Carol Burnett

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Carol Burnett, 2005

Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933 in San Antonio , Texas ) is an American actress and multiple Emmy and Golden Globe award winner.

Life and accomplishments

Carol Burnett graduated from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television without a regular degree. In the early 1950s she made her debut on the television show The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show . From 1956 to 1957 she played the role of Celia in the television series Stanley . In 1960, she hosted her own The Carol Burnett Show . In the comedy film Who slept in my bed? played Burnett in 1963 on the side of Dean Martin and Elizabeth Montgomery . From 1967 to 1978 she again hosted The Carol Burnett Show . Previously, she starred alongside leading actress Lucille Ball in Oops Lucy! in four episodes her comedic talent to an audience of millions.

In 1979 Burnett starred in the television drama To Die fürs Vaterland, alongside Ned Beatty . In 1981 she starred alongside Alan Alda in the hit comedy Four Seasons . The film was one of the ten most successful productions in US cinema that year. Burnett received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. In 1983 she played one of the two leading roles alongside Elizabeth Taylor in the television drama Girlfriends for Life . From 1996 to 1999 she appeared on the television series Crazy About You . In 1998 she played the leading female role alongside Walter Matthau in the television comedy Papa's second spring .

Private

Burnett married actor Don Saroyan in 1955 and divorced in 1962, represented by attorney Harry E. Claiborne . In 1963 she married producer Joe Hamilton , who produced The Carol Burnett Show , among other things . She has three children with him; the marriage was divorced in 1984. In 2001 she married the composer Brian Miller.

Burnett's eldest daughter, Carrie Hamilton, died on January 20, 2002 of complications from lung cancer and a brain tumor. She was 38 years old. Burnett had in Carrie's youth, after she had become a drug addict as a teenager, publicly expressed himself increasingly on the addiction problem of adolescents. She coined the sentence: "You have to love your children enough to bear that they temporarily hate you."

Carol Burnett is the godmother of actress Emma Walton , daughter of her friend Julie Andrews .

honors and awards

  • 1968, 1970, 1972, 1977 and 1978 winner of a Golden Globe Award for The Carol Burnett Show
  • 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1979 nominations for a Golden Globe Award for The Carol Burnett Show
  • Winner of an Emmy Award for The Carol Burnett Show in 1972 and 1974
  • 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977 and 1978 nominations for an Emmy Award for The Carol Burnett Show
  • 1979 nomination for an Emmy Award for her role in Die Fürs Vaterland
  • 1982 nomination for a Golden Globe for her leading role in the comedy Four Seasons
  • In 1984 she won a CableACE Award for her lead role in the television drama Girlfriends for Life
  • 1997 and 1998 winner of an American Comedy Award for appearances on the television series Crazy About You
  • 1999 American Comedy Award winner for her lead role in the television comedy Papa's Second Spring
  • 2005 gave US President George W. Bush Burnett, the Medal of Freedom ( "The Presidential Medal of Freedom"), the highest civilian honor in the United States.
  • In 2009 she received her 23rd Emmy nomination for her guest appearance on the episode: Persona of the television series Law & Order: New York .
  • Burnett also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
  • 2013: Mark Twain Prize for her humorous work.
  • 2015: Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
  • 2017: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2019: First recipient of the Carol Burnett Awards named after her, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Filmography (selection)

  • 1956–1957: Stanley (TV series, 14 episodes)
  • 1963: Who slept in my bed? (Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?)
  • 1967–1978: The Carol Burnett Show (TV show)
  • 1972: Peter and Tillie (Pete 'N' Tillie)
  • 1974: Extrablatt (The Front Page)
  • 1978: The Wedding (A Wedding)
  • 1982: Annie
  • 1979: To die for the fatherland (Friendly Fire)
  • 1981: The Four Seasons
  • 1983: Girlfriends for Life (Between Friends)
  • 1986: Fresno (miniseries)
  • 1992: Noises Off! - The naked madness (Noises Off ...)
  • 1996-1999: Mad About You ( Mad About You , television series)
  • 1998: Papa's Second Spring (The Marriage Fool)
  • 2006: Desperate Housewives (TV series)
  • 2008: Horton hears a who! ( Horton hears a Who ! , voice of the kangaroo)
  • 2009: (dream) job wanted (post degree)
  • 2010: Glee (TV series, guest appearance season 2, episode 8)
  • 2013–2014, 2016: Hawaii Five-0 (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • since 2018: A Little Help with Carol Burnett (12 episodes so far)

literature

  • Susan Horowitz: Queens of Comedy. Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers and the New Generation of Funny Women (=  Studies in Humor and Gender . Volume 2 ). Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam et al. 1997, ISBN 2-88449-243-7 , pp. 65 ff . (English).

Web links

Commons : Carol Burnett  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horace Newcomb: Encyclopedia of Television. Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-135-19472-7 , p. 364 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1981&p=.htm
  3. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082405/awards?ref_=tt_awd
  4. ^ Carol Burnett awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Burnett, Carol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burnett, Carol Creighton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio , Texas , United States