Lily Tomlin filmography
This list is an article of Lily Tomlin's filmography
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
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers | Telephone Voice | Uncredited | |
| 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 | Narrator | Voice | [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 | Herself | Documentary | |
| 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 | Mommo | Voice | [2] | |
| 2007 | The Walker | Abigail DeLorean | [1] | |
| 2009 | The Pink Panther 2 | Mrs. Yvette Berenger | [1] | |
| Ponyo | Toki | Voice, English dub | [1] | |
| 2012 | Stars in Shorts | Mum | Segment: "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
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966–67 | The Garry Moore Show | Regular | Unknown episodes | |
| 1969 | Letters to Laugh-In | Panelist | ||
| The Music Scene | Hostess, Various characters | |||
| 1969–73 | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Various characters | Episode: "Guest Starring Peter Lawford Again" | |
| 1973 | Lily | Herself | Television special | |
| The Carol Burnett Show | Episode: "Steve Lawrence and Lily Tomlin" | |||
| The Electric Company | Ernestine | Episode: "Ernestine the Operator" | ||
| 1974 | Woman Alive! | Herself | Television special | |
| 1975 | The Lily Tomlin Special | |||
| 1976–77 | Saturday Night Live | Host / Ernestine / Various | 4 episodes | |
| 1977 | The Paul Simon Special | Herself | Television special | |
| Lily Tomlin in Appearing Nitely | ||||
| 1979–83 | Sesame Street | Edith Ann | 3 episodes | |
| 1981 | Lily: Sold Out | Herself | Television special | |
| 1982 | Lily for President? | |||
| 1984 | Pryor's Place | Episode: "Cousin Rita" | ||
| 1993 | And the Band Played On | Dr. Selma Dritz | HBO television film | |
| 1994 | Frasier | Rita | Voice, episode: "The Unkindest Cut of All" | [2] |
| 1994–97 | The Magic School Bus | Ms. Valerie "Val" Frizzle / The Frizz | Voice, main role | [2] |
| 1996 | Homicide: Life on the Street | Rose Halligan | Episode: The Hat | |
| 1996–98 | Murphy Brown | Kay Carter-Shepley | 46 episodes | |
| 1998 | The X-Files | Lyda | Episode: "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" | |
| 2000 | Bette | Herself | Episode: "Silent But Deadly" | |
| 2002–06 | The West Wing | Deborah Fiderer | 35 episodes | |
| 2005 | The Simpsons | Tammy | Voice, episode: "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" | |
| 2005–06 | Will & Grace | Margot | Episodes: "Partners" and "Forbidden Fruit" | |
| 2008 | 12 Miles of Bad Road | Amelia Shakespeare | 6 episodes | |
| 2008–09 | Desperate Housewives | Roberta Simonds | ||
| 2010 | Damages | Marilyn Tobin | 10 episodes | |
| 2011 | NCIS | Penelope Langston | Episode: "The Penelope Papers" | |
| 2011–15 | Web Therapy | Putsy Hodge | 15 episodes | |
| 2012 | Eastbound & Down | Tammy Powers | 3 episodes | |
| 2012–13 | Malibu Country | Lillie Mae | 18 episodes | |
| 2015–22 | Grace and Frankie | Frankie Bergstein | Main role; 94 episodes; also executive producer | |
| 2017–18 | The Magic School Bus Rides Again | Professor Frizzle | Voice; 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
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Playwright | Venue | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Appearing Nitely | Performer | Also 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
[edit]Albums
[edit]| Year | Album | Billboard 200 [6] |
Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | This Is A Recording | 15 | Polydor Records |
| And That's the Truth | 41 | ||
| 1975 | Modern Scream | — | |
| 1978 | On Stage | 120 | Arista Records |
| 2003 | 20th Century Masters: The Best of Lily Tomlin | — | Polydor Records |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab "Lily Tomlin - Turner Classic Movies". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "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.
- ^ "Appearing Nitely (Broadway)". Playbill. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
- ^ "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Broadway, 1985)". Playbill. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
- ^ "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Broadway, 2000)". Playbill. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
- ^ "Lily Tomlin - Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2015.