Lily Tomlin

In 2003 she won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Her credits include:. Tomlin was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2001 she returned to the stage to play Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre. Actually, Tomlin frequently referred to Wagner, but avoided saying point-blank that she herself was, in fact, gay. Since then she has starred in a number of films including The Land Girls (1998), About a Boy (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003). Tomlin came out in 2000 on the New York City cable-access TV program Gay USA. Having already worked for television, Weisz started her cinema career in 1996 with Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty.

In fact, many of her fans are unaware of her sexual orientation. Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Though Tomlin is now open about being lesbian, the media doesn't focus on this aspect of her personal life. During her college years she already appeared in various student productions, mainly as part of Cambridge Footlights. Tomlin revived the show for a brief run in 2000. Weisz read English Literature at Cambridge. The show won Tomlin a Tony Award. Both her mother and her father are Jewish and, in the late 1930s, were brought from Vienna and Hungary respectively to England to escape persecution by the Nazis.

Tomlin starred in the 1985 hit one-woman Broadway show The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, written by her long-time romantic partner, Jane Wagner. Rachel Weisz (pronounced "vice") is a British actress who was born in London on March 7, 1971. Tomlin currently plays presidential assistant Deborah Fiderer on the TV show The West Wing. Stealing Beauty (1996). Frizzle for the Magic School Bus cartoon series (1994-1997). The Land Girls (1998). Tomlin also voiced of the character of Ms. The Mummy (1999).

For example, she played Linnea Reese, a strait-laced mother of two deaf children who has an affair with a country singer played by Keith Carradine, in Nashville; secretary Violet Newstead in Nine to Five; and a sickly heiress in All of Me. Beautiful Creatures (2000). Tomlin is noted for her wide range. Enemy at the Gates (2001). AT&T offered Tomlin $500,000 to film a commercial using her character Ernestine, but Tomlin turned the offer down because she thought the commercial would compromise her artistic integrity. The Mummy Returns (2001). Tomlin joined the Laugh-In cast in 1969. About a Boy (2002).

After college, Tomlin began doing stand-up comedy in Detroit nightclubs. Runaway Jury (2003). Tomlin attended Wayne State University, where her interest in the theater and performing arts began. Tomlin was the daughter of a factory worker and a housewife who moved to Detroit from Paducah, Kentucky during the Great Depression. Have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?") and the bratty five-year-old Edith Ann, rocking in her oversized rocking chair and making rude noises (famous for her line "And that's the truth!").

She first became well-known for her character skits on television's Laugh-In, in which she created several indelible characters that have stayed with her and become associated with her throughout her career, including the gum-chewing, wisecracking, snorting telephone operator Ernestine (famous for her lines "One ringy dingy, two ringy dingy" and "A gracious good morning to you .. Lily Tomlin (born Mary Jean Tomlin on September 1, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan), is an American actress and comedian.