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Acting

Lily Tomlin

Career: Active from 1969 to 2023, busiest in 1996 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 25
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 54 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Lily Tomlin Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Violence
2.1, average 4.1
Adrenaline
2.9, average 4.8
Tension
4.2, average 6.0
Scare
1.0, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 6
Social Commentary 6
Contemporary Realism 4
Family 3
Nostalgic 3
Coming-of-Age 3
Quirky Characters 3
Absurdist Humor 3
Political Commentary 2
Educational 2
Thought-Provoking 2
Complex Characters 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

74

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

5 titles · average score 59

Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20

as Violet Newstead (archive footage)

80 for Brady

58

as Lou

Moving On

62

as Evelyn

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

as Ayn Rand (voice)

Radium Girls

58

Executive Producer

2010s

12 titles · average score 69

I Am Richard Pryor

78

Thanks

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

89

as Aunt May (voice)

Grace and Frankie

77

TV show · as Frankie Bergstein

Grandma

75

as Elle

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

65

TV show

Admission

46

as Susannah

An Apology to Elephants

79

as Narrator (voice)

Inequality for All

80

as Violet Newstead (archive footage)

Malibu Country

47

TV show · as Lillie Mae MacKenzie

The Procession

as Jason's mom

Stars in Shorts

51

as Jason's Mom

Web Therapy

67

TV show · as Putsy Hodge

2000s

13 titles · average score 63

Eastbound & Down

81

TV show · as Tammy Powers

The Pink Panther 2

39

as Mrs. Berenger

Web Therapy

74

TV show · as Putsy Hodge

The Walker

43

as Abigail Delorean

Damages

83

TV show · as Marilyn Tobin

A Prairie Home Companion

72

as Rhonda Johnson

The Ant Bully

56

as Mommo (voice)

I ♥ Huckabees

63

as Vivian Jaffe

Desperate Housewives

76

TV show · as Roberta Simmons

NCIS

64

TV show · as Penelope Langston

Orange County

54

as Charlotte Cobb

The Kid

53

as Janet

1990s

25 titles · average score 69

Tea with Mussolini

64

as Georgina "Georgie" Rockwell

The West Wing

83

TV show · as Deborah Fiderer

Krippendorf's Tribe

28

as Ruth Allen

Will & Grace

76

TV show · as Margot

The Celluloid Closet

88

as Narrator (voice)

Getting Away with Murder

19

as Inga Mueller

Flirting with Disaster

76

as Mary Schlichting

The Magic School Bus

81

TV show · as Ms. Frizzle (voice)

The Beverly Hillbillies

41

as Miss Jane Hathaway

Short Cuts

84

as Doreen Piggot

The X-Files

76

TV show · as Lydia

Frasier

85

TV show · as Rita (voice)

1980s

8 titles · average score 64

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Tammy (voice)

Big Business

59

as Rose Ratliff / Rose Shelton

Murphy Brown

67

TV show · as Kay Carter-Shepley

All of Me

71

as Edwina Cutwater

Lily for President?

as Lily Tomlin / Various

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

40

as Pat Kramer / Judith Beasley / Telephone Operator

Lily: Sold Out

Executive Producer

Nine to Five

65

as Violet Newstead

1970s

9 titles · average score 67

Moment by Moment

25

as Trisha Rawlings

The Late Show

82

as Margo

The Paul Simon Special

Writer

TVTV Looks at the Oscars

as Judy Beasley/Self

Nashville

85

as Linnea Reese

Lily

Writer

Juke and Opal

as Opal

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

67

as Telephone Voice (voice) (uncredited)

The Electric Company

75

TV show · as Ernestine the Operator

1960s

2 titles · average score 74

The Music Scene

TV show

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

74

TV show · as Regular Performer