Carol Burnett

Burnett’s career spans six decades. She is best known for her long-running TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, for CBS. She has achieved success on stage, television, and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles. Burnett's breakthrough success came with her appearance on Broadway in the 1959 musical Once Upon a Mattress, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Her notable film roles include Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), The Four Seasons (1981), Annie (1982), Noises Off (1992), and Horton Hears a Who! (2008). She published her autobiography, One More Time (1986). Burnett has won six Emmy awards and five Golden Globe awards. In 2003, she received the Kennedy Center Honors, she is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Humor, the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award,  and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005).