Comedienne Lily Tomlin (b. 1939) first gained national fame on television where she appeared regularly from 1969 through 1973 in the comedy Laugh-In, portraying the goofily caustic telephone operator Ernestine and the plucky five-and-a-half-year-old philosopher Edith Ann.
Since then, Tomlin has enjoyed success as a film and television actress, but her first love has been her one-woman comedy shows, which she has performed as television specials and on Broadway and other stages.