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

Film


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]
1992	The Player	Herself		^[1]
1993	The Beverly Hillbillies	Miss Jane Hathaway		^[1]
1993	Short Cuts	Doreen Piggot		^[1]
1995	Blue in the Face	Waffle Eater		^[1]
1995	The Celluloid Closet	Narrator	Voice	^[1]
1996	Getting Away with Murder	Inga Mueller		^[1]
1996	Flirting with Disaster	Mary Schlichting		^[1]
1998	Krippendorf's Tribe	Professor Ruth Allen		^[1]
1999	Get Bruce	Herself	Documentary
1999	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]
2006	The Ant Bully	Mommo	Voice	^[2]
2007	The Walker	Abigail DeLorean		^[1]
2009	The Pink Panther 2	Mrs. Yvette Berenger		^[1]
2009	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


Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1966–67	The Garry Moore Show	Regular	Unknown episodes
1969	Letters to Laugh-In	Panelist
1969	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	Herself	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	Herself	Television special
1976–77	Saturday Night Live	Host / Ernestine / Various	4 episodes
1977	The Paul Simon Special	Herself	Television special
1977	Lily Tomlin in Appearing Nitely	Herself	Television special
1979–83	Sesame Street	Edith Ann	3 episodes
1981	Lily: Sold Out	Herself	Television special
1982	Lily for President?		Television special
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	6 episodes
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


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	The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe	Performer / Various	Jane Wagner	Booth Theatre, Broadway	^[5]

Discography

Albums

Year	Album	Billboard 200 ^[6]	Label
1972	This Is A Recording	15	Polydor Records
1972	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

References

^ ^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.

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[btva-2] "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.

[3] "Appearing Nitely (Broadway)". Playbill. Retrieved April 7, 2024.

[4] "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Broadway, 1985)". Playbill. Retrieved April 7, 2024.

[5] "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Broadway, 2000)". Playbill. Retrieved April 7, 2024.

[6] "Lily Tomlin - Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2015.

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