Is Lily Tomlin gay? Who is Tomlin married to? Learn all there is to know.
Lily Tomlin is best known as an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin started her career in stand-up comedy and sketch comedy before transitioning her career as an actress on stage and screen.
In a career spanning over fifty years, Tomlin has received numerous accolades including seven Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and two Tony Awards. She was also awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014 and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2017. Her widespread success spanning over so many years has earned her a loyal fanbase, who often ask if the actress is gay – or if she is married to someone. As it turns out, we have all the answers.
As it turns out, Tomlin is both gay as well as married. Tomlin met her future wife, writer Jane Wagner, in March 1971. After watching the after-school TV special J.T. written by Wagner, Tomlin invited Wagner to Los Angeles to collaborate on Tomlin’s comedy LP album And That’s The Truth. The couple did not have a formal coming out.
Tomlin stated in 2008, “Everybody in the industry was certainly aware of my sexuality and of Jane … in interviews, I always reference Jane and talk about Jane, but they don’t always write about it.” In 2015, Tomlin said, “I wasn’t totally forthcoming. Everybody in the business knew I was gay, and certainly everybody I worked with and everything like that.”
When did Lisa Tomlin and Jane Wagner get married?
On December 31, 2013, Tomlin and Wagner married in a private ceremony in Los Angeles after 42 years together.
Tomlin has been involved in a number of feminist and gay-friendly film productions, and on her 1975 album Modern Scream she pokes fun at straight actors who make a point of distancing themselves from their gay and lesbian characters—answering the pseudo-interview question, she replies: “How did it feel to play a heterosexual? I’ve seen these women all my life, I know how they walk, I know how they talk …”
In 2013, Tomlin and Wagner worked together on the film An Apology to Elephants, which Wagner wrote and Tomlin narrated.
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