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09-04-2016, 07:33 PM
https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/09/01/september-1-happy-birthday-gloria-estefan-and-lily-tomlin/
The multi-talented Lily Tomlin celebrates her 77th birthday today. Tomlin became known when she joined the cast of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, one of the greatest of sketch comedy series, for its third season. Tomlin, known to fans of the show for characters such as Ernestine the telephone operator, five-year-old Edith Ann, and the Tasteful Lady, is possibly the most successful alum of the show. In 1975, she showed her range as an actress in the dramatic role of Linnea Reese, a white gospel singer who is part of a black choir, and who has two deaf children, in Robert Altman’s Nashville:
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Over the last 40 years Tomlin has received acting accolades for films like All of Me, Flirting with Disaster and A Prairie Home Companion (to name just a few). She won a Tony for her one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (written by her longtime partner and now wife Jane Wagner), and has won several Emmys for writing and performing in various comedy/variety/musical specials and series.
The multi-talented Lily Tomlin celebrates her 77th birthday today. Tomlin became known when she joined the cast of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, one of the greatest of sketch comedy series, for its third season. Tomlin, known to fans of the show for characters such as Ernestine the telephone operator, five-year-old Edith Ann, and the Tasteful Lady, is possibly the most successful alum of the show. In 1975, she showed her range as an actress in the dramatic role of Linnea Reese, a white gospel singer who is part of a black choir, and who has two deaf children, in Robert Altman’s Nashville:
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Over the last 40 years Tomlin has received acting accolades for films like All of Me, Flirting with Disaster and A Prairie Home Companion (to name just a few). She won a Tony for her one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (written by her longtime partner and now wife Jane Wagner), and has won several Emmys for writing and performing in various comedy/variety/musical specials and series.