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Also Known As	Mary Jean Tomlin
Born	September 1, 1939 (age 85) • Detroit • Michigan
Awards And Honors	Tony Awards • Emmy Award • Grammy Award • Kennedy Center Honors (2014) • Emmy Award (2013): Outstanding Voice-Over Performance • Emmy Award (1981): Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Program • Emmy Award (1978): Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special • Emmy Award (1976): Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special • Emmy Award (1974): Outstanding Comedy-Variety, Variety, or Music Special • Emmy Award (1974): Best Writing in Comedy-Variety, Variety, or Music • Grammy Award (1972): Best Comedy Recording • Tony Award (1986): Best Actress in a Play
Married To	Jane Wagner (2013–present)
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In)	"Flirting with Disaster" (1996) • "The Magic School Bus" (1994–1997) • "Admission" (2013) • "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1996) • "Our Time" (1983) • "Blue in the Face" (1995) • "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981) • "The Madness Within" (2019) • "The Ant Bully" (2006) • "Grandma" (2015) • "The Player" (1992) • "Damages" (2010) • "Laugh-In" (1969–1973) • "Eastbound & Down" (2012) • "Sesame Street" (1976–1988) • "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1993) • "The Electric Company" (1972) • "Desperate Housewives" (2008–2009) • "Krippendorf's Tribe" (1998) • "Frasier" (1994) • "The Simpsons" (2005) • "Web Therapy" (2011–2015) • "Will & Grace" (2005–2006) • "Nashville" (1975) • "All of Me" (1984) • "Tea with Mussolini" (1999) • "The Search for Signs of Inteligent Life in the Universe" (1991) • "The Late Show" (1977) • "The Magic School Bus Rides Again" (2017–2018) • "Murphy Brown" (1996–1998) • "The Walker" (2007) • "Moment by Moment" (1978) • "Ponyo" (2008) • "I Heart Huckabees" (2004) • "Shadows and Fog" (1991) • "Big Business" (1988) • "A Prairie Home Companion" (2006) • "The X Files" (1998) • "Short Cuts" (1993) • "Web Therapy" (2012–2014) • "Nine to Five" (1980) • "12 Miles of Bad Road" (2008) • "Saturday Night Live" (1977) • "Orange County" (2002) • "Malibu Country" (2012–2013) • "The West Wing" (2002–2006) • "The Kid" (2000) • "Getting Away with Murder" (1996) • "Pryor's Place" (1984) • "NCIS" (2011) • "The Pink Panther 2" (2009) • "Grace and Frankie" (2015–2020) • "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" (2018)