In 2019, the Golden Globes named an award after her for career achievement in television, the Carol Burnett Award, and Burnett received her first award. She acted in the AMC drama Better Call Saul (2022).īurnett has written and narrated several memoirs, earning Grammy nominations for almost all of them, including a win for In Such Good Company. She returned to the Broadway stage in 1995 in Moon Over Buffalo, receiving another Tony Award nomination. She has also given performances in the dramas 6 Rms Riv Vu (1974) and Friendly Fire (1979) in guest roles such as in Mad About You, for which she won an Emmy Award and in various specials with Julie Andrews, Dolly Parton, and Beverly Sills. Her film roles include Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), The Front Page (1974), A Wedding (1978), The Four Seasons (1981), Annie (1982), Noises Off (1992) and Horton Hears a Who! (2008). During and after her variety show, Burnett appeared in many television and film projects. Burnett created many memorable characters during the show's run, and both she and the show won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. The comedy sketches included film parodies and character pieces. With its vaudeville roots, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show that combined comedy sketches with song and dance. īurnett moved to Los Angeles and began an 11-year run as star of The Carol Burnett Show on CBS television from 1967 to 1978. Burnett had her television special debut in 1963 when she starred as Calamity Jane in the Dallas State Fair Musicals production of Calamity Jane on CBS. She soon made her television debut, regularly appearing on The Garry Moore Show for the next three years, and won her first Emmy Award in 1962. Later she performed in nightclubs in New York City and had a breakout success on Broadway in 1959 in Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She attended Hollywood High School and eventually studied theater and musical comedy at UCLA. īorn and raised in San Antonio, Texas, her family moved to California where she lived in the Hollywood area. Burnett was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2013 and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2015. She has received numerous accolades including six Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, a Grammy Award, and seven Golden Globe Awards. She has performed on stage, television and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedic roles.
Her groundbreaking comedy variety show The Carol Burnett Show, which originally aired on CBS, was one of the first to be hosted by a woman. Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer.
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