Lily Tomlin is known for her various roles (as Ernestine, the telephone operator, as Edith Ann, and as others) on the NBC TV variety show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968-1973)".

She played Edith Ann (1976, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1986, 1988) on the children TV show "Sesame Street (NET: 1969-1970, PBS: 1970-2016, HBO: 2016-)", Kay Carter-Shepley (1996-1998) on the CBS TV sitcom "Murphy Brown (1988-1998)", Deborah Fiderer (2002-2006) on the NBC TV show "The West Wing (1999-2006)", Putsy Hodge on the Showtime TV show "Web Therapy (2011-2015)", Lillie Mae on the ABC TV sitcom "Malibu Country (2012-2013)" and Frankie Bergstein on the Netflix web TV show "Grace and Frankie (2015-)".

Some other TV shows she appeared on are "The Electric Company", "Saturday Night Live", "Our Time", "Frasier", "Homicide: Life on the Street", "The X-Files", "Will & Grace", "12 Miles of Bad Road", "Desperate Housewives", "Damages", "NCIS" and "Eastbound & Down".

She played Violet Newstead in the movie "9 to 5 (1980)" and Edwina Cutwater in "All of Me (1984)".

Some other movies she appeared in are_"Nashville (1975)", _"The Late Show (1977)", "Moment by Moment (1978)", "The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)", "Big Business (1988)", "The Search for Signs of Inteligent Life in the Universe (1991)", "Shadows and Fog (1991)", "The Player (1992)", "Short Cuts (1993)", "And the Band Played On (1993)", "The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)", "Growing Up Funny (1994)", "Blue in the Face (1995)", "Flirting with Disaster (1996)", "Getting Away with Murder (1996)", "Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)", "Tea with Mussolini (1999)", "The Kid (2000)", "Orange County (2002)", "I Heart Huckabees (2004)", "A Prairie Home Companion (2006)", "The Walker (2007)", "The Pink Panther 2 (2009)", "Admission (2013)", "Grandma (2015)", "The Madness Within (2019)", "Moving On (2022)", "80 for Brady (2023)" and "The Road Home (2023)".

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