts” (1993), “Flirting With Disaster” (1996), “Tea With Mussolini” (1999), and the TV series “And The Band Played On” (1993), and also lent her voice to Ms. Valerie Frizzle of the popular animated show “The Magic School Bus” (1994-2002), and numerous others productions, all of which positively affected her net worth.

To speak further of her accomplishments, aging didn`t stop her continuing with acting, as she was featured in such films as “Prairie Old Companion” (2006) as Rhonda Johnson alongside other successful actors like Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson and Tommy Lee Jones, among others, “The West Wing” (2002-2006) as Deborah Fiderer, and “Eastbound And Down” (2012), among others.

Most recently, she has appeared in the film “Grandma” (2015), and she is to appear in the film “The Road Home”, which is scheduled for a release sometime in 2016. She has also been a part of the comedy series “Grace And Frankie” (2015-2016), and as well starred in the TV series “Web Therapy” (2011-2015), which also benefited her net worth.

Regarding her personal life, Lily Tomlin was in a relationship with producer and writer Jane Wagner for 42 years, and they finally decided to marry in a private ceremony on New Year’s Eve in 2013. Their current residence is in Los Angeles, California.

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Mary Jean “Lily” Tomlin Quick Info

Mary Jean “Lily” Tomlin Trademarks

1. She is still best known for her Laugh-In (1967) characters, Edith Ann, a precocious 5 1/2 year old girl in an oversize rocking chair, and Ernestine, a telephone operator.

Mary Jean “Lily” Tomlin Quotes

• I’ve lived a long time, and I’ve always had to make my own way. I remember when I was eighteen, Ray Valente who was head of casting at Screen Gems, said, ‘Lily, some day there will be parts for gals like you’ and I said I couldn’t wait that long. So I started making my own parts.
• You have to cultivate an audience to think more about women. Too many people think about women as necessary, but not ‘so’ necessary. They are as necessary as we need them to be. The power structure doesn’t give it up that easy. Even at Sundance, only 25% of the films have women behind the camera in some kind of way. It’s slow because you’ve got to get women in positions of power to extend that hand and get funding for women-led projects. Y
• [when Tomlin was asked how she felt when ‘Ellen Degeneres’ came out as a lesbian] “I felt jealous. Because I’d been around much longer, and I’m gay. I admired her but at the same time, I thought, ‘oh, darn it! I wish that that had been me. I would have liked to have left that legacy.’ So I’m extremely proud of her. When I say I was jealous, I was jealous in a good way. I thought it was an extraordinary moment”.
• Just remember. We’re all in this alone.
• [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.
• Reality is a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.
• 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.
• 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.
• If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.
• [when asked about her complexion during her career at Laugh-In (1967)] “I’ve never had a pimple in my whole life – and that’s the truth”.
• The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
• Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
• I remember back in the 70s during my really assertive days someone took me to dinner with Lola Falana. And she was talking about her backup dancers; she kept calling them her “boy dancers” so my guard was already up. Then she said “I also like John. He’s a real purse nelly”. I said “Excuse me? What did you just say”. I was ready to go to battle. “You know,” she says in her thick accent. “Purse Nelly! Pursnelly!” Then I realized she was saying he had a good personality.
• I’ve been around a long time, and I interviewed with a lot of the same people over and over. I was always direct and open about my life. I would always reference Jane [Wagner] and everything, but they never choose to write about it that way — just like they never wrote about Jack Kennedy and the women in the swimming pool. It was the times, but the media culture has changed.
• There will be sex after death – we just won’t be able to feel it.

Mary Jean “Lily” Tomlin Important Facts

• Was born the same day the United States entered World War II.
• “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.
• Best friends with Jane Fonda.
• Is one of 26 actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination for their performance in a musical; hers being Nashville (1975). The others, in chronological order, are: Bessie Love (The Broadway Melody (1929)), Grace Moore (One Night of Love (1934)), Jean Hagen (Singin’ in the Rain (1952)), Marjorie Rambeau (Torch Song (1953)), Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones (1954)), Deborah Kerr (The King and I (1956)), Rita Moreno (West Side Story (1961)), Gladys Cooper (My Fair Lady (1964)), Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), and Victor Victoria (1982)), Debbie Reynolds (The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)), Peggy Wood (The Sound of Music (1965)), Carol Channing (Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)), Kay Medford (Funny Girl (1968)), Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl (1968)), Liza Minnelli (Cabaret (1972)), Ronee Blakley (Nashville (1975)), Ann-Margret (Tommy (1975)), Lesley Ann Warren (Victor Victoria (1982)), Amy Irving (Yentl (1983)), Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge! (2001)), Queen Latifah (Chicago (2002)), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago (2002)), Renée Zellweger (Chicago (2002)), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls (2006)), Penelope Cruz (Nine (2009)), Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables (2012)), and Meryl Streep (Into the Woods (2014)).
• She was originally set to play Olive Oyl in Popeye (1980), opposite Dustin Hoffman in the title role. Shelley Duvall eventually played the role opposite Robin Williams.
• A recipient of the 2014 Kennedy Center Honors. Other recipients this year were Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, and Sting.
• (December 31, 2013) Married her girlfriend of 42 years Jane Wagner. They met in March 1971.
• (25 May 1999) Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada – guest speaker for Exceptional Experiences lecture series. [May 1999]
• Nominated in the Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series, “Eastbound & Down”, at The Women’s Image Network (WIN) Awards 2012.
• 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.
• She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
• With Meryl Streep presented Robert Altman with his honorary Oscar on March 5th, 2006 at the 78th Academy Awards ceremony.
• Has won two Tony Awards: in 1977, a special Award, and in 1986, the Best Actress (Play) Award for her one-woman show, “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,” a performance recreated in the film version of the same title, The Search for Signs of Inteligent Life in the Universe (1991).
• Won the Kennedy Center’s prestigious Mark Twain Prize for Humor in 2003.
• Won a Grammy Award for the comedy album “This is a Recording” in 1971 and won Tony Awards in 1977 and 1986.
• During her one-woman show in Las Vegas, Nevada, she appeared as her own opening act: a smarmy male lounge singer billed as Tommy Velour.
• Before a performance of one of her one-woman shows in New York City, she appeared on the sidewalk dressed in a Red Cross nurse’s uniform, handing out cups of coffee to those waiting in line to enter the theatre.
• Acknowledged that she has been in a romantic relationship with Jane Wagner since 1971.
• Studied acting under Charles Nelson Reilly, who introduced her to the works of monologist Ruth Draper, a major inspiration for Tomlin’s work.
• Was to star in a film called Illegitimate around 1980 but the film was never made. [Originally reported in “Playboy” magazine].
• 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.
• Listed as one of twelve “Promising New Actors of 1977” in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 29.
• She gave away genuine locks of her hair as a bonus for buyers of her home video library in 1993.
• Studied mime with Paul Curtis.
• Was a pre-med student at Wayne State University before choosing acting as a career.

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