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Lily Tomlin: Robert Altman
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Lily Tomlin, one of America's foremost comedic entertainers, continues to add to her impressive body of work. She has enjoyed an extraordinary career spanning all facets of the entertainment industry including feature films, television and theatre. Tomlin made her film debut as Linnea, a gospel singer and mother of two 2 deaf children in Robert Altman's "Nashville" (1975). Her performance was so memorable that she was nominated for an Academy Award and voted Best Supporting Actress by both the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics.
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Tomlin made her television debut on The Garry Moore Show but didn't get her first real break until she became a regular on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In in 1970 and stayed through 1973. The series' machine gun pace proved the perfect outlet for Tomlin's offbeat humor and gave her the opportunity to hone her skills and develop her characters. She made an auspicious film debut with a touching dramatic role as a troubled gospel singer trying to deal with her hearing-impaired children and a womanizing Keith Carradine in Robert Altman's Nashville (1975), winning an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress and a New York Film Critics award for the same category.
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Tomlin arrives in Vancouver to speak as part of the Unique Lives & Experiences series. In a telephone interview from Nashville where she was helping her brother celebrate his birthday (and, by coincidence, speaking from the city whose name graced the 1975 Robert Altman film that garnered Tomlin an Oscar nomination), the actress addressed her work in Paul Schrader's The Walker.
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