Lily Tomlin Through the Years
See photos of the actress ahead of her SAG Life Achievement Award honor
By Madeline Boardman Updated January 26, 2017 at 10:00 AM EST
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Lily Tomlin Through the Years
LILY TOMLIN
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Lily Tomlin will be honored with the SAG Life Achievement Award Sunday, when the 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards kick off in Los Angeles. The famed entertainer boasts more than 50 years in Hollywood, including Emmy-winning turns in Lily, The Lily Tomlin Special, The Paul Simon Special, and An Apology to Elephants. Tomlin also has a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and an Academy Award nomination to her name. See photos of the beloved actress through the years, ahead.
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Lily Tomlin on Laugh-In in 1971
Vogue 1971
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Lily Tomlin on March 29, 1971
Polka Dot Lily
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Lily Tomlin on Her Television Special Lily on October 22, 1973
Lily Tomlin In 'Lily'
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Lily Tomlin at the 26th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on May 28, 1974
Lily Tomlin At The Emmy Awards
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Lily Tomlin on Saturday Night Live on September 18, 1976
Saturday Night Live
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Lily Tomlin With Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, and Laraine Newman on Saturday Night Live on February 26, 1977
Saturday Night Live
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Lily Tomlin at an Equal Rights Amendment Event in Beverly Hills in 1978
Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin With Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda in 9 to 5 in 1980
9 To 5 Stars
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Lily Tomlin at the 33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on September 13, 1981
33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
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Lily Tomlin With Steve Martin in All of Me in 1984
ALL OF ME, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, 1984, (c)Universal/courtesy Everett Collection
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Lily Tomlin With Jane Wagner at the Plymouth Theater in New York in 1986
Lily Tomlin And Jane Wagner
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Lily Tomlin With Bette Midler and Lucille Ball in Los Angeles on May 29, 1987
Bette Midler, Lucille Ball And Lilly Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin on the Oprah Winfrey Show on September 6, 1989
Lily Tomlin On The Oprah Winfrey
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Lily Tomlin With Joel Grey at the 45th Annual Tony Awards in New York City on June 2, 1991
45th Annual Tony Awards
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Lily Tomlin With Jay Leno on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on July 23, 1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - Season 1
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Lily Tomlin With Jodie Foster at the 20th Annual Women in Film Crystal Awards on June 21, 1996
20th Annual Women in Film Crystal Awards
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Lily Tomlin With Murphy Brown's Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Charles Kimbrough, and Joe Regalbuto in 1997
Murphy Brown
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Lily Tomlin With Jane Wagner at the Tony Nominees Brunch in New York on May 16, 2001
Lily Tomlin (R) and Jane Wagner (L) hold up the To
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Lily Tomlin With Jane Fonda at the Laughter is the Best Medicine Gala in Universal City, California on May 12, 2004
Valley Community Clinic Honors Lily Tomlin at Laughter is the Best Medicine Gala
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Lily Tomlin at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on October 23, 2005
Kennedy Center Salutes "Mark Twain Prize" Recipient, Steve Martin
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Lily Tomlin With Martin Sheen and John Spencer on The West Wing on December 11, 2005
The West Wing
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Lily Tomlin at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on September 21, 2008
60th Primetime Emmy Awards - Show
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Lily Tomlin at Her Show Not Playing With a Full Deck at the Hollywood Theatre at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on November 11, 2009
Lily Tomlin Performs At The MGM Grand In Las Vegas
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Lily Tomlin at the Winter TCA Press Tour in Pasadena, California on January 8, 2011
2011 Winter TCA Tour - Day 4
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Lily Tomlin at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood on July 28, 2012
"Sexy Liberal Tour" - Los Angeles Performance
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Lily Tomlin With Jane Fonda at the 2013 Women's Media Awards in New York City on October 8, 2013
2013 Women's Media Awards
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Lily Tomlin With Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Sting, and President Barack Obama at the 27th Annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. on December 7, 2014
37th Annual Kennedy Center Honors
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Lily Tomlin at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on January 27, 2015
2015 Sundance Film Festival Portraits - Day 5
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Lily Tomlin at the Television Academy's 70th Anniversary Gala in Los Angeles on June 2, 2016
Television Academy's 70th Anniversary Gala - Red Carpet
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