Carol Burnett Biography

Carol Burnett was born April 26, 1933 and is an American
actress, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New
York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she made her television debut. After
successful appearances on The Garry Moore Show, Carol moved to Los Angeles and
began an eleven-year run on The Carol Burnett Show which was aired on CBS
television from 1967 to 1978. With roots in vaudeville, The Carol Burnett Show
was a variety show which combined comedy sketches, song, and dance. The comedy
sketches included film parodies and character pieces. Burnett created many
endearing characters during the shows television run.

Burnett starred in a few films while her variety show was running, including
Pete n Tillie (1972). After the show ended, Burnett assumed a number of roles
that departed from comedy. She appeared in several dramatic roles, most notably
in the television movie Friendly Fire. She appeared as Beatrice OReilly in the
film Life of The Party: The Story of Beatrice, a story about a woman fighting
her alcoholism. Her other film work includes The Four Seasons, Annie, and
Noises Off. She also returned to star in a different role as Queen Aggravain in
the movie version of Once Upon a Mattress.

Burnett also made occasional returns to the stage: in 1974,
she appeared at The Muny Theater in St. Louis, Missouri in I Do! I Do! with
Rock Hudson and eleven years later, she took the supporting role of Carlotta
Campion in the 1985 concert performance of Stephen Sondheims Follies.

Burnett made frequent appearances as a panelist on the game
show Password, an association she maintained until the early 1980s. She was
also the first celebrity to appear on the childrens series, Sesame Street, on
that series first episode on November 10, 1969.

In the 1980s and 1990s, she made several attempts at
starting a new variety program. She also appeared briefly on The Carol Burnett
Shows The Family sketches spinoff, Mamas Family, as her stormy
character, Eunice Higgins. She played the matriarch in the cult comedy
miniseries Fresno, which parodied the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest. She
returned to TV in the mid-1990s as a supporting character on the sitcom Mad
About You, playing Theresa Stemple, the mother of main character Jamie Buchman
(Helen Hunt).

Burnett has long been a fan of the soap opera All My
Children. She realized a dream when Agnes Nixon created the role of Verla
Grubbs for her. Burnett suddenly found herself playing the long-lost daughter
of Langley Wallingford (Louis Edmonds) and causing trouble for her stepmother
Phoebe Tyler-Wallingford (Ruth Warrick). She hosted a 25th anniversary special
about the show in 1995 and made a brief cameo appearance as Verla Grubbs on the
January 5, 2005 episode which celebrated the shows 35th anniversary. It was
announced in June that Burnett will reprise her role as Grubbs in September
2011 as part of the series finale.

In 2008, she had her second role as an animated character,
in Horton Hears a Who!. Her first was in The Trumpet of the Swan. In 2009, she
made a guest appearance on the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, for which
she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama
Series. In November 2010, she guest starred on an episode of Glee as
cheerleading coach Sue Sylvesters mother.

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