See photos of the actress ahead of her SAG Life Achievement Award honor
Lily Tomlin Through the Years
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Lily Tomlin on Laugh-In in 1971
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Lily Tomlin on March 29, 1971
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Lily Tomlin on Her Television Special Lily on October 22, 1973
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Lily Tomlin at the 26th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on May 28, 1974
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Lily Tomlin on Saturday Night Live on September 18, 1976
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Lily Tomlin With Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, and Laraine Newman on Saturday Night Live on February 26, 1977
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Lily Tomlin at an Equal Rights Amendment Event in Beverly Hills in 1978
Lily Tomlin With Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda in 9 to 5 in 1980
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Lily Tomlin at the 33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on September 13, 1981
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Lily Tomlin With Steve Martin in All of Me in 1984
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Lily Tomlin With Jane Wagner at the Plymouth Theater in New York in 1986
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Lily Tomlin With Bette Midler and Lucille Ball in Los Angeles on May 29, 1987
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Lily Tomlin on the Oprah Winfrey Show on September 6, 1989
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Lily Tomlin With Joel Grey at the 45th Annual Tony Awards in New York City on June 2, 1991
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Lily Tomlin With Jay Leno on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on July 23, 1992
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Lily Tomlin With Jodie Foster at the 20th Annual Women in Film Crystal Awards on June 21, 1996
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Lily Tomlin With Murphy Brown's Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Charles Kimbrough, and Joe Regalbuto in 1997
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Lily Tomlin With Jane Wagner at the Tony Nominees Brunch in New York on May 16, 2001
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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
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Lily Tomlin at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on October 23, 2005
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Lily Tomlin With Martin Sheen and John Spencer on The West Wing on December 11, 2005
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Lily Tomlin at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on September 21, 2008
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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
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Lily Tomlin at the Winter TCA Press Tour in Pasadena, California on January 8, 2011
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Lily Tomlin at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood on July 28, 2012
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Lily Tomlin With Jane Fonda at the 2013 Women's Media Awards in New York City on October 8, 2013
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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
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Lily Tomlin at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on January 27, 2015
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Lily Tomlin at the Television Academy's 70th Anniversary Gala in Los Angeles on June 2, 2016
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